Quagga Tickets is a micropayment-based digital download store. This means that customers prepay a larger amount of money toward the purchase of small-cost items later. Artists and writers can upload their works and make them available to their customers immediately.
Customers pay store owners directly through PayPal to get virtual tickets. These tickets are then used to select digital downloads from the store to purchase and download. Store owners always make their money up front, and fees are lessened because customers do not need to do multiple small purchases, each of which PayPal would assess a fee plus percentage.
What Quagga Tickets offers store owners is ease of use and security. Store owners have their own site, their own database, and their own administrative login. They can add customers, add tickets to customer accounts, and even ban unwanted customers with ease. The Quagga Tickets Uploader allows store owners a simple and easy way to add new products to their inventory at any time.
No one can download a product from the store unless they are a customer and have the necessary number of tickets to purchase the download. None of the downloadable files are web-accessible folders, which means no amount of guessing web addresses will allow people to download your files.
Until May 15, 2009, Quagga Tickets will waive the $20 store setup fee and will not begin the monthly maintenance fee until June 1, 2009. Store owners can cancel at any time they wish. There is no contract to use the store. Feel free to try out the store without worrying about the high costs other systems out there charge.
Requirements:
- Valid PayPal account
- Ability to pay ticket and monthly maintenance fees on time
- A few minutes each day to add accounts and tickets purchased through PayPal
- Ownership of the digital works to sell them, or permission to do so
- The drive to want to make money
Those interested should email
c.bair {{{at}}} christopherbair.com.
PRICING
While the store is still in version 0.1.5, all stores will be available for the following pricing:
- $10/mo. flat fee for maintenance
- $0.08 per ticket redeemed in the store
Monthly payments are due by the third of the month (for example, June's payment is due by June 3). Per-ticket fees are assessed on the Sunday following the week for which they were redeemed. All weekly payments are due by the end of the day Tuesday after they are assessed. Failure to pay either payment on time results in a temporary closing of a store. All payments can be pre-paid in order to assure smooth running of stores.
TESTIMONIALS
"Thanks to Quagga Tickets, I left behind my day job and now I get to work from home at my leisure."