ECMerge is sold primarily through Internet and Ellié Computing chose RegNow for its affiliation network.
Under Windows, your simpler solution is to use RegNow
affiliation and installer, however under Mac OS X, Linux
and Solaris 10 there is no such technical solution.
On these platforms (and on Windows if you prefer), in
order to help you provide a simple experience for the
installation, and avoid loosing affiliate sales, we added two
features in all the versions of ECMerge:
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/Ellie
Computing/FileHistorizer/serial_number.txt
or
$HOME/.config/Ellie
Computing/FileHistorizer/serial_number.txt
if
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME
is not defined.Ellie Computing/FileHistorizer/serial_number.txt
purchase_url.txt
" with a URL inside, just
aside ECMerge executable (
guimerge / ecmerge.exe
), this
URL will be used in place of Ellié Computing normal
purchase URL when pressing "Purchase Now" button and menu
item.ECMerge supports so called "OEM" license numbers, we can generate special numbers working only with a special version of ECMerge that we provide to you. That version is still fully signed with our code certificate. It allows you to provide your own mechanism for license enforcement for example for pay-per-use, or to bundle a version of the standalone ECMerge with your software (and avoid the risk of leaking the serial number).
If you want to sell ECMerge and consider these solutions insufficient or have comments to improve them, please contact us through our website.