Quick Start with Shareware Assistant

Shareware Assistant(SWA) helps you process orders and manage customer database. To use SWA, follow the steps:

STEP 1. Install and run SWA
STEP 2. Add your mail account
STEP 3. Define mail template
STEP 4. Add your products

STEP 1. Install and run SWA

SWA has a setup program, and it's easy to install it on your computer. After install it, run it and you'll see the main screen like following:

STEP 2. Add your mail account

Click the menu "Tools->Mail Accounts" to open the mail account manager dialog. SWA can access your POP3 mailbox and get order mails. It will check all mails before download it, and only get the order mails. It can parse order's information from order mail which sent from RegNow, Regsoft, SWReg, ShareIt, Emetrix, QWerks and Paypal.

Click the "Add" button to add your mail account information. It's easy to do this like you do it in Outlook Express.

STEP 3. Define mail template

If you want to send registration mails to a customer, you need define a mail template at first. Click the menu "Tools->Mail Templates" to open the mail template manager dialog. If you don't want to send registration mails to customers, you may skip this step.

Click "Add" button to add a new template.

You may insert variants in the mail subject and content, and it will be replaced with customer's information when send the mail out. You may define different template for each product, or define a default template for all products.

We provide a template example for you. To use it, click "Load..." button, and select the file DefaultMT.txt in the same directory of SWA. You need replace the related information to your data, like company name, email address, and so on.

STEP 4. Add your products

Click the menu "Tools->Products" or the button on toolbar to open the product manager dialog.

Click "Add" button to add a new product.

SWA will automatically generate a product ID, but you can change it as you like. You need enter the Name of your product. The name is very important for parsing data from order mails, because SWA will recognize the product information of an order by its product name. If the name you used on your online reseller is different from the name you used here, or you use different names for different resellers, you need define the Product Flag. To know more about product flag, please click here: What's Product Flag.

If you want to automatically generate regcodes, you need enable the option "Automatically generate registration code". SWA supports two methods of generating regcode. You can write a Key Gen DLL by yourself. We provide a Key Gen SDK documents and examples. You may write your own DLL quickly by C/C++, Delphi and so on. The Key Gen SDK is include in the setup program of SWA, and you can also download here: http://swa.ocloudsoft.com/download/KeyGenSDK.zip.

If you use Armadillo as your key generator, you may directly use it in SWA. SWA supports calling the keygen.dll of Armadillo and creating regcodes. You need define the parameters of your Arm project of your product, and specify the path of armadillo in the options dialog.

To automatically send registration mails to customer, you need enable the option "Send registration mails". Normally, you just need select the option "Send regcode to customer" and select a mail template, then SWA will send registration mails to customers.