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|1| You don’t pay any fixed monthly fee upfront, and you don’t pay any per-order commission to us.
Instead, for every 20 copies of your product that is sold, the 20th order is directed to us as payment for our services. That’s our commission.
If it takes 3 months to sell those 20 copies that’s no problem, you won’t have to shed a penny in the meantime.
|2| We use your own PayPal account as the recipient for your product orders. This means that you will not have to wait to receive a check once a month or,
even worse, when you reach a certain amount.
Instead you’ll get your money on your PayPal account as soon as a customer completes a purchase.
|3| Don’t expect to find a plans comparison chart on this site, we don’t have any. It’s not that we’re lazy, this is simply because we don’t actually
have different commission plans and costs for different amounts of orders/products you have!
We have a single plan that fits any number of products and files you add to the catalog, and any number of orders you receive from them.
It couldn’t be easier for you to setup an account with us, since there’s just
one super convenient option to choose from – no need to change anything if your business grows exponentially (which we hope it does).
|4| You can configure your products with files which customers will be able to download once they complete an order,
and/or you can set up a product so that the customer gets a serial code instead.
This is especially useful if you freely distribute
shareware software that have locked features which are only opened when a customer registers the product.
|5| You can provide a list of per-product discount codes that you typically distribute to selected customer so that they can buy your product
with a special discount.
You can associate a different value to each coupon (expressed in percentage, or as a predefined amount), as well as an
expiration date.
byteCommerce will automatically check whether the coupon code provided by the customer is valid and not expired,
and will calculate the final price to be shown on the PayPal’s secure payment page.
|6| The way most of our competitors work is that when a customer makes an order, they send him/her a mail with the direct link for downloading a file,
or the registration code. The link would work for some time allowing to re-download the product in case it gets lost, but that’s it.
We do something better: we create an account for the customers who purchase one of your products. They can then login, see the list of approved orders,
and also the serial number assigned to them (if you’ve set it up that way), and the files to download.
If you add a file to an existing product (such as a manual, an update, or even a second free product which you would like to give in a bundle, current
customer will be able to download it automatically. If you don’t want it to proceed in this manner, but want to add new files, then just create a
new product of course. Maximum flexibility is our policy.
|7| We support all currency supported by PayPal. So you can specify the price for your products in one of the following: U.S. Dollar, Euro,
Pound Sterling, Canadian Dollar, Australian Dollar, Swiss Franc, Czech Coruna, Danish Krone, Hong Kong Dollar, Hungarian Forint, Japanese Yen, Norwegian Krone,
New Zealand Dollar, Polish Zloty, Swedish Krona, Singapore Dollar.
|8| You will be able to use PayPal’s reporting center to know exactly how much you have earned in a specific period. Or you may use byteCommerce’s
own reports for a more detailed account of your orders.
You can filter the orders by product and by approval status, and you can read all the
detailed information such as when and how many times the customer downloaded each product files.
|9| The fact that we use PayPal’s secured pages to process the transactions also means that your customer is completely safe and confident about
using his credit card information on the web.
PayPal is used by more than 100 million users and businesses of any size to send and receive money;
being the most widely known payment processor available on the Internet, it’s almost certain that your potential customers are already familiar
with it, have an account with it, and definitely trust it.
|10| In addition to coupons and serial codes, we also offer a few more advanced options for your digital catalog.
For example, for every file you add
to a product you can specify how many times it can be downloaded by the customer, and for how long (i.e. for the first week after the purchase).
Since every downloaded is tracked, we can block overly frequent downloads, thus protecting your hard work from being wildly stolen directly
from the source.
Take advantage of a professional-quality newsletter management module to sed out targeted mails that notify customers about patches and new releases.
We also support a form of remote HTTP notification of processed orders, in which every time you get an order, we optionally make a request to
your script (ASP, PHP, CGI, ASP.NET, you name it) sending you all order information, so that you can store it on your own database for further analysis.
We’re working on new features, so expect to find even more, always for the same price: zero.
|BONUS| byteCommerce now includes a complete newsletter management module that allows you to notify your customers
(all of them, or only those that have purchased a specific product in a specific period) about the new release
of your products, about critical updates, about the availability of brand new products, etc.
You can send out a newsletter in both plain-text and HTML (a WYSIWYG editor is provided, so there's no need to actually write HTML by hand), and customers will receive the appropriate version
according to their profile settings.
Finally, you can monitor the newsletter's delivery in real-time, and get a report about the clicks received by all links found in the newsletter.
These are professional features that you typically find only in dedicated services, with a cost.
With byteCommerce you have all this for free (like everything else here) integrated into your Control Panel.
See what we mean when we say we are dynamic and constantly work to improve the service and make it more convenient for our users?
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