eCommerce for my shareware (paid post)
I haven’t set up the online store I will need for my shareware application yet, but there is a donation button on jsisoft.com for supporting logview4net, my open sourced log viewer.
The main company in the ecommerce software space is DigitalRiver. They have bought a lot of shopping cart software and keep running them under their old names. It was quite refreshing when I heard about Ashop Commerce, a company that is not under the DigitalRiver umbrella (yet).
The main advantage I found with Ashop is that they do not charge any transactional fees. I sent them a support request wondering about fees for credit card payments. Even though I sent the question way out of business hours I got a quick reply. It seems handling credit cards requires a merchant account that probably will include transactional fees.
Ashop has functionality for managing affiliate programs. A feature I find very interesting a a marketing opportunity for my own software.
All in all I find Asoft a compelling alternative to roll my own store using PayPal for payments.
