Resources

Here is a list of resources we have identified to help you use SWREG

If you have ideas to add to this page please advise us by clicking here - we are really not looking for programming tools but services or programs specifically of use to shareware authors for distributing and marketing their products in order to increase sales. Digital River, Inc. makes no warranties as to the suitability or otherwise of any offers linked form this page.

FULFILLMENT

• Get it on CD! is a professionally designed CD that we burn and mail on demand.

TECHNICAL

• MGCSoft OrderDB - Free. Generously donated by MGCSoft to help other authors, this is a simple program enabling you to copy SWREG® sales emails to the clipboard and paste (import) into the program. Individual records can be cut, copied, pasted and deleted within the program and searched for text strings by column. Files are stored as CSV so can be imported into most other list type programs should the need ever arise. With Delphi 5 source code.
• SW Deputy - From a Report on the Show Orders link on SWREG's author's page, the Deputy creates the files you need to distribute fulfillment or upgrade programs to your customers, protecting your files using the customer's email address as User ID and their Order number as password. SW Deputy easily blocks access by customers who caused chargebacks. The Deputy also makes it just as easy to distribute files to people not in the CSV report, and easily manages updating customer email addresses. $15
• ParseRat. For when you want to extract the names, addresses, etc. in any emails you receive from SWREG®. A template is now provided to registered users to make it easy.
• SWREG Reporter - full-featured reporting tool based on multidimensional EASY OLAP technology allowing you to analyse your SWREG sales data from many aspects (dimensions). SWREG reporter uses SWREG's CSV sales data reports, imports them to a relational database and then processes as a multidimensional (OLAP) cube.
• Shareware Assistant - process orders automatically and manage customer informatios. Automatically retreive order mails from SWReg and other similar services, parse the data save to database. You may define the mail template and write your own key generator DLLs, and then send the registration mail to customers..
• SWREG Order Parser - FREE - The kind folks at diplodock.com have kindly donated a parser designed to let SWREG vendors import their CSV reports into an MS Access database. Feel free to download a copy from http://usd.swreg.org/downloads/SOP.zip
• AgileBill - all-in-one billing system with plugins that support SWREG Advanced Level.
• QDashboard - Directly import customer information, invoices or sales receipts from SWREG. QDashboard checks your e-mail and automatically imports your sales receipts direct into QuickBooks without user intervention.

MANUALS

• OnDemandManuals has a free service to you that lets your customers purchase printed manuals without you having to get them printed in advance. Send your customer to OnDemandManuals and you will receive a royalty for each manual sold.

PROGRAMS

• Post Affilaite Pro is very powerful affiliate tracking software. Easily set up and manage your own affiliate program. This fully automated and flexible system allows you to attract, motivate, and reward affiliates who grow your business. If you want to start affiliate program for your website, Post Affiliate Pro is the perfect choice with its unparalelled set of features and ease of use.
  
  

  SpreadMsg Lite Software -- provides unattended data scanning and rule-based wireless message delivery to alpha pagers, cellular phones, laptops, Palm VII, PDA's, and to email. Raw data for message content can be captured, updated, and filtered in real time from many sources. You can run a program on receiving our sales emails or just parse them using this program.
  

• WorldCast - full featured bulk emailer and email address validator.
  

• 1Site - FREE PROGRAM - Create a Web Site with ease, quickly - WYSIWYG, no Html With this easy to use Web publishing tool you can make fancy Internet pages: frame-to-frame links, styles, mouse-over changing images and more... quickly. You don't see "HTML", so all is visual, fast, simple. A site is a single document, so no messing with endless files. Site-wide search/replace and internal FTP with autodetect of modified pages, so you manage things globally and publish to the Internet very quickly. Compatible with any browser. THIS LITE VERSION IS COMPLETELY FREE but the ftp uploading ability is limited to 15 pages.

SECURITY and Fraud Prevention

• Chargeback Bureau maintain a database of people who have charged back on their credit cards. (SWREG offer this link as an item of interest and possible value, not as a recommendation).
  

• Shareware Anti-Piracy Solution We help shareware developers worldwide to track and pursue companies and individuals that use pirated software. We get paid only if you get paid.

DISCUSSION GROUPS & more resources

• Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP). The principle organisation for shareware authors and associated trades.
• Euro-share - email newsletter discussion group.
• Shareware Developers Loads of resources for shareware authors.
• SharewareRadio.com - brings you a weekly broadcast of views and news about the Shareware software industry.

PROGRAMMING ETC.

• Bignosebird. Huge resource of cgi code, html code, graphics, and general advise on creating a website.
• LLLIB Licensing Library is a library for building licensing control into your applications. The library can control how many times your application runs, how many users can use it at a time and how long a license lasts for. Includes a comprehensive licensing system with license calculator and administrator tools. SoftwareShield System SDK - Feature-rich licensing and copy-protection system. The Internet Edition of the SoftwareShield System is designed specifically for SWREG stores. Issue Activation Codes completely automatically, 24/7 - without lifting a finger. Implement copy-protection, demo versions, trials, pay-per-use, periodic lease and countless other licensing models for your software quickly and easily. Download a free trial

LOCALIZATION

• Localization Studios represents a global gathering of translators, interpreters, computer programmers, copyrighters and editors. Specialising in websites, software, commercial law and intellectual copyrights.

MARKETING and ANALYSIS

• Great Newsletter and Blogs from software Marketing Guru Dave Collins
• See WebPosition above.
• Software Marketing Resource - a great independent resource for shareware developers to learn about all the facilities available to you to help you sell more software.
• Internet Business Promoter - multi-award winning web promotion software which will submit your site to search engines and drive traffic to your web site, includes meta tag generator, web site optimizer, inbound link optimizer and more.
• Mozzle Find the BEST domain names for your product, service, or company using thisfast and powerful tool. Mozzle includes an automatic thesaurus, advanced word groups with positioning, an advanced pattern search, Net Speak™, direct registration, printing, exporting, free upgrades and more.
• Shareware Promotions (Dave Collins). Will distribute your software to major and some minor distribution websites.
• DPDirectory (Al Harberg), Send out your Press Release to over 1,300 US magazine journalists and editors. Al also clips loads of magazines and checks many websites and notifies you of any press clippings
• SurfStats. - a Log File Analyzer that generates web activity reports. This provides invaluable marketing information to improve shareware authors' sites.
• Dynamic Submission 2000 - multi-award winning web promotion software which will submit your site to 800+ major search engines and drive traffic to your web site, includes meta tag generator, web site optimizer to improve your web ranking.
• Dynamic Opt-In Emailer - allows you to send personalized messages to your customers, subscribers and friends. With the built-in Email Reader function, you can check your mailbox contents before downloading the messages to your PC.
• SWREG - just in case you got to this page from a search engine why don't we tell you all about our own services to help you sell your software?
• TracerLock - free service that notifies you by email if your search word or phrase appears on a newsgroup or search engine.
• Maxshareware. - Senior software business developer helps shareware businesses maximize their potential and grow their revenue using a unique formula; we only get paid when you grow

LOW COST WEBSERVERS and related services

• OLM - have suitable low cost webhosting with free use of the server's digital certificate - great for Super Advanced level. Please note we only recommend OLM from personal experience and will not add other sites here only for that reason.
• Filekicker - let people download your files. Great statistsics. Read more about this unique service at www.filekicker.com.

MISCELLANEOUS

• Association of Freelance Internet Designers - if you have design or programming skills you can register with these people and they can find you work. Conversely they can find you the people you need to set up your system. Offer a free online registry of jobs to be done and people who can do them.
• Buddyhelp - is a web site that lets you do "remote control" on someone else's computer via the Internet. No software for either party to download - the client computer owner chooses the PIN number for access. Great when you want to look at a client's machine and do remote support instantly.
• International Directory Enquiries (Information) - Look up any suspicious orders. Cover UK, USA, Belgium, Denmark, France, Luxembourg, Spain and other countries
• Shareware Business Blunders Ebook - 37 industry experts reveal the costliest shareware business mistakes.