RE: [Slightly OT] Shareware donation collection
RE: [Slightly OT] Shareware donation collection
- Subject: RE: [Slightly OT] Shareware donation collection
- From: "Josh Ferguson" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 13:16:39 -0600
- Thread-topic: [Slightly OT] Shareware donation collection
I hate to continue this somewhat off topic thread, but I did want to respond to the billing issue. This is a very common mistake made by our publishers. The "billing period" that Dave mentioned is not the publisher payment date. The eSellerate contract states that we have 30 days after this billing cut-off date to actually make the payment. This time is used to calculate sales, receive funds for transactions that take place at the end of a billing cycle, create vouchers, make the payments and all the other accounting stuff that I'm not involved in ;). We never take more than 3 weeks and often make it within 2 weeks. This is not an issue that needs to be addressed, but rather a simple misunderstanding. If anyone has concerns about this I'd encourage you to contact our support. Chuck, instead of thinking of it as getting paid 2-3 weeks late, look at it as if you're getting paid 1-2 weeks early.
I'd encourage you to send any more questions or concerns off-list, and I'll make sure they get addressed =). And thanks for the kind words, dave. It's always nice to hear from a satisfied customer.
Josh Ferguson
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mailto:email@hidden]On Behalf Of Chuck Soper
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 12:07 PM
To: Cocoa Dev
Subject: Re: [Slightly OT] Shareware donation collection
At 11:57 AM -0500 2/11/04, Dave Thorup wrote:
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On Feb 11, 2004, at 10:17 AM, Josh Ferguson wrote:
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>Everything is managed from your eSellerate Publisher account. [snip...]
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Robert,
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First, congratulations on finishing your app! ;) As for pursuing a
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sales model for your app I fully recommend eSellerate. I am in no
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way affiliated with Josh (quoted above) or eSellerate [snip...]
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The only complaint that I have is that their payments lag a bit
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behind the billing period. You get paid once a month, but the
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payment usually comes 2-3 weeks after the billing period ends. But
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it is consistent and they do always make the payment, so it doesn't
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matter much to me that it takes a little while to come. [snip...]
Dave,
Thanks for sharing your positive experience with eSellerate.net. I'm
considering using their services. I have heard that the payments lag
a bit from a quite a few developers. I think that eSellerate needs to
address this. If every month my employer gave me my salary check two
or three weeks late, I would be angry and feel like I was being taken
advantage of. Interest is potentially being earned on a significant
amount of money during this two or three week period.
It seems like the Cocoa Dev list might not be a good place to discuss
this and I'm sorry if my message reads like a flame.
Chuck
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