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    Can i do this if so how. Any instructions.

    I would like to create a web app that i can sell monthly user subscriptions to.

    It would be the same web app for everyone but everyone would need to have their own complete user interface with their business name and their records would need to be kept safe and not visible to all the other users.

    This would be a contact management app that tracks customers, jobs, Products, appointments and can print invoices and receipts and has a full set of reports and full e-maill support for sending and tracking e-mail for each customer for each user.

    So each paid subscription user would log in and have a complete safe interface that they can use and print reports just for them that is not mixed up with other users. All $ totals will be just for them and the customer DB will be just for them not shared by other subscription users.

    If this can work i could see having a few hundred paid users each month with in a year or so for $25 a month.

    I would want it to work so any upgrade i do is applied to all users accounts so any upgraded will be free for all users all the time.

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    Can this be done? will it be easy to setup like this?
    Are their instructions on how to set up a web app like this monthly user subscriptions with everyone getting their own DB. if so can you point me to the instructions..

    Can i just use one version of the web app set up to do this or would i need to load in a new version under a new name for each new user and would that work on the same web account.

    How would i set it up to work for user subscriptions?

    Would i have a admin area for me to make updates that would show up for everyone.

    I do not want to pay for the new V9 update if this will not work out right like this plus it needs to be easy for me to make work like this i am not a super Alpha user so things are hard for me to get all working right.

    Last?
    Would the Alpha sports web app be a good starting point for something like this?

    Thank you..
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    Re: Can i do this if so how. Any instructions.

    It all depends on your ablity to build it, or to pay to have it built. Everything else you mention is standard issue for an Alpha web application.

    Definitely one database shared by all users, no need to create one-database per customer.

    It's hard to answer your other questions because it depends on the details of what you need to build. Alpha sports may or may not be a good starting point. it depends on how close it already comes to what you want, and only you can evaluate that. It does not have a subscription model or half the other things you mentioned built in, so you would have to add those features.
    Steve Wood
    See my profile on IADN

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      Re: Can i do this if so how. Any instructions.

      Originally posted by Digitaled View Post
      Would i have a admin area for me to make updates that would show up for everyone.
      Since the users access the program through a web browser, there are no "updates" for your users. You update the web server only.

      ...if this will not work out right like this plus it needs to be easy for me to make work like this i am not a super Alpha user so things are hard for me to get all working right.
      Given your statement, you may find this much more challenging than the desktop version - unless you have a strong web background. But for someone like Steve Wood, it's just everyday ordinary web development.
      Peter
      AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

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      https://www.alphabasesolutions.com

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        Re: Can i do this if so how. Any instructions.

        But for someone like Steve Wood, it's just everyday ordinary web development.
        Thanks for the vote of confidence! But in some ways I struggle through each one like it was the first. Every web application has a portion that is basic and common, a portion that is very specific to the client's needs, and always some portion that is quite difficult. Add to this that, once it is operational, usage is 24x7x365 and it becomes really tricky how you will maintain or repair it while keeing it up and running.

        One thing I really like about Alpha web apps is they are so malleable. That is, I can respond to complex or emergency issues by quickly changing how the web application functions.
        Steve Wood
        See my profile on IADN

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