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Posted by frothpoker on 10/24/06 10:19
I work in this particular field and the one thing that is always
missing from E-commerce applications is a good back office function.
Stock control, despatch management and returns processing are all much
more time consuming than the creation of the shop and the processing of
the received orders. If you want to steal a march on OScommerce,
E-shop, Get Trolleyed etc. then concentrate on the back end.
If you want to get paid, I would suggest some sort of token system
where people buy say 1000 orders from you and get an encripted password
which they have to enter into their system. You can then keep count of
the number of orders processed and when they have reached their 1000
orders they need to order another encrypted key.
If people are paying for your software and are running their business
on it then you will need to provide some pretty comprehensive support
facilities which don't come cheap.
Obiron
axlq wrote:
> In article <1161635253.794040.7980@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
> Moot <mootmail-googlegroups@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >If you have it in your head that one day you will charge for features,
> >then you owe it to your users to be up front with them and charge for
> >those features from day 1. Suddenly springing costs on the users will
> >bring you nothing but complaints.
>
> Agreed. However, it is still sensible to charge for expanded features.
> That is, offer a basic free version (not crippleware) but charge a fee
> for extensions. And of course any customizations would involve a fee.
>
> -A
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