As a company have you looked at and do you have an opinion on the licensing model from JetBrains.
This seems to me to be a way of effectively adopting both Monthly and Yearly subscriptions and giving the developer access to a perpetual license with the incentive to keep the subscription up-to date.
I subscribe to JetBrains, Embarcardero and RemObjects and easily prefer the JetBrains subscription model
It’s something we have looked and and have considered / are considering (as an option). The "problem"is that there’s a lot of infrastructural work we’d need to do to enable this (including, and that part is a bit scary both technically and legally, holding on to people’s credit cards and making automatic charges to them over time. Currently, we don’t save your credit card. We pass it thru when you order, and then we’re done with it – absolutely no chance of stuff being able to go wrong).
But it is something we’re keeping on the table for future review.
Thanx!
I evaluated stripe the payment company.
It was awesome.
their api doesnt let you handle the customers card number while you can charge the customer lator.
the credit card number the user inputted transmitted to stripe server on javascript level.
then, stripe server returns card token.
your server receives the token when your submit a form to your server.
then youcan make payment request with the token to stripe server with your api keys
so you have zero knowledge on credit card numbers.
headache free.
(i am not supported by stripe company. i just love to evaluate APIs)
I also use stripe. It’s pretty amazing, able to set up monthly subscriptions, take/store card details and charge cards all without actually storing or handling the card details ourselves.
I’ve also started writing a stripe interface for Delphi which I use I our software. Happy to share this if anyone is interested.
Graham