Lisa, you're right. The only way to do it is to set a track. I can certainly set tracking in the code to track who is using the scripts. I don't know how vbulletten does it but i'm sure they assign a unique id to each copy sold and track their customers that way.
Since its a web software, that means the customer has the full code. If they are savvy enough they can figure out where the tracking is ste in teh code, and thus hack it or remove it. I'm sure vbulletten somehow deals with this thing.
This is where widgets are better, all the code is being accessed from my server, through small javascript code. But widgets rely on users browser, if javascript is disabled, they won't see anything.
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ou could set various prices. For the simple scripts, you can charge a smaller one-time fee and for the more complicated scripts (forums, chat rooms, etc.)
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I want to focus on providing small useful scripts like the tell-a-friend and contact-us form scripts and such which people can easily embed in their websites. Forums would be hard for a single individual to make since the complexity is enormous. I would need a team of developers. May be in the longer run, i would decide to do it.
What i'm thinking is this. Provide unsecured version of tell-a-friend/contact-us script for free and provide secured version (with form validation and captcha) for a fee. With that, set a price for any customization and/or form designing, if they require.
Free version
Non-Secured
support and installation included (for $9.99)
Paid version - $14.99
data validation included
secured capcha validation included
free email support and installation included
Customization
$5 per additional field
Custom form design - based on a hourly rate at $20/hr
Customized Forms
As per request (get in touch with me for a quote)
With all the options i also capture the clients email address for future updates and so on.
so something like this...what do you think? Can you add something on this?