If I wanted to have someone test some items before starting a shop how would I go about it?

After finding volenteers to volenteer how do the pros get the items to the volenteer testers?

I'm completely new to this end of sales.

And in addition to the above...

Are there any merchants or otherwise with any advice before one might start to sell items?

Thoughts along the line of, "geez wish I had known that before I sarted selling".

Thanks for any and all replies.

Scott

You can just post a request for testers in the Poser or jobs forum, and then see who replies.  When I have been involved in testing its usually been emailed in the zip file that would be used for a purchaser.

The other way is to post it to your website or a file share site and send the tester the link. 

Sending the zip  tests the installation and that the product is complete. If its early beta testing then just zip and send whatever file is being tested.

There used to be a free merchant utility that would check version numbers, file path length for mac versions. I dont know if it is still available. The version number in files should be the lowest version the product works in , it used to be 4.01 or just 4 . You could probably use 5,6 or 6 now.  If you dont do that the user will get error messages and possibly a lot of them, which is bad. Also check that the file paths  are relative paths and that no geometries are embedded.  There were some python scripts that would automate that process.

Many Thanks.

There used to be a free merchant utility...

I will look into this.

I see in the faq that there is a readme creator.

Also now curious if there are any other utilitys available for merchants?

Scott