Setup Cost
In order to carry on with the business efficiently, Agents of Value will adapt a new method in charging setup costs. As a start, you will be charged a fixed amount of setup cost of $275 which is for the agent’s workstation. If you want to add the RAM or the capacity of hard disk for your agent’s PC, there will be one time payment for the cost.
When it comes to the software that your agent will be using, you have three options to choose from.
- You can make use of the open source software that we are using for free like Open Office, Filezilla and Notepad++.
- If you have a particular software that you want your agent to use, you can have it installed in his PC. The company will give it back to you once you want to end your contract with us.
- You can rent software from us. The cost of the software will be added to your monthly bill. If you stop our service in less than a year, we will not charge the remaining months to you. Also, Agents of Value has the right of ownership for all the software.
Here is a table listing the software, the price that you will have to pay monthly, and the corresponding open source software that are for free.
| Software | Monthly Price | Open Source Alternative |
|---|---|---|
| * Macromedia Creative Suite | $268 | |
| Adobe Photoshop | $70 | GIMP |
| InDesign | $75 | |
| Illustrator | $64 | |
| Flash | $75 | |
| Dreamweaver | $33 | Roden Web, Fastweb, Plain HTML |
| Fireworks | $32 | |
| Contribute | $14 | |
| After Effect | $107 | |
| Premiere | $85 | |
| Acrobat | $45 | |
| * Corel Draw X3 | $32 | Intescape |
| * MS Office 2007 | $42 | |
| * WinZip 11.1 | $3 | |
| * WinRAR 3.71 | $3 | |
| * Article Post Robot | $11 | |
| * Article Submitter Pro | $14 | Article Submitter 1.01 |
| * Directory Submitter | $6 | |
| * SEO Administrator | $17 | SEO Explorer |
For those clients who already have agents in Agents of Value and have paid higher than $275, the exceeding amount will be deducted from your monthly bill. You need to confirm that to us before we do so. But if you want a particular software installed in your agent’s PC, that amount will be deducted first to the original cost of the software, and the remaining will be added to your monthly bill.
The company has decided to do this so that it will be clear to you where your payments go. We always want to give the best service we can give to you and give value to what you are paying to us.
