Re: Subscription-based sales system
Yes, I did it with on-Rev LiveCode Server. It took a lot of learning, but it works beautifully for Android. I haven't moved to iOS, yet, as want to do that simultaneously moving to LC 7.X for all-unicode and some new capabilities. but I do not believe there are any problems with iOS or Mac OS/X, but about desktop windows or Linux I do not know. There were two big hurdles: 1 interpreting the zillion documents related to the stuff and making guesswork what is the right format of accessing data (from Google) - 30% 2 making the subscription management infrastructure for all user identification, password etc management - 50% The rest, 20% of work was related to the actual application. Please contact me directly if you need some hints. rgds Christer Pyyhtiä MindCrea Ltd Mobile: +358-400-410216 Skype: christerp1 chris...@mindcrea.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Subscription-based sales system
Hi A number of payment gateways let you do subscriptions (e.g. paypal), if the periodic payment is unsuccessful (e.g. credit card expires) it will send a notification to your server, so that you can process and stop the subscription. You would just need your application to periodically check the server to see if it can load and react accordingly. On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Marty Knapp martyknapps...@gmail.comwrote: Has anyone set up sales of their applications on a subscription basis? I would want something that could be automated so that if a customer's subscription ran out, they could make a payment and be back up and running without having to wait. It would be for Mac and Windows - no mobile and no app stores. Thanks for any input and ideas. Marty ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- *Simon Smith* *seo, online marketing, web development* w. http://www.simonsmith.co m. +27 83 306 7862 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Subscription-based sales system
Hi Marty, Installer Maker is a plug-in and standalone program that can be updated for free during 3 months after purchase. During one year after purchase, people can buy a new license at a discount price. Almost everything happens automatically when someone buys a license. I only need to press a button to confirm receipt of payment --a step which I could easily take out of the process if I wanted to. The process is the following: 1) someone buys a license using PayPal 2) the server registers payment and PayPal sends an e-mail to me 3) I press the button and an e-mail with the license is sent 4) the license keys of the past 3 months are stored in a database on my server When someone tries to buy an update 5) the user enters his or her license key in a web form 6) if the license key is in the database, a different web form loads 7) the user can use this web form to buy a discounted license using PayPal 8) see step (2) This isn't exactly a subscription-based system, because people can still use Installer Maker with an expired license; they just can't upgrade at the discount price after more than one year. However, the license is connected with the date it is created on and thus it is easy to make the software stop working entirely when this date is reached. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Installer Maker for LiveCode: http://qery.us/468 Buy my new book Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner http://qery.us/3fi LiveCode on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/runrev/ On 5/13/2014 19:08, Marty Knapp wrote: Has anyone set up sales of their applications on a subscription basis? I would want something that could be automated so that if a customer's subscription ran out, they could make a payment and be back up and running without having to wait. It would be for Mac and Windows - no mobile and no app stores. Thanks for any input and ideas. Marty ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Subscription-based sales system
I did this for a while. Used revIgniter to talk to stripe.com's recurring payment service. They provide you with webhooks that can contact your backend system when a clients subscription status changes. I found their interfaces and documentation geared towards developers. On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Marty Knapp martyknapps...@gmail.comwrote: Has anyone set up sales of their applications on a subscription basis? I would want something that could be automated so that if a customer's subscription ran out, they could make a payment and be back up and running without having to wait. It would be for Mac and Windows - no mobile and no app stores. Thanks for any input and ideas. Marty ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Regards, Andrew Kluthe and...@ctech.me ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
