Kagi Shareware is a company that provides payment processing services for shareware authors like myself. Their service makes it easier for shareware users to pay the registration fees by accepting a broad range of payment options including credit cards. I have been using Kagi for over a year now with no complaints from my customers.
Registering via the Kagi Shareware service is fairly simple. Open the "Register CatFinder" program that accompanies CatFinder. Enter your name, your email address, your postal address, and the number of single user licenses you desire (or Site or Word-Wide licenses). Save, Copy or Print the data from the Register program and send the data and payment to Kagi. More specifics on the different payment options follow. Kagi will handle the payment processing and send me your name and address. You can visit Kagi Shareware on the world wide web at http://www.kagi.com for more information about the company.
Paying with Credit Card or First Virtual
If paying with Credit Card or First Virtual, you can email or fax the data to Kagi. Their email address is sales@kagi.com and their fax number is +1 510 652-6589. You can either Copy the data from the "Register CatFinder" application and paste into the body of an email message or you can Save the data to a file and you can attach that file to an email message. There is no need to compress the data file, it's already pretty small. If you have a fax modem, just Print the data to the Kagi fax number.
Payments sent via email are processed within 3 to 4 days. You will receive an email acknowledgment from Kagi when it is processed. Payments sent via fax take up to 10 days and if you provide a correct internet email address you will receive an email acknowledgment.
Paying with Cash or Check
If you are paying with Cash or USD Check you should print the data using the "Register CatFinder" application and send it to the address shown on the form, which is:
Kagi
1442-A Walnut Street #392-KT
Berkeley, California 94709-1405
USA
You can pay with a wide variety of cash from different countries but at present if you pay via check, it must be a check drawn in US Dollars. Kagi cannot accept checks in other currencies, the conversion rate for non-USD checks is around USD 15 per check and that is just not practical.
Using an Invoice
If you have a purchasing department, you can enter all the data into the Register program and then select Invoice as your payment method. Print three copies of the form and send it to your accounts payable people. You might want to highlight the line that mentions that they must include a copy of the form with their payment.
Kagi can not invoice your company, you need to act on their behalf and generate the invoice and handle all the paperwork on your end.
Other Notes
Please do not fax or email payment forms that indicate Cash, Check or Invoice as the payment method. As far as we know, there is still no technology to transfer physical objects via fax or email and without the payment, the form cannot be processed.
Payments sent via postal mail take time to reach Kagi and then up to 10 days for processing. Again, if you include a correct email address, you will hear from Kagi when the form is processed.
