Howto create a trial module

[andy60]

i wanna create a trial module. After the trial period, customermust sign up and receive an autentication code. Is it possible?

[josh.sweeney]

The answer is that it is possible but may not be the best route. Most people who provide trial modules provide a module with limited functionality. Since PHP is not compiled it makes it much harder to protect your code and disable people from bypassing the timeout.

The other options that I can think of are:
1. You have to build hooks all over the application making it harder to bypass the timeout.
2. Provide a demo account on your site that people can log into to play with it.
3. Encode the PHP using a PHP encoder.

[ros.vol]

Trial modules is a really hard thing for OpenSource applications.

I am agree with Josh and recomend you to "provide a demo account on your site that people can log into to play with it"

[sanvercrm]

We provide 30 day free hosted SugarCRM CE on the clients' domain / sub-domain name.

For expiry notification we use the notification feature in Hosting Control Panel. On payment, the Control Panel regularizes the account and the client is informed accordingly. All this happens virtually.

I hope it helps, those looking for a suitable answer.