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10/9/2007 8:52 AM
 

rodneyjoyce wrote

 AliCommerce wrote

You can post your thoughts here or send it to me by email. Any comments are welcome.

 

Hey Frank,

Smart-Thinker uses a 10 portal license and a 100 Enterprise license. A lot of developers are now charging for a single portal, but that is quite harsh as I like to specifically break my sites up onto single portals if they are anything serious.

I blogged about DotNetNuke portal licensing - you may find it interesting...

I personally don't have time to maintain single product licenses, so I bunch all Smart-Thinker products into a Suite (they function better together anyway) and instead of charging $70 for a single module and then x% of that for upgrades, I use a hybrid model where you get the whole suite for $70 and supprt/upgrades for 2 months after that. I give a 30% discount to customers who purchase support blocks for a year. This model allows me to spend more time developing and less time dealing with product pricing, upgrades and fiddling around with customer accounts, but it's not 100% perfect - it depends on your situation and requirements as normal.

 

Thank Rodney for chiming in.  Your experience helps us a lot.

Frank


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10/9/2007 11:02 PM
 

robax wrote

Hi Rodney.. cripes.. have the sigs been disabled on purpose or is it just something temporary? I dont' have one myself but I think they are a vital incentive to getting knowledgable people to post. Could you maybe have a sig standing by in notepad for pasting into posts?

Hey Rob,

Yes, they are to prevent XSS attacks (people could insert Jscript into the sigs) - the new forum version fixes it, but it's been in the release tracker for many months and it will "be released when it is released". Then we get our sigs back for those of us who were unfortunate enough to attempt to change it. Yes, you could post it in each post I guess - when they do come back it will look a bit wierd on the old posts, but it's an option...

 


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10/11/2007 6:08 AM
 

This has been an interesting thread with many good ideas.  I particularly like the one based on the number of store items.  Many online stores sell only a small amount of items, so the return is not that great.  But, the store owner still wants to look as professional as possible.

Here is something else to consider.  Logically break the module apart in to components that could be sold separatly.  A person who only needs a catalog purchases the base.  A soft goods seller adds a softgoods module, and hard goods a hard goods etc.  This is a simplistic description of the idea, but I hope you get the idea.  One of the most popular stores has a great price, but is overly complex because of all the built in features that are useless to the majority of its users.  A componentized core following the DNN concept, would allow not only for better price matching to the customer needs, but also reduce the complexity of the module.

ListX has become my Swiss Army knife for each of the commerce modules.  I select a commerce module that has the closest core to the requirement and then add a ListX layer to the presentation.  It works, but is a real pain to keep up with across projects.

Of course at this point it may be too late in your development process to go this direction.  But, my two cents....

Rob

 
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10/12/2007 6:00 AM
 

RBrun wrote

This has been an interesting thread with many good ideas.  I particularly like the one based on the number of store items.  Many online stores sell only a small amount of items, so the return is not that great.  But, the store owner still wants to look as professional as possible.

Here is something else to consider.  Logically break the module apart in to components that could be sold separatly.  A person who only needs a catalog purchases the base.  A soft goods seller adds a softgoods module, and hard goods a hard goods etc.  This is a simplistic description of the idea, but I hope you get the idea.  One of the most popular stores has a great price, but is overly complex because of all the built in features that are useless to the majority of its users.  A componentized core following the DNN concept, would allow not only for better price matching to the customer needs, but also reduce the complexity of the module.

ListX has become my Swiss Army knife for each of the commerce modules.  I select a commerce module that has the closest core to the requirement and then add a ListX layer to the presentation.  It works, but is a real pain to keep up with across projects.

Of course at this point it may be too late in your development process to go this direction.  But, my two cents....

Rob

Thank you, Rob.  We're investigating the possibility.

Frank

 


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