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Aren't there many other alternatives, too? Admittedly, I'm a bit out of the loop. When Kagi[1] changed their payment structure to discourage small prices, I started using Fastspring[2] for many years for an old shareware project. It works very well. However, I have almost zero sales now so there is not much to work with.

Funny story: Just a few weeks ago, a a guy from Fastspring called me up in Portugal on my landline phone. His accent was Australian or NZ, so I had troubles understanding him and I also suspected a phone scam first. He turned out to be a very nice person, he was interested in my business, how they could help us grow, and about the Lisbon developer scene in general. I had to tell him that I don't know anything about it, but I did mention Y Combinator and the local government's efforts to attract startup companies. I also had to explain the nature of my 'business' to him - that it's no longer a business, only shareware maintained for existing customers. No idea what the real purpose of the call was, but it was a nice chat and I was positively impressed by Fastspring's customer service.

[1] I remember fondly the cheques I got from "Walnut Creek" and how I had to move to Citibank because my local bank treated me like a suspected criminal because of them. Sadly, I've just learned that they shut down in 2016: https://tidbits.com/2016/08/04/kagi-shuts-down-after-falling...

[2] https://fastspring.com/



I remember people from Fastspring and BMTmicro being very active in the indie game development forum i was participating at (i think the BMTmicro guy was actually the owner, not sure about the Fastspring guy). That was around 7-8 years ago, but still left me a positive impression for both companies especially since they weren't just bullshitting to appear "involved" in the community, but actually participating in the discussions with useful comments.


Never heard of FastSpring, so do they specialise in small value payment?

And none of the pages had any mention of the pricing they charge. Please contact sales even on Pay as You Go Plan.




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