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   Alex
   Administrator

   To comply with the terms of the user license, you are required to buy additional licenses for each domain you use it on. I'm happy to say that people are doing so. However, there are a couple of things I can say to clarify my position:

   * There is no serial code, encryption or other anti-piracy measure in simpleContact Pro. I prefer to trust my users and spend my time improving the product rather than developing such mechanisms (which a determined pirate could remove anyway).

   * Although I don't actively prevent a user from buying a license of 'Pro and installing it on multiple domains, it does breach the license and I do not support unlicensed domains or users.

   * I plan to offer a "developer" license option in 2009. You will be able to buy this license to use 'Pro on as many of your own websites as you wish. See the volume licensing thread for more information.

   Posted 3 years ago #
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   Alex
   Administrator

   Update: The "developer" license is now available on the new website.

   For $60 (20% less than the cost of three single-domain licenses) you can install simpleContact Pro on as many of your own websites as you wish.

   You will also be entitled to receive all future updates for free (single-domain license holders get 2.x updates for free).

   If you are a web designer producing sites for clients this is the best value way to buy simpleContact Pro:

   http://www.simplecontactform.com/buy

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   JR
   Member

   Hi Alex
   With the Developer/Extended License may I deploy this on as many of my clients websites as I want?

   Reason I ask is that you first stated:

   For $60 (20% less than the cost of three single-domain licenses) you can install simpleContact Pro on as many of your own websites as you wish.

   Then you go on to say:

   "If you are a web designer producing sites for clients this is the best value way to buy simpleContact Pro:"

   Posted 6 days ago #
4. 

   Alex
   Administrator

   Hi JR,

   Thank you for bringing this up.

   The short answer to your question is "yes you can" but I'll attempt to clarify things:

   simpleContact Pro was originally priced at $25 for a single-domain license, and $60 for a "developer" license that permitted you to install the application on as many of your websites as you want. I later started selling the application through the CodeCanyon marketplace, on a non-exclusive basis (I was also selling it directly here using PayPal).

   CodeCanyon choose the price that they want to sell your product at. This isn't all that uncommon – Amazon do that – but it can be undesirable if they choose to sell your product for less than you'd like. They chose to sell SCP for $11 which, considering many people these days seem to think the standard rate for software is $0.99, is still pretty good for me so I decided to give it a try. They also offer an "extended" license option for products that I was able to opt in to.

   Since putting it on, most sales started coming from there so I decided that it was best for me to sell it exclusively there (in order to get a better revenue split). As far as I'm concerned, the extended license is the new developer license and by purchasing that license you're welcome to install it on multiple sites.

   I still believe that it's the best value way to buy the application if you're a web designer who works on many sites. It's not quite as economical compared to the single-domain license as before (at the cost of five single domain licenses), but it's a little cheaper than it used to be at $55 so hopefully that makes up for it.

   Also, because of the way CodeCanyon works, single-domain and extended license holders will be able to get all updates that I release.

   I hope that was helpful. If you have any other questions, fire away :)

   Posted 5 days ago #

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