Hi Shari,
can't you create a direct link on the PayPal page to YOUR PayPal
page?
The result will be a very long ONE-liner that one can also use in
e-mail like this:
You mean an email link? You've been using Paypal email links from
your standalones successfully?
See my shareware "Quick-O" and my freeware "The Exporter"!
Same as the "Donate" button on my website -> Freeware
which noone ever used so far ;-)
I have not tried that.
Give it a try, works fine.
The last time I tried to use a customized very long email link in
something it did not properly work. I had attempted to prefill the
body of the email partway. I don't recall why. I might have been
creating a Feature Request/Bug Report button, and prefilling some
info regarding what version they had, computer info if it was a Bug
Report, etc. It was quite a long while ago and the memory is
fuzzy :-)
It stumbled over the prefilled body of the message, cutting it off
partway.
Sounds like a good idea to try, though. Anything that streamlines
the purchase process usually results in more purchases. I
discovered recently after studying some logs that more people get
to the Buy page than actually buy. So something is stopping them
at that page. Once they get there, they've already made the
decision to buy, but drop out at the last hour. I could increase
my sales quite a bit if I figure out what that something is and fix
it.
I know they go directly to the page from within the program. So I
was thinking if that just took them to Paypal with the specifics
already there bypassing the website form, maybe it would do the
trick :-)
Biggest trouble I've had with people ordering this year is my
original payment processor (Kagi) turned on Verified by Visa. When
they did that, sales stopped to dead zero. Just wham. That one
change by Kagi flipped my boat bottom up. So I put Paypal at the
top of the mountain, and steer people to Paypal first, though Kagi
is still available to them. Even though Kagi says they turned that
"feature" back off, I do not want to change everything back again,
as I make more money with a Paypal sale :-) Kagi charges me 2.25
per sale versus Paypal's 88 cents. Pretty significant.
Yep, KAGI is also not very friendly to non-usa-resident developers.
I still have about 88 bucks there on an old account but they ONLY
send cheques
and when i bring that to my local bank they charge me about 30 EUROS
(sic!!!) for
that non-service :-(
Other ways of transferring the money are even more expensive, at
least to/in europe.
Anyway when I steered people to Paypal, sales magically started
appearing again. Amazing how one change affects sales.
I'm about to release a new version so it's a good time to change
the menu...
Shari
Gypsy King Software
--
Mac and Windows shareware games
http://www.gypsyware.com
Best from germany
Klaus Major
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.major-k.de
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