Using trialpay as payment

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Ever though of using http://www.trialpay.com/ as payment, that would for sure “lure” a lot of people to “buy” Avast Pro, since they could complete an offer through Trialpay and Trialpay would then pay Avast for them.

I know some other programs like Getright and Winzip are having great success with Trialpay.

Just a tip / suggestion :slight_smile:

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Up until you mentioned it I have never heard of Trialpay but the most well known one perhaps is PayPal that many are familiar with.

TrialPay is a new way for your customers to purchase products and services online. Our payment platform allows your customers to access premium content and services by participating in relevant offers. We are inviting a select group of merchants to join our limited beta program. Email queries to

Sorry, but when it comes to parting with my money I would much rather stick with a more established method of payment.

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I think you misunderstand the concept of TrialPay, it’s not a payment service like Paypal, not even close.

Lets say a person wants to buy Avast Pro for a year and doesn’t feel like paying 40$ for it, TrialPay gives him an alternative.

TrialPay works this way:

  1. A person visit the Avast TrialPay store and enters his name and email.
  2. He gets a list of offers / programs he has to complete one off (some of the actually free, eg. the ebay offer)
  3. Eg. he choose the Ebay program, where he has to sign up with a new user and make a bid on something on ebay.
  4. TrialPay now recieves an amount of money from eBay, which the larger part of is forwarded to Avast
  5. The user gets a pro key for Avast

So Avast gets payed, the user gets a key without paying anything or not alot and everybody is happy :slight_smile:

I read a story about TrialPay, that some software maker, has gotten 60% more sale after he started to use TrialPay and as i mentioned before, Getright and Winzip use it with great success.

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Sorry you also misunderstand my concept of using established methods of payment, if I use something and it meets my needs I pay for it.

This scheme to me looks too good to be true, someone has to pay, so say I sign up with ebay and bid on something. I might not win that bid how much does Alwil get 100% of nothing is still nothing. Even if I won and bought a $40 item ebay doesn’t pay anything like $40 to TrialPay and they wouldn’t pay Alwil $40 either. So how would Alwil get the $40 it would have got from a sale of the Pro license, so everyone is is happy except the software vendor who could get a fraction of the value of the license.

Sorry but I just can’t see this working, it seems to be pie in the sky to me (IMHO) and not something I would be likely to get involved with, I would use normal methods of payment for goods and services that I require rather than going round the houses to try to get a software license.

I haven’t bought either Getright or WinZip conventionally and I can’t see me using trialpay to get them for free or not a lot, colour me sceptical.

Are you declaring an interest in trialpay because this Topic seems more marketing than general interest and not directly related to the avast 4 Home/Pro forum ?

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Well thats great, but a lot of people don’t, and those people Avast doesnt have any chance to sell their software to.

Larger companies like ebay, T mobile, AT&T, InkClub, Tivo, Blockbuster which some of the offers are from, actually want to pay a nice sum of money for new customers, just take a look at a lot of the freebies which these companies gives out all the time, they are almost desperate for new customers :slight_smile:

Thats your choice, but it actually works, i used TrialPay for Getright. GetRight is a nice piece of software, but there were other good free alternatives on the market, so the 30$ it costs kind of scared af me away, but with TrialPay i got a “free” GetRight and the company behind GetRight got another sale.

I saw how easy it was with Getright and the success they have with it, so I thought that Avast should know about the possibility, because it could open up a new market for them and improve their sale, so I was only to trying to be helpful actually :slight_smile:

Btw if you want to see what the offers are, here you go: http://www.trialpay.com/stores/headlight/getright

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I confess that the approach is interesting, and I will look into it further for use in avast! payment solutions. Though, by definition, that makes no promises at all. :slight_smile:

Best,

Justin.

Justin Bellinger
Worldwide Operations Manager
ALWIL Software

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Wow… Welcome to the forum big boss :wink:

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Cool, thanks for the reply.

Good luck with it, hope it can be usefull for ALWIL.