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40% of visitors coming home page goes then onto the demo link. So you MUST have a link to a demo. If you don't plan to provide it, just link to http://demo.dolibarr.org. An entry page "demo" or "try it" must be visible into home page with such link. Links can also be links to your own Cloud hosting system to provide demo, but check next point is ok too.
 
40% of visitors coming home page goes then onto the demo link. So you MUST have a link to a demo. If you don't plan to provide it, just link to http://demo.dolibarr.org. An entry page "demo" or "try it" must be visible into home page with such link. Links can also be links to your own Cloud hosting system to provide demo, but check next point is ok too.
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4b) If you offer a commercial hosting solution (Saas) with online subscription (that can be used as demo or not), you must:
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4b) If you offer a commercial hosting solution (Saas) with online subscription (that can be used as demo or not), check that:
* Also, the link to your commercial solution must point to another page on your own company web site and any prices must appears only on this second page that is your company page, not on the page of the community portal.
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* The link to your commercial solution must point to another page on your own company web site and any prices must appears only on this second page that is your company page, not on the page of the community portal.
* You must also provide links of at least 2 other competitors (goal is to show community project is available on several providers. It's not a problem if your offer is show first but visibility must be equals). Just take a look, to see how it must be on french community portal http://www.dolibarr.fr/demo-en-ligne or english http://www.dolibarr.org/onlinedemo). If you don't want to maintain a list on "ready to use" demo services, you can replace all links (yours and the 2 other competitors) by just one link to: partner.dolibarr.org (choose what is best for you).
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* You must also provide links of at least 2 other competitors (goal is to show community project is available on several providers. It's not a problem if your offer is shown first but visibility must be equals). Just take a look, to see how it must be on french community portal http://www.dolibarr.fr/demo-en-ligne or english http://www.dolibarr.org/onlinedemo). If you don't want to maintain a list on "ready to use" demo services, you can replace all links (yours and the 2 other competitors) by just one link to: partner.dolibarr.org (choose what is best for you). Alternative is to provide no link at all (nor yours, nor any other services).
    
Goal of this rule is to keep a separation between OpenSource project and commercial offers. Don't think this rule will slow down your business, our experience show it is the opposite. Users don't trusts a project that start to show prices (they just do not enter into demo. Trust us, everybody wins to match this rule).
 
Goal of this rule is to keep a separation between OpenSource project and commercial offers. Don't think this rule will slow down your business, our experience show it is the opposite. Users don't trusts a project that start to show prices (they just do not enter into demo. Trust us, everybody wins to match this rule).

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