Selling downloadable software via the Internet

[nederhoed]

Hello all,

The company I work for wants to sells some software products via our site. Can anyone suggest me some excellent implementations?

I did take a look around of course but found too many 'complete solutions' where 'no knowledge of the itnernet is necessary'. What we would like is a solution we can install on our linux hosting account. So we will have control over it.
Preferably using PHP and MySQL.

I found:
- osCommerce (www.osCommerce.com), which doesn't seem to support selling downloadable products.
- cpCommerce (www.cpCommerce.org), which is not mature enough yet.
- X-Cart (www.x-cart.com), seems ok...


Thanks in advance! Robert-Reinder

[tony_fulford]

--Robert

What type of software does your company want to sell?
Software developed in-house?
Commercial packaged software?
Software components?
ETC.?

[nederhoed]

Hello Tony, thanks for the reply.

We're talking about a car licence plate recognizer from digital images.

We have 2 kinds of *downloadable* software we want to sell:
-First an SDK (dll/lib) which others can use for in-house development of an applications using licence plate recognition.
-Second we have a downloadable recognizer for PDA's.

Prices will can vary from 200 to 500 EUR.

Does this answer your questions regarding my question?

I'm looking forward to your reply! Robert-Reinder

[tony_fulford]

--Robert

My personal opinion is that you should outsource the selling of your software. It will save you many headaches and there are sites which speacialize in this. Look at:

http://www.componentsource.com/

Good Luck!

[canfone]

Robert,

I am a big osCommerce fan. I think you can integrate the software by using the PayPal IPN module.

I talked to a guy who is selling a high-end education software using http://www.digitalriver.com/corporate/index.shtml


Check it out

[davidhills]

ShopSite Pro allows you to sell digital goods. You can try out a demo here:

http://www.shopsite.com/demo.html