Have you considered instead selling your customer a source code license? When we checked out the price of escrow services, we decided the revenue stream of sou

Have you considered instead selling your customer a source code license? When we checked out the price of escrow services, we decided the revenue stream of source code licensing was worth more to us than keeping the code strictly confidential. Obviously it depends on the price of your product, and how unique you believe your code to be, and how trustworthy you consider you customer. For us, because our product was relatively low-priced, and being a .NET app it was fairly easy to decompile it anyway, the decision was pretty easy. Incidentally, my understanding is that a lot of the price of escrow comes from the pain if the counterparty tries to execute the escrow contract - I think these things can be pretty contentious. Also, some escrow agents will verify that your code builds, as I recall, so this isn't an entirely commodity service.