
- #PERFECTTABLEPLAN HOME EDITION REGISTRATION#
- #PERFECTTABLEPLAN HOME EDITION PLUS#
Make it easy to change prices and product descriptions. Mustn’t hang if the geolocation service is down. Default to a sensible currency, based on the customer’s location from the free geolocation service.
Show a running total depending on the product, number and options selected.Handle multiple products, options and currencies.So I asked my good friend Paul Kossowski, an experienced Javascript programmer, to write me a payment form front-end to e-junkie.
I was loathe to pay more for my payment processing. I investigated e-junkie ‘variants’, but these weren’t an adequate solution either. So a customer buying in US Dollars can click the ‘Buy with GoogleCheckout’ button, only to be told they can’t buy in dollars through GoogleCheckout.
It always shows the ‘Buy with GoogleCheckout’ button – even if GoogleCheckout don’t do transactions in that currency. I only want the coupon field to appear if I give the user a particular URL, and I will only give that URL to customers who have coupon codes. There is a good chance that they will hit the back button and start searching for a coupon (I have done it myself). A coupon field says to a customer without a coupon “Someone else getting this cheaper than you – sucker!”. I looked at the e-junkie shopping cart, but it had a number of shortcomings I couldn’t live with, most notably: Doing all this through ‘buy now’ buttons was clearly going to be a mess. I also had additional options for upgrading version (e.g. 3 products, each with and without a CD and available in 3 currencies is 18 purchase options, not including the choice of PayPal, GoogleCheckout and 2Checkout as processor. I had been using e-junkie ‘Buy now’ buttons, but things were starting to get complicated with the branching of my single PerfectTablePlan product into three products: PerfectTablePlan Home Edition, PerfectTablePlan Advanced Edition and PerfectTablePlan Professional Edition. In theory I could have written a load of scripts to do what e-junkie does, but re-inventing that wheel would be a lousy use of my valuable time. #PERFECTTABLEPLAN HOME EDITION REGISTRATION#
It isn’t a fully fledged a registration service like Avangate, FastSpring or Plimus, but it has been adequate for my needs, has responsive customer support and is very cheap.
#PERFECTTABLEPLAN HOME EDITION PLUS#
I pay them a few dollars per month as a flat-fee and they provide an interface to PayPal, GoogleCheckout and 2Checkout (and others) plus additional features such as sending licence keys and handling coupon codes. I am been very happy using e-junkie as my payment processor for the last 4 years.