Well, my experience is that users
DO NOT pay unless you give them considerable incentive. You
must "cripple" the program or "lock" it up so it is only
really usable if they pay the SHAREWARE FEE. Over 1,200
people downloaded this database template (if you count
versions 3.3 and 3.4). Guess how many actually paid any
shareware fee? The answer is only five so far. I guess that makes me extremely naive but
actual experience is a reality based teacher. If you put in
time and effort on filemaker solutions, I suggest you either
not worry about payment and just give it away or find a way
to extract the payment before delivering a working database.
I have improved the database by
adding a few features ( see main page Filemaker 7.0 version).
Access to the new database will only occur through email
sent from me to users who pay. The ESeller Version 3.7
database will arrive as an email attatchment after the
shareware fee is paid. You can still download version 3.4
for free and try it out. "Shareware" is
Copyright-protected software that is distributed on the
condition that if a user wishes to keep the program beyond
the trial period, they will send payment to the author. The
database ESeller may not be sold as a single software
program or distributed as part of a shareware collection by
anyone other than the original author(© R. Hofemann
2004).
This Filemaker database is designed
to help sellers keep track of sales, print package labels
and to print a packing slip for ebay auction items. I spent
a lot of time learning Filemaker and figuring out the
scripts to make the template work. I actually thought that
if I made the template cheap enough, users would actually
pay for some of the labor that went into it. If everyone
could write Filemaker script with loops to extract information, they
would not need this database template.
The database template is provided "AS IS," and without any
warranty, expressed or implied as to fitness for any
particular purpose. Copyright © 2005 - Robert Hofemann.
All rights reserved