I would recommend using Stripe rather than PayPal. PayPal arbitrarily rejects credit cards for no apparent reason.
On Jan 8, 2017, at 4:03 AM, bilbosax <waspenc...@comcast.net> wrote: > A little discouraging info coming out of this search for licensing. > Sharify.it still has a website up, but I don't think that they are doing > business anymore because when you try and contact them, you get a Server > Error response. Nitro is still very much in business, but when I contacted > them about licensing, this is the response that I got: > > "I would strongly recommend you look at solutions like StormPath or Auth0 or > similar... for your access control and licensing of your AIR application. > AIR is not really something we consider to be an upward trajectory > technology at this point. > > Sorry we can't be of more direct help... AIR has fallen off our radar over > the years with expectation to our internal tools and larger customers who we > signed on a few years ago. > > NOTE adobe Air is NOT secure -- so consider that in your design -- > especially for any local encryption stuff you will be doing..." > > I already knew that AIR was not as big as it once was, but when other > companies stop offering services for it, that is when I fear that I made the > wrong choice when writing the application. On the other hand, so far AIR > has done everything that I need it to do, and it is cross-platform so it was > a great choice for me as a small startup. I just hope that AIR is > maintained for at least 5 years into the future where I will have more > capital to make other choices if necessary. Anyway, that still leaves me > with an issue when it comes to licensing my application to users as a > subscription. I have both a desktop and mobile version so I want people to > be able to sign up once, but be able to move seamlessly from desktop to > tablet to mobile phone out in the field. I would use the App Store or > Google Play subscription services, but I don't believe that I can extend > those licenses beyond the mobile platform to a desktop application(I am not > sure yet). > > So where I am at right now is looking into StormPath. They only offer an > Authentication Service with user names and passwords, but no billing > services. After a little more searching, it looks as if you can partner > StormPath with PayPal or other billing services, so this might be a possible > solution for me. > > I won't know until Monday what my options are, but if anybody else knows of > any services that I should be looking into to offer subscription use of my > AIR app from desktop to mobile, please let me know. It would be hugely > appreciated, because I REALLY don't want to have to code this kind of a > backend and be responsible for credit card information, etc. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-flex-users.2333346.n4.nabble.com/Financial-Features-in-AIR-tp14411p14423.html > Sent from the Apache Flex Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
