AW: Software License Manager
Ian Wood
revlist at azurevision.co.uk
Mon Sep 8 07:31:27 EDT 2008
On 8 Sep 2008, at 11:27, Malte Brill wrote:
> It is important to make the entering of the key as easy as possible
> (I learned that the hard way). Give an option to paste from
> clipboard and strip all whitespace before and after. Prompt the user
> if the stuff pasted is wrong (multiple lines for example) Nothing is
> more frustrating when you try to enter your user data and it is too
> complicated.
I went a step further than this with Aperture Assistant - the user
copies the entire registration email, then the 'Paste From Clipboard'
button parses out the details.
> It has an unlock code checker and links to the order now page on my
> website. Payment is handled by PAYPAL (I know, i know) Once purchase
> is done PAYPAL sends a so called instant payment notification to my
> server. A PHP script receives the IPN and extracts the relevant
> purchase data from the IPN. The script then generates an unlock code
> that the checker in the game will parse. This code is sent by email
> and displays the unlock code to the user. The whole process is
> (hopefully) convenient for the buyer, but also saves me a heap of
> work, as I do no longer need to generate unlock codes by hand.
I do something roughly similar, but as I don't know enough PHP I set
up an old PowerBook plus a Rev app that checks all the emails in a
certain folder in Mail, generates codes and sends out registration
emails.
Mail on that computer doesn't do anything but deal with registrations,
and it's only gone down once in almost a year. ;-)
I just need to look at something similar using Kagi or someone, as
there have been a couple of enquiries by people who didn't want to use
PayPal.
Ian
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