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 RegisterUs menu.  If you choose a program from

beneath the RIn Your ExtrasS 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 RProgramS pop-up menu, select

the price,* and enter your credit card information.  Then select RMailS

 from the envelope button; Register will look up your name and address

and generate the proper form.  Double-check the form, then press the

RMailS button. *If youUre unsure of the price, enter R<S followed by

the most youUre willing to pay.  A clearing house which supports this

feature (none, as yet) will look up the proper amount and bill it if

itUs 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 RnormalS 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 donUt let you store your credit card number. 

Sorry.  But if youUve 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 RIn Your ExtrasS

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

RFor Programmers.S



Cash and Checks



Kagi Shareware can accept checks in US dollars, or cash in many major

currencies.  But please donUt 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 RQueryS.  You will receive an

email reply with further instructions.