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What is Kagi?
Kagi is a shareware payment processing service that makes it
easy for people to pay shareware fees and saves shareware authors from
handling payment processing. Shareware is software that someone writes
and is widely distributed on the Internet and BBSes. People download
the software and try it. If they like it they pay a shareware fee for
it's use. We handle the processing of that shareware fee. Here's how
we do it.
How does the payment processing work?
We provide shareware authors with a small registration program that
they bundle with their software. When a person wishes to pay for their
shareware they run the registration program and fill in the form that
it presents. They enter their name, email, postal address, and the
shareware they wish to pay for. The form accepts many different
payment methods such as: US Check, Money Order, Cash (in many different
currencies), Visa, Mastercard, American Express, First Virtual, and
Invoice (to be given to their accounts payable department). They
either email the data generated by the registration program or they
print it and send it via postal mail or fax. Sensitive information,
like credit card numbers, is encoded for better security. Each payer
receives an email reply and at the once a month the shareware authors
receive a single payment from Kagi.
What are the advantages to this system?
Payers like this service because it makes it easy to pay their
shareware fees and shareware authors like the service because more
people tend to pay when it is easy to do so. Non-USA shareware authors
and payers like the service because it eliminates all the currency
conversion issues such as how a payer in Finland would pay an author
in Australia.
Another benefit of the service is that shareware authors can
concentrate on what they do best, writing software, rather than
spending time processing payments.
The above is just a short summary of Kagi Shareware. We offer many
services to meet the needs of our shareware authors and are always open
to suggestions. For more information go to <http://www.kagi.com/> on
the WEB, or send email to <support@kagi.com>.
Kee Nethery
kee@kagi.com