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Save your money!! Dioscouri has one of the worst business models I've ever seen.

Ambra Subs is missing a lot of important features so right off the bat it's NOT worth $70 maybe $35 now and $70 down the road once it's completed. but not $70 right now that's just too much for what you get.

Ambrasubs costs $70 for 1 month of software and support, which would be ok if it worked right and you only needed help setting it up.

It would also be ok if they offered bug fixes and security updates since their software is priced high.

However if you find a bug and it's been 31 days, your out of luck THEY WILL NOT HELP YOU unless you repurchase another $70 support plan.

Here are a few of the problems we had.

The paypal plugin relies on Transaction ID's in order to work properly, This is a problem because transaction ID's are never consistent, if someone uses paypal from another country the transaction ID in their paypal will not match the transaction ID in your paypal account, so ambra subs will not recognize the transaction which will cause you to wast an entire day tracking down missed transactions while dealing with upset customers.

Google Checkout only works under very specific circumstances, which are not very well documented.

We wasted a 2 weeks trying to get Google checkout to work right with ambra. We submitted a support ticket but this problem was not resolved by ambra within the month that our "support" subscription was active, we had to pay a 3rd party to fix the problem.

There are other issues but I think you understand my opinion.

My recomendation is to use AEC not only does it have more features than you'll ever need, it's very afforable at $17 and they will fix the bugs if you find them. They have a similar subscription based model but at $17 and far less problems with the software it's a much better deal.

Using this extension opened my eyes to the security holes I had in my site. While there were a few issues with the initial check this program works really well for being free, definitely a must have for the serious website.

This extension is the greatest development since sliced bread.

We have used this to integrate, Magneto, Moodle and Elgg while everything didn't go flawlessly it did work out in the end, most of the issues we experienced we due in part to our lack of understanding. But for what it does I really don't think there is anything better at bridging the gap to integrate other frameworks that Jfusion.

I've used AEC since it first started, the constant development and the usability make it a great product.

There support is also fairly good. I had one issue with a micro integration and they fixed it for me. Granted the total turn around time on the fix wasn't the fastest I've seen but none the less they didn't ignore me like some companies.

So in my book they are A. OK :)