Re: [Slightly OT] Shareware donation collection
Re: [Slightly OT] Shareware donation collection
- Subject: Re: [Slightly OT] Shareware donation collection
- From: Dave Thorup <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 11:57:03 -0500
On Feb 11, 2004, at 10:17 AM, Josh Ferguson wrote:
Everything is managed from your eSellerate Publisher account. You can
add or remove products, change SKU prices, track sales and customers,
manage returns (and fulfillment if you're shipping goods), set up
automatic CD fulfillment (which gives the customer the option to
purchase a CD with their software and we'll burn and ship the CD
ourselves), and quite a few other things that I won't list here ;). We
also offer an affiliate program and portals to increase your sales
channels. If you're worried about piracy, you can use our Product
Activation feature to tie a serial number to a specific machine, so
peopel can't just post your serial number on warez boards and register
your software as many times as they like.
Robert,
First, congratulations on finishing your app! ;) As for pursuing a
sales model for your app I fully recommend eSellerate. I am in no way
affiliated with Josh (quoted above) or eSellerate, I'm just a satisfied
developer that is using their system. Their target market is in
selling software and they do a very good job of it. They provide a lot
of tools that are geared towards selling software.
Some of the things that I really like:
- Customers can buy your application from within the product (It's as
easy as selecting "Buy..." from a menu or clicking on a button), there
is no need to purchase from the web. This purchasing process also
allows you to automatically download a serial number to your app when
it is bought so that the user doesn't need to enter it manually.
- Online web store - They'll create a professional online store for you.
- They have automatic serial number generation - They'll send an email
to the customer and to you, everything is automated.
- Everything can be managed through their web site.
- Support is pretty prompt - I send them email when I have problems and
usually get an answer within a few hours.
- Direct deposit - your payment can be directly deposited into your
bank account.
The only complaint that I have is that their payments lag a bit behind
the billing period. You get paid once a month, but the payment usually
comes 2-3 weeks after the billing period ends. But it is consistent
and they do always make the payment, so it doesn't matter much to me
that it takes a little while to come.
They provide all these services with no up front fees. Your only cost
is 10% of whatever you sell. (If you sell in large volume then this
percentage goes up to a max of 15%).
Again, I'm not affiliated with eSellerate, but I'm very happy with the
services they provide.
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Dave Thorup
Software Engineer
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http://www.kuwan.net
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