The netVillage software is specifically designed for for-profit systems seeking to capitalize on every revenue opportunity. In addition to advertising and e-commerce revenues that are typical in an online community, netVillage provides a unique ‘Credits’ based e-commerce system that, combined with surcharging options built into ALL of our services, gives you the ability to charge for additional or premium services.

These 'credits', used a micropayments for services, are the key to creating a successful revenue-generating online community.   It essentially allows you to charge for everything a member does!

Some Examples

All of our services are designed to provide opportunities for surcharging. Let's take our chat room as an example and you can see how other 'chat' software miss the boat when it comes to making YOU money. Here's some of our configuration options for chat:

• You can set the number of times a user can talk per session if he does not have enough credits. A powerful way to draw new members in.  Get them engaged in exciting talk with other members, then impose a restriction and prompt them to sign up!
• Limit new members ability to speak at all in the chat room. When they try to speak, they are prompted to sign-up (pay)
• Allow only 'paying' members to have private one-to-one chats with other members.
• Allow only 'paying' members to create private chat rooms.
• Allow only 'paying' members to use Action commands or play chat games.
• Allow only 'paying' members to have special chat room entrance and/or exit messages. People will pay to feel special.
• Optionally allow your chat room moderators to "post" credits to a new member's account. Great way to draw new users in with the benefits of being a 'paid' member

Our File Library is another great example. This service allows your users to share program and document files. There are plenty of opportunities for surcharges here as well:

• Restrict members from even seeing a library area until they've paid.
• Allow members to 'see but not touch' files in a library - until they've paid. Let them see what they are missing out on.
• Charge a user every time they download a file.
• Charge a user based on the file size, per 1,024 bytes of each file.
• PAY users to download a file! You can set a negative charge for downloads, paying users for downloading files. One possible reason would be if you were promoting the distribution of shareware or documents produced by your company.
  
• Upload Royalties. Allow your members to share in the profits from popular files they've uploaded! Whenever someone is charged for downloading a file, royalties are paid to the user who originally uploaded the file (You can specify an upload royalty of 0% to 100%).
  For example, suppose you charge for downloads at the rate of 1,000 credits per file and 1024 credits per kilobyte (one credit per byte). If a user downloads a 9,000-byte file, he gets charged 10,000 credits. If the royalty is 25%, the user that originally uploaded that file receives 2,500 credits added to his account when the other user downloads the file. He would be charged a net 7,500 credits if he ever downloaded the file himself (10,000 charge less 2,500 kickback).
• Sub-Lease File Libraries.  You can assign someone as a Lib-Op of their own file library area.

As you can see, this form of premium service charging is the future of profit-generating web sites - and only available from netVillage.

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