INTERNET PROFIT UNIVERSITY
JV Manager Review
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JV Manager, by John Delavera, is promoted as an all in one ecommerce package allowing the sale of digital products (you provide your own payment processor), with recording of sales by affiliates so they can be paid.
There are quite a few similar packages available, but this one is particularly expensive.
Overall, JV Manager turned out to be incredibly complex, rigid in its shopping cart payment process, and absurdly difficult to manage and setup.
For example, JV Manager rigidly imposed a number of steps a would be purchaser has to go through to make a purchase - steps and additional screens that are unnecessary and which lead to shopping cart abandonment.
Despite hours spent on the software (mainly trying to get it work in an effort to justify its high cost), and having it setup for trial runs, it had to be abandoned as simply not useful or productive - especially in light of easy to setup - and free - ecommerce and shopping cart alternatives that are readily available.
On the other hand, the software does appear to work. Hence, the tepid C grade.
JV Manager according to its website was apparently renamed Fantasos. The 'SOS' part would certainly be appropriate given the maddening and frustrating complexity of this software.
Then Fantasos was renamed as Delavo.
When a product starts getting renamed, and then renamed again, that is in my view a red-flag for a potential problem.
One would expect that a successful product would keep its name because that is what users are talking about - in a good way.
Goodwill can be very important, so make what you will of the continuing new product names.
The ultimate renaming to Delavo, obviously based on the creator Delavera's last name, could also be the result of an ego maniacal personality.
After further interaction with John Delavero, my opinion is that he is a prick. Which is too bad.
Due to the mediocre evaluation of JV Manager, which did not come with lifetime support - but in fact expensive future support options (which should not be necessary), there was little incentive to try the Fantasos or Delavo versions to add to this review - and Delavera's subsequent behavior only established that no additional products from him will be purchased.
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