How to Make Money with SIMPOL

Simpol wants you to be successful building applications with our tools — since your success is also our success.

If you develop freeware, we suggest that you design your application so that the end-user is encouraged to buy SIMPOL Desktop to make their own enhancements (taking advantage of the Table Designer, Form Designer, and/or Report Designer).

If they do, you can earn money from their purchase!

If you develop a sophisticated application, we suggest that you design your system so that there is a "Lite" or free trial version that the end-user can "try-before-they-buy".

Please consider the following scenario:

A fitness instructor is about to set up a class. She reads in her fitness magazine that you are offering free software to manage "Group Membership". She downloads your software from our website, or yours, and starts to use it successfully.

She registers it with you, and by agreement with her, she shares that information with us. We will give you the tools to do this online automatically, or we can provide that service for you via our online store.

Every so often she receives a prompt, telling her that she can enhance her product by buying SIMPOL Desktop. This will allow her to:

  • modify screen layouts
  • modify reports, both on-screen and printed
  • make simple changes to the underlying database (edit fields etc.)

If she buys this from you, you make a profit and you pay us our share. If she buys this from us, we make a profit and we pay you your share — provided you or she have registered her download and use of your product with us!

If your free product is used widely and many of your end-users or customers buy a copy of SIMPOL Desktop, you could create an excellent revenue stream — your success is also our success!

Later, she wants to enhance her software. She has 2 options:

  • ask you to provide the upgrade
  • develop the upgrade herself

Either way, you can earn money.

One option is that you earn money from selling your premier or upgraded product, or by developing a custom enhancement for her.

The other option is that she buys a copy of SIMPOL Developer Kit and you earn money from that sale.

All the Simpol tools and products have been designed for various levels of normal end-users to develop their own products.

You can become an enabler for many end-users to enhance and develop sophisticated computer applications, by using your skills to develop many free templates or sample applications.

Every time they buy a copy of Simpol Desktop, you will earn money.

Get it right and you could sell thousands of copies. By following that strategy you could multiply your earnings significantly.

We have case studies of normal people developing amazing computer applications, which they have then sold by the hundreds and thousands:

  • A truck driver developed a route-planning, expenses and billing system for his own use. He then sold many copies to other truck drivers.
  • A carpenter developed a design system, with sophisticated quotation and sales tracking, for his own use. He then sold many copies in an OEM deal with the manufacturer of the raw materials.
  • A lawyer developed a system to track his projects and computerise all aspects of his business. He then set up a separate business to sell the system.

We would like to work with you to help you be successful using SIMPOL tools, in ways that might be similar.

Remember, your success is our success.