Amin:

We've tried to make v3 as flexible as possible so that with a little effort you can put together some clever site flows, and use some neat tactics such as offer a freebie, then do an limited offer upsell to a paid item. Just like I do on the SmartDD.com site.

The price we felt was more than fair, maybe in v4 we'll charge a little extra but then we have plans to offer a lot more for the money.

Yeah I know where I live too.

Graham:

Yes, I'll rework the copy a bit and although it *is* still a delivery script, you're right it does a bit more now.

Kunaki are interesting, they prefer to be seen as a machine rather than a company, which is a novel approach. They don't do discounts, they don't negotiate, and they generally don't have any interest in your business at all. You feed them ISOs, money, and addresses, and they deliver.

V3 does alternate payouts directly to PayPal accounts. One to you, one to the affiliate, depending on your percentage commission of course. A 20% commission would give one to you, one to your affiliate, three to you, then one to the affiliate, four to you and repeat. If you don't quite like how it does it, you *could* go messing with the payout table in the database, but it's best to leave things alone I think.

I'm not launching without docs, because I now know from experience that they'll never get done…

Phil:

Yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes.

At 30% it would be something like 1 to you, 1-aff, 2-you, 1-aff, 2-you, 1-aff, 2-you, followed by 1-aff and around. ie your affiliate gets 3 sales and you get 7.

At 31%, it gets a little tricker.

Mark:

No worries, you'll have 24 hours to upgrade at $17, and even then it's only $27 after that.

Gareth:

You know what? You're right. With a little more effort, we could have released it as Site Flow Manager, but we decided enough's enough.

V4 will be even closer to Site Flow Manager, but won't do the most important bits that SFM will become famous for when it's eventually released. That's all I can say on that front.

It's an upgrade from v2 to v3. We've tested it several times and it's always worked without a hitch.

Vince:

I'm afraid there's nothing special planned on that front. Your best bet is to wait and see though. If you can't wait, go for the full version.

On the IP address, no we haven't. Is this important to you? I've never really been that interested in the IP address as I get their name and home or business address instead, which I think is more useful. Most scripts throw that detail away when it comes back from PayPal, I make sure mine retain it.

Charles:

We want you to go "WOW!", grab the upgrade and then tell other people about it. Using your affiliate link of course.

The PayPal commissions are instant. Affiliates like that.

SmartDD won't integrate with other payment scripts. The reason being they'll just fight over who gets the IPN data. Yes we could do IPN forwarding, but many scripts check that the IPN data is coming from PayPal.com as part of the security, or should do anyway (SDD does).

We could work something out, but it can all get a bit messy.

Yes, we've talked about plug-ins, but a slug of work needs to be done first on the plugin functionality. If it's done properly, it can be an enormous job of work to get right.

I also think plugins can be a sideways method of squeezing more money out of the customer for functionality that should be integrated into the product anyway. Unless they're free.

We'll add PayPal subscriptions and simple (basic auth) membership either in v3.x or maybe v4, we're undecided. It depends how big a job it turns out to be.

Jan:

Yes. Everything has to be updated before the 16th otherwise I won't release and Amin will get me.

Vern:

I couldn't live in a world where Santa Claus didn't have a place.

A couple of years ago, my eldest asked me if Father Christmas really did exist, and my honest answer was "I like to think that somewhere out there in a magical place, Santa and his elves work in an enormous toy workshop. I don't want to believe anything else."

He seemed very satisifed with that answer, and I think was mature enough to get that I'd carefully side-stepped his question, and that if his dad was prepared to believe that, then so was he.

Christmas is a BIG deal in our house.

We don't go mad with gifts as we think that can give kids the wrong impression, and we often won't let them have something that we feel isn't right to give to a single child. We don't want them to think that things come easily, and that there has to be some effort involved.

But if they all agree on a single big gift, we'll include it for them to share. Along with their regular gifts of course.

Sorry, I've drifted completely onto Christmas now, but then you did mention Santa!

Donna:

The 23rd.

-Frank

P.S. We'll be releasing ClickBank support about a month after v3 release for those people that want it. It'll be an add-on for $10 or something like that, again with a 24 hour special for $5.