Bundle deals, mass license generation and FastSpring

[Tony Arnold]

Howdy ladies and gents,

I'll keep this brief - has anyone been working on support in PotionStore for any of the following?

1. Support for bundle providers like MacUpdate/MUPromo promotions;
2. Mass license generation based upon import of usernames/passwords;
3. Using FastSpring as a payment backend in place of PayPal.

If not, I'll have a whack at them myself over the next few weeks - but it would be cool if someone's already got any of this working.

Oh, also - Andy mentioned using the canvas tag in place of Flash for charting in his last message. I've got this code up in my fork on github - http://github.com/tonyarnold/potionstore. I use jQuery/flot to do the graphs in this version. It's probably a bit broken under PostgreSQL, but it works a treat on the iPhone for me ;)

Thanks!

Tony

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Tony Arnold

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[Jeffrey J. Early]

On Mar 5, 2010, at 9:02 AM, Tony Arnold wrote:

1. Support for bundle providers like MacUpdate/MUPromo promotions;

I actually have my application running on the macZOT promo as we speak,

http://maczot.com/discuss/?p=2127

It's set up so that macZOT queries a page with a name, email and order number. This generates an order in the Potion Store database, emails the license back to the user, and returns the license key to macZOT. It marks the method of payment as maczot in the database.

The big caveat being that it's really a crude hack I threw together Wednesday night. It's the first time I've ever written anything in Ruby and I was literally reading my first tutorials on ruby and rails while throwing this together. So, I'm happy to send you my code, but I didn't think it was worthy of committing back (yet).

Jeffrey

[Tony Arnold]

Hi Jeffrey,

It's perfect :) I'll clean it up and have a think about how to make it supportable for other solutions as well before I commit it to github - as far as I know, both MacZOT and MUPromo use pretty similar mechanisms for notifying our stores about purchases.

Thanks for sharing the code!

thanks,

Tony