AW: Software License Manager

[Ian Wood]

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