Michael I TOTALLY disagree with what's been previously been said.
You should supply the FULL product in demo form. Let your prospective customers see the full product, allow "user to modify reports". It is your job to allow them to see the FULL advantages of your software. Do NOT restrict your software. Remember they will try out your software with, probably, real data. They will expect the time they have spent entering this to be worthwhile, ie its still there when they upgrade to the full product. I assume you have reviewed restricting it to 30 days use etc & decided it is too easy to get round the restriction. With CalcPay I offer the FULL payroll product. I restrict it to 4 periods of use. ie once 4 calculations is entered onto the P11 table(ie 4 payruns have been done & recorded) I disable the Payroll Calculator option. This can be for 1 or 10000 employees. (I also disable the ONLINE END OF YEAR report to send to our beloved H.M. Revenue & Customs.) This means that the user can fully evaluate the product. If you disable, for instance, "allowed the user to modify reports" then they can not review your product to its full advantage. Do not do this type of restriction. 25% of my clients are accountants/bookkeepers. I point out that they can email the payslips to their clients. I wait 10 secs & then tell them that the PDFs can be encrypted. The sale is made. Would you have removed this in your evaluation! Find a restriction that is a major hindrance. Is this FabMate!? Can you restrict the Stock/MakeUp table to say 100 items. They can then fully review your system knowing about this restriction and then make their own minds up as to whether they should purchase it. Can you restrict a single major report so that they can only view it? Keep the restrictions simple & obvious. They can run the full product. This of course means they cannot reject it later( because it does not do what they thought it should do), you have after all allowed them the full run of the product. So what happens to a client that can survive with 100 stock items, well they get a free system. Get over it. You would have never have got them for the price you are charging anyway. You have however allowed potential clients to see see your software in its best light. Because your software is good they will buy it! (If your software is not good then why are you on this list!) I find if you trust your customers they trust you. Probably one of the reasons that I come 2nd out of 1,280,000 on a google search (UK) for 'payroll software' Give your clients the full product. Forget about the lost sales, you would not have got them anyway. Concentrate on your clients, keep them happy. Ensure you have 95%+ retention of your clients, if not, find out why & fix it. Andrew Stirling 01250 874580 http://www.calcpay.co.uk HMRC Accredited UK payroll program MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: > Tracy Pearson wrote: >> If you have any code that modifies the FRX's on the fly, you'll need to >> account for that. >> > > Excellent point! I had a menu item that allowed the user to modify > reports. I'll have to disable that for TRIAL version users. > > THANKS! > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
