Thanks to Matthias and Camm for your quick replies. Matthias, your method looks like a very good solution to me, especially as we have already decided to use Zygodact.
I have more questions, for example about the link between KAGI and a web site which describes the product and offers a ‘contact us’ service etc - you have this; but I couldn’t understand how that works from my first look at the KAGI site. I also think you do your own fulfilment - providing the actual downloads to the user - although I see that KAGI offers to do it, presumably for a fee. I’d like to know how you made that decision. If you haven’t the time to explain this in more detail I will just start talking to KAGI - but of course it’s really interesting to hear from someone in the LiveCode community. Regards Graham > On 17 Mar 2016, at 19:55, Matthias Rebbe <matthias_livecode_150...@m-r-d.de> > wrote: > > Graham, > > if you want to go the save way, then you should consider using a service like > Fastspring, KAGI or other. > They will fulfill the complete order,payment and deliver process for you > including VAT if applicable. > > You will get your earnings and do not have to think about VAT. > > Since 1st January as an european reseller you have to use the VAT-rate of > the buyers country when selling digital products like videostreaming, > licenses, downloads or whatever. > Before that date you could use the VAT-Rate of your country. At least here in > Germany the 1st January was the deadline. I am not sure if all european > countries already made this mandatory , but it is a european wide thing. > > Because of this regulation i switched to KAGI and do not have to worry about > the VAT stuff. > > Btw. if you want to protect your app you should think about Zygodact > http://www.hyperactivesw.com/solutions_zygodact.html > <http://www.hyperactivesw.com/solutions_zygodact.html> . It provides you an > very easy to use registration serial key system to your LiveCode standalone > or stack. It creates for each app a separate registration stack and a key > generator stack. > > I am using Zygodact with KAGI order system. KAGI´s order system supports > Livecode stacks. So after successful payment KAGI automatically to creates > the registration key using a stack with key generator substack and sends out > the registration info to the customer. That works like a charm. > > Regards, > > Matthias > > > >> Am 17.03.2016 um 19:06 schrieb Graham Samuel <livf...@mac.com >> <mailto:livf...@mac.com>>: >> >> I have been discussing the sale of a desktop product (developed with LC, >> obviously) with a colleague. We’re thinking of direct sales, rather than >> selling via an agent or an app store type of arrangement. He’s in the US and >> I’m in the UK, or at any rate the EU. >> >> I think that if I sell a low volume of product purely as a download with no >> physical fulfilment, I won’t have to charge sales tax anywhere in the >> European Union. But I am not sure about the US. It seems that some states >> charge sales tax on everything, while others (California, perhaps?) don’t >> charge if there is no physical fulfilment. I am not sure if the volume (or >> more accurately, the total value of sales per year) comes into it or not. It >> certainly does in Europe. >> >> Some people on this list are selling apps, stacks etc in this way - can >> anyone explain how they see this? >> >> This may not be the right place to discuss the issue, but looking at the >> only forum topic which seems close - ‘Marketing Your Products’ - it seems >> pretty dead. >> >> TIA >> >> Graham >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> <http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
