User Authentication & Subscriptions…
One of the service areas that I want to explore with this business is subscription-based web services.
I’ve therefore been spending quite a bit of time looking into various user management/authentication/subscription packages that I’d be able to use. There are a heap of user management/login libraries around, but not that many that combine subscriptions and payment processing.
Some of the packages I’ve been looking at are:
- Amember
- Interlogy’s Profile Manager
- PHPGuardDog
- Omni-Secure
- Oscpro (This one’s more of a shopping cart package that looked potentially modifiable)
I haven’t found much discussion about these type of packages on the Micro-ISV blogs, or even web development forums for that matter. Does that mean that most Micro-ISV’s just sell their software as a package and aren’t into running hosted services?
The investigations continue…
[...] I’ve been looking at options for packages like this for awhile now and am quite interested in having a closer look at it. I am hoping it supports a variety of software products, such as web subscriptions… [...]
[...] I made a decision tonight that I hope will help really get things going around here: each month I will pick one thing to do with my business and then I will have four weeks to research, develop/purchase and then implement a solution to that goal.b This came about as I was thinking again about payment processing and customer portals, etc and I realised that I’ve looked at this stuff before, yet still haven’t implemented anything! [...]