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Patrick- this part is especially interesting to me - "This might be shocking, but many of my software buddies do not have fully automated fulfillment. If you b
by joeag 15y ago
Patrick- this part is especially interesting to me -
"This might be shocking, but many of my software buddies do not have fully automated fulfillment. If you buy their software, they get an email, and then they have to do something to get you what you bought. This is insane in this day and age for commodity software purchases. BCC will automatically generate a Registration Key for you (for the downloadable version), and takes a variety of steps to automatically upgrade the software without the customer's interaction. If they ordered a CD, it uses an API at SwiftCD to arrange for that CD to be shipped without my involvement. Bookkeeping entries get made automatically. etc, etc "
Although some of that process will be eliminated as more "app stores" proliferate, it's still a huge and "non-core" part of the process for most software application providers which should be outsourced, as credit card processing has become. I remember the days 5 or 6 years ago where you had to write your own payment gateway, etc, etc.
If you are interested in reselling this as a package to startup software companies let me know, I would love to be involved, I think it fits a need.