As we are only 4 days away from Oempro4 release, I wanted to share some pricing and licensing information with you.

Oempro4 will have two editions named as;

• Corporate Edition
• ESP Edition

Corporate Edition, $345 per license

This edition is the correct choice for individuals, business owners and marketing agencies. By using this edition, you can run professional email campaigns for your own business or for your customers.

This edition comes with 20 user accounts which means you can create 20 different user accounts in Oempro4 and let them run their own campaigns, manage their own lists. More user accounts can be purchased later on.

ESP Edition, $745 per license

This edition is the correct choice for ESPs (Email Service Providers) and anyone who is interested in running a great email marketing business just like ConstantContact, Aweber or Sendloop.

ESP Edition comes with unlimited user accounts and payment system integrated. You can create (or let your website visitors to sign-up as a user) unlimited user accounts, set different payment plans for each user and track statistics from your management cockpit. ESP provides all required features for running a successful email marketing business.

Service Fees

With the release of Oempro4, our service fees are also going to change:

• 6 months free Upgrade and Support Service with Oempro4 purchase
• One time Free Installation Service with Oempro4 purchase
• After 6 months, you can extend your Upgrade and Support Service at anytime for only $99 / year
• Installation Service, $39
• We will also start providing professional server setup and maintenance service. This service has a limited slot only. Please contact us for more information.

Oempro4 Licensing

Just like the current Oempro3 licensing, each Oempro4 license can be installed and used on 1 domain only. For installing the same license to a second or more domains, additional Oempro4 licenses must be purchased. Additional licenses can be purchased with special discounts.

Oempro4 Source Code

We were delivering Oempro3 source code as 100% open source. In Oempro4, PHP files that contain core functions will be encrypted. This will not affect your branding or customization capabilities. In fact, customization, branding and localization is even easier than before. To run Oempro4, you will need to have safe_mode turned OFF and enable_dl turned ON in your server PHP.INI setting file.

In following days, we will publish a test application which will test your server settings and decide if Oempro4 can run on your server or not. It’s designed and developed to run on almost all VPS and dedicated servers. Shared hostings will not be supported but Oempro4 can still be used on shared hostings even we do not recommend.

Oempro4 System Requirements

Oempro4 mostly works with default settings on your server. However, there are some requirements which should be provided in your server. We will publish a detailed requirements list and test script in following days, but briefly let me list them below:

Server side requirements:

• PHP safe_mode should be turned OFF (default setting in PHP)
• PHP enable_dl should be turned ON (default setting in PHP)
• VPS or dedicated servers (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, etc. – *nix servers recommended)
• PHP5 or higher
• MySQL4 or higher

End user side requirements:

• Safari 3 (or higher), Internet Explorer 7 (or higher), Firefox 2 (or higher) is required for user and administration areas

Upgrading From Oempro3 To Oempro4

Current users of Oempro3 that have active Upgrade and Support Service will be able to upgrade to Oempro4 Corporate Edition for free. To upgrade from Oempro3 to Oempro4 ESP Edition, a small amount of upgrade fee should be paid (will be announced later). Oempro3 users that have purchased OemBilling in the past will be able to upgrade to Oempro4 ESP Edition for free.

Oempro4 is developed from scratch with a better database and backend design. It’s completely different than Oempro3, therefore upgrading *all* data from Oempro3 to Oempro4 is impossible. We will allow Oempro3 users to run both Oempro3 and Oempro4 at the same time until you migrate your data from Oempro3 to Oempro4.

Oempro4 Discussion Forums

We just opened Oempro4 discussion forum, developer forum (for API and plug-in development), plug-in and localization forums at http://octeth.com/forum/

What About Plug-Ins?

Oempro3 users that have purchased Oempro3 plug-ins in the past will be able to start downloading new plug-in versions in December. We are going to release Oempro4 compatible versions of plug-ins in just a month.

Questions? Sure!

Don’t hesitate to contact us anytime. We will be happy to hear from you.

Thank You!

After 10 months of heavy development, Oempro4 is about to be released. We want to thank all our fellow customers who encouraged us with their great feedbacks. Oempro4 is the result of a great co-operation between Octeth and Octeth’s fellow customers. Thank You!

Future?

Oempro4 is now more powerful, more flexible and more extendable. With the power of Oempro4, we will continue adding great features and plug-ins to the family. The best of all, it’s now open to all developers out there. Developers can build their own plug-ins or applications communicating with Oempro4′s state-of-art API.