Giovanni_m
I agree fully with what was written by ilbellodelweb, I do not think this is the best solution for a better market but I think they are much more useful the solutions for market improvement proposals from modzzz that a system of subscriptions that only kills the market.
A very relevant market is wordpress where there is not a "subscription system", just the "one-time payments".
This does not deter customers to use wordpress in fact is definitely the world's most popular CMS see more and this confirms that one-time payments not penalizes market in any mode.
To improve things it just takes more control on products placed in market and on the vendors.
in more exist two relevant problems:
1) if market not have many user that buy a subscriptions to $3 a month is impossible to finance the development and upgrading of the modules and this creating the risk that the user not have product upgrade because developer not have finances and abandon the boonex market, only one-time payments allows to finance the upgrading work with a lower number of sales.
2) in case of templates and many other modules with "open code" after is downloaded with only $3 dollars is impossible to impose deletion from a site if user suspend payments, for example if user suspend dolphin subscription and use dolphin with "free licence" what can do boonex to make sure that user cancel all modules already downloaded with only $3 dollars? for not mention those who use a nulled version in this case after have paid only $3 dollar and have downloaded many modules boonex not have any mode to stop the incorrect use of a modules.
Andrew Boon
Actually some WP plugins are also available through subscriptions now.

1. Depending on price and volume subscriptions may be more lucrative in long terms. One-off payments are good for immediate cash-flow. Vendors would be wise to offer both.
2. We're working on solution for that.
epaulo
From Andrews statements, I'd imagine that each module that's capable of monthly subscriptions will require some extra encrypted code to check whether the subscription is current or canceled. If canceled then the module would be disabled.

An advantage of Boonex developing a *good* reliant system for tracking subscription modules should be the ability to limit a customer's module usage to only one domain name (chosen by whoever is paying). Of course different modules could be used on different see more sites. I wonder how much money some vendors are losing each year due to their modules being used more times than they're paid for (not including duplicate test sites).
Andrew Boon
That's right. We're testing this on Trident now. Modules do have to include certain components that make them compatible with subscription-based licensing. And obviously this is one more reason why they have to be reviewed - both for buyer and seller protection.
 
 
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