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How does purchasing a track from SongTrellis work?

When you decide to purchase one of our backing tracks, you will press the "PayPal - Add To Cart" button that is displayed below the description of the track you wish to purchase on a sales page within the BernardChinn subsite of SongTrellis.

Each time you press a "PayPal - Add To Cart" button, that track's name, price and item number is transmitted to shopping cart page hosted by PayPal and your order for the track is added to the shopping cart. When you are ready to complete your purchase, you press the "Checkout" button that shows at the bottom of your shopping cart.

In response, the PayPal site will display a page which allows you to enter your billing information. This requires that you enter your billing information, email id and your charge card number. When you authorize PayPal to complete your purchase, PayPal will email you a confirmation of the sale and then return control to the SongTrellis server which will show a page that summarizes which tracks you've purchased.

PayPal, a subsidiary of E-Bay, acts as the clearinghouse for your purchase and is responsible for protecting your charge card information. Their systems debit your charge account and deliver the purchase amount to SongTrellis's account with PayPal. SongTrellis never has access to your charge account inumber which relieves it of the necessity of protecting it. PayPal, which has massive resources available for the effort, is able to run its site in an extremely secure fashion to protect your account.

Usually in a few seconds, PayPal will automatically notify the SongTrellis server that your charge card has succesfully been charged and that the funds for the purchase have been deposited to SongTrellis's PayPal account. On receipt of this notification, the SongTrellis server creates a login account on the BernardChinn subsite using your email ID as the login ID plus a randomly generated password and then creates pages that can only be accessed using your email ID and password. Finally, it emails you your password and the URLs to the access pages for the tracks you've purchased.

Once you've received the password and URL's from SongTrellis, you can click on one of the URL's listed in the email to access the track you've purchased. If you have never before signed in with the BernardChinn subsite, you will need to login using the email id you used in the purchase and the password SongTrellis emailed you.

Once you are logged in, you will see a BernardChinn page load into your browser that plays the complete track as a background sound and which has a link labelled "Download/View this sound" and three links for scores one of which will supply you with the chord changes for the track in concert key, plus other which show the chord symbols transposed for Bb and Eb instruments.

By right clicking (for Windows) or Option-clicking (for Mac) above the links provided you can download the MIDI sequence that contains the backing track and can also download the GIF images of the scores.

You will be given access to your track's playback page for a year until the one year anniversary of your purchase.