About Newton Register

Newton Register lets you pay for a shareware program with a credit card
via electronic mail.  Your payment will be sent to the Kagi Shareware
clearing house (or another, if you prefer) and forwarded, minus a
percentage, to the author.  If you have PocketMoney (or any Newton
application which supports the Financial Package Posting Standard), the
transaction may be automatically entered into your records.

Requirements

Register supports but does not require the ScrollingDoPopup extension;
if you have the extension installed, you may try to register any
program installed on your Newton, not merely those programs
pre-configured in RegisterÕs menu.  If you choose a program from
beneath the ÒIn Your ExtrasÓ line, see the caveat below. The program
you are registering gets a chance to react to your registration; for
example, if the program has expired, it might extend the expiration
date.

Paying for a Program

To pay for a program, select it from the ÒProgramÓ pop-up menu, select
the price,* and enter your credit card information.  Then select ÒMailÓ
 from the envelope button; Register will look up your name and address
and generate the proper form.  Double-check the form, then press the
ÒMailÓ button. *If youÕre unsure of the price, enter Ò<Ó followed by
the most youÕre willing to pay.  A clearing house which supports this
feature (none, as yet) will look up the proper amount and bill it if
itÕs less than or equal to the figure you specified.

Security

Note that Register merely sets up a mail message; the responsibility
for actually executing it is yours.  In particular, you may not want to
risk sending your credit card number via email.  If demand warrants, in
the future Kagi Shareware may accept PGP encrypted credit card numbers.
 The ÒnormalÓ encoding method should discourage casual sniffers, but is
not as secure as PGP.  Other methods should be used only for
registration companies other than Kagi.

Credit Card Numbers

For security reasons, I donÕt let you store your credit card number. 
Sorry.  But if youÕve stored the number somewhere else, you can enter
the entire number (or NetCash certificate) into the first field.


Caveat

If you try to register one of the programs beneath the ÒIn Your ExtrasÓ
line, if the author has not given Kagi Shareware permission to collect
payments, Kagi will try to email you notification that your
registration did not succeed. Authors interested in receiving checks
from Kagi Shareware should send their mailing address and developer
signature to shareware@kagi.com.  For use of this program with
shareware clearing houses other than Kagi Shareware, see below, under
ÒFor Programmers.Ó

Cash and Checks

Kagi Shareware can accept checks in US dollars, or cash in many major
currencies.  But please donÕt send cash or checks until you have
received a registration number which must accompany your payment.  To
do this, select the program you wish to pay for, and send an email
message with the payment method set to ÒQueryÓ.  You will receive an
email reply with further instructions.