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- What is Kagi Shareware?
-
- Kagi Shareware 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.
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- How does the payment processing work?
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- 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 Shareware.
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- What are the advantages to this system?
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- 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.
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- 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 <shareware@kagi.com>.
-
- Kee Nethery
- kee@kagi.com
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