Jafilia is going PRO, you decide how!

There are a few selected people who need a lot more from Jafilia.

We are willing to serve our professional customers with professional services. Now it is up to YOU to choose whether one or another business model better fits your professional needs.

At this moment we have to choose from several different ways to offer these PRO services.

Press the "read more" link to know more about the possible options.

I have open a new discussion section on the forums for discussing this particular.

NOTE: Jafilia is and will always maintain it's FOSS (Free Open Source Software) version up to date and supported. That said, you all know we were planning to go PRO someday, since the inception of this project. This moment will soon arrive; there will be 2 Jafilia versions being developed in parallel with different feature sets, advanced (PRO) features would be specially implemented for the paid version on customer request.

Option 1: Sell the PRO version at a fixed price. Pretty old and well proven way of doing business indeed.

• When you buy the software you are entitled for a special forum and a ticketing system for fast support for 1 year.
• You would have to buy the newer versions or upgrades to newer versions if your license is older than, let's say... 1 year.
• You pay let's say USD 48.00, Upfront.

Option 2: Membership community. This is been lately a very popular option for other software publishers, specially in the Joomla! template market.

• You get any new version of Jafilia as long as you still a member and you would have access to a special forum and a ticketing system for fast support.
• We would be also be providing professional and fast support for  Virtuemart and Joomla! for our members.
• We would be also developing. maintaining and supporting two or three e-commerce optimized templates for our community.
• You pay a low fee every month , let's say USD 4.80/month.

Option 3: SaaS (Software as a Service). Latest trend in the software development and delivery market.

• You get an already installed and working installation of Joomla! + Virtuemart + Jafilia + pre-installed templates and some work saving bells and whistles along with the hosting service.
• Everything works perfectly from minute 1, thus saving you lots of installation and configuration time.
• Professional support is included for the full package, including Joomla, VirtueMart, Jafilia and any components, modules or plug-ins.
• Unified and Standar Platform for everyone, so there are less bugs, these are solved faster, and once solved the fix is put online for everyone, instantly, without you even noticing in most cases.
• Care Free: with automatic and Instant Fixes, patches and upgrades for Joomla, Virtuemart and Jafilia. Upgrades, updates and fixes are automatic and instant for everyone. You don't have to care for updating your Joomla or Virtuemart never again.
• Worry Free: You don't have to care anymore for any server side problems.
• Serious platform optimization: We fully control the server platform and fully support it. We decide which is the software running on it, so we can work on some serious optimization of the platform for running Joomla!, Virtuemart and Jafilia.
• You pay a fixed fee of let's say USD 7.45. including all the above AND the hosting services. That would mean no extra cost for you as you would NOT have to pay your actual ISP or hosting provider anymore.

DOWNSIDE of SaaS: Standarization is good... most of the times... There would be some limitation on the type and number of modules being supported, meaning you will be always be free to add or remove components and modules as usual, but some may not have full support... so if you need a very special set of components or modules this one could not be the best option for you.