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What is Kagi?
How does the payment processing work?
What are the advantages to this system?
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Lists of products
Lists of clients
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What is Kagi?

Kagi is a payment processing service for people with computers. Kagi started with shareware software and has since become a seller of all sorts of other products such as commercial software and things that you might buy from a catalog or a web page. Kagi makes it easy for people to pay for products obtained through the internet and frees the seller from handling all the payment processing. Mainly Kagi processes software payments.

The difference between commercial and shareware software is rapidly disappearing. For both, demonstration versions tend to be widely distributed on the Internet and BBSes. People download the software and try it. If they like it they pay for the full featured version. We handle the processing of that payment. Here's how we do it.

How does the payment processing work?

We provide software authors with a small registration program that they bundle with their software. When a person wishes to pay for the software they run the registration program and fill in the form that it presents. They enter their name, email, postal address, and select the product(s) they wish to pay for. The form accepts many different payment methods such as: US Check, Money Order, Cash (in many different currencies), Visa, Mastercard, American Express, First Virtual, and Invoice (to be given to their accounts payable department). They either email the data generated by the registration program or, they print it and send it via postal mail or fax, or they register via a web page. Credit card information is scrambled by the register program. Each payer receives an email reply and once a month the authors receive a single payment from Kagi along with a detailed listing of all the transactions.

What are the advantages to this system?

Payers like this service because it makes it easy to pay their software fees and software authors like the service because more people tend to pay when it is easy to do so. Non-USA authors and payers like the service because it eliminates all the currency conversion issues such as how a payer in Finland would pay an author in Australia. Another benefit of the service is that authors can concentrate on what they do best, writing software, rather than spending time processing payments.

The above is just a short summary of Kagi. We offer many services to meet the needs of our authors and are always open to suggestions.

We Process Payments for ...

Products and services handled by Kagi are listed by platform or type, and within those lists, alphabetical by product name. Some products are linked to associated web pages.

Lists of clients

Many of our clients have web pages that describe their products. The first group of authors with web pages maintain the Register applications that most people use to purchase these products. They also write some very popular software.

Grzegorz (Greg) Kochaniak, Hyperionics
Peter Lewis, Stairways Software, Ltd.
Jim Moy

And these are the people who make the products that Kagi sells.

Andrew Trevorrow
Baltic Business Software Inc.
Ben Gerdemann, Neurosoft
Bernard Olivero
Brookline_Software
Bruce Ryder, Wolf Addict Software
Bruce Switzer
Catamount Software
Christian Griesbeck
Claudio Potenza
Dair Grant
Dario Accornero, Dappsoft
Donald Carlile
Evan Manning, Dynamine
Fabrizio Oddone
Federico Filipponi
Francois Pottier
Grant Neufeld
Greg Landweber
Gregory Combs
Higher Dimension Software
Hiroki Nakayama
Innovative Computer Solutions
Jeremy Bem
Jerry Aman
Jesse Carneiro
Johan Calitz
John A. Gilmore
John McLaughlin
Jonas Wallden
Juan Trujillo
Karl Edwall
Lloyd Burchill
Marc Moini
Marco Piovanelli
Marco Tenuti
Mark A. Aiken
Mark Keller
Martin P. Pfeiffer
Matthew Carlson
Matthias Wuttke
Maurice Volaski
Maurizio Giunti
Nivek Research
Olivier Lebra
Paul Rodman
PCV-Soft
Polybytes
Robert Dannbauer: Cat Lovers!
Rod Kennedy
Rodney Jacks, Hot Rod Games
S. T. Han
Sebastian Modersohn
Sergio Montabone N.
Simon Poisson
Steve Weyer
Takeshi OHASHI
Tal Fuchs
Thorsten Lange
Tommy Anderberg, MIDInight Express
Trygve Isaacson
Vincent Tan
Wendy Stevenson
Wolfgang John
Bob Damiano
Mike Pinkerton
Jonathan Greenfield, Singular Systems
Pete Keleher
TheZone
PacMac Deluxe
St. Clair Software
Jason Rhubottom
Brian Sousa
Glen Stewart
Fabio Lecca
Mikael Arctaedius
Tuomas Salste
Onno Tijdgat
Hyo Ahn
Giles Alexander
John Knapp
Bob Bradley
Robert Pearson
Casey Fleser
Robert Panetta
Michael Kamprath
Andrew Zaeske
Norm D'Allura
Britt Bolen
Jason Spofford, Primordial
Doil Lee
Hardy Macia, Catamount
HanMac Software
Keith Turner, ShadeTree Programming
Matthias Kahlert
Pierre-Luc Paour
Brad Lowe, Rearden Technology
Mario Pacchiarotti
Lee Cohen
Daniel Doubrovkine
Howard Patch
Jim Tolliver
David-Arthur Daix
Daniel Azuma
Manuel Kasper
Frederick Groth
Dave Dobson
Karen Nakamura
Jim Russell
Robert Reid
Daniel Doguet
Robert Swanson
Farai Chengu
Anthony D. Saxton
Gideon Greenspan, Sig Software
Gleb Dolgikh
Rich Tolliver
Patrick Freeman
Lloyd Wood
Christopher Swan
Eduard Schwan
Tom Collins, Innovative Computer Solutions
Jeff Beeghly
Stefan van Daalen
Jochen De Schepper
Rajko Furlan
Vince Sabio
Matthew Nolan
Adam Tow

Welcome BeOS Developers

To quote BeMall. We stopped offering shareware registration. You may want to take a look at services such as Kagi. The most common questions asked by developers who are considering our services are: What are your costs?, What do I need to add to my software bundle?, How do I sign up?. These links take you directly to the places where you can get answers to those questions. Welcome.

Kee Nethery admin@kagi.com

Kagi
1442-A Walnut Street #392
Berkeley, CA 94709-1405
USA
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fax +1 510 652 6589