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<fs smaller>**‘WHITE LABEL KICKSTARTER’?** Producer Alec Peters says a WooCommerce-enabled custom Wordpress site like this will do the heavy lifting in his private crowdfunding effort to pay for Axanar Lite.</fs> <fs x-small>//Image/Envato Market//</fs>

<fs x-small>MAY 10, 2019<wrap indent> | </wrap><wrap indent> 2 MIN READ</wrap></fs>

====== Paying for Axanar Lite Delayed by Late Ares Digital ======

**//Private fundraiser for Axanar may shift away from troubled Ares Digital to more reliable WooCommerce// **

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**Ares Digital 3.0 launch** continues to be "really close," says //[[Axanar]]// producer [[Alec Peters]] in his //[[yout>8UprHUZRfyg|Axanar Update]]//  video — three months after he claimed the fundraising and perk fulfillment platform would be ready.

<WRAP center 90%> <fs smaller>**//See also: [[ares_digital_late|Why Ares Digital 3.0, Two Months Late, Still Isn't Ready]]//** </fs> </WRAP>

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===== Continued delays =====

Continued delays in launching the platform have come from [[:ares_digital_late|user interface problems]] and the fact the developer can only work on the software in his spare time — of which he has little.

===== October shoot plans =====

Peters admitted to //Axanar: Confidential//  viewers Monday night that his plans to begin shooting this fall depend on raising money, and he’s not ready to do that yet.

===== Fundraising platform =====

Ares Digital was to be the means by which Peters plans to raise the $200,000 he says he needs to produce //Axanar//Lite.

==== ‘White Label Kickstarter’ ====

Peters signals he may be moving away from relying on the still unfinished Ares Digital to raise the money for //Axanar// Lite, saying he’s now looking to the [[https://wpfactory.com/item/crowdfunding-woocommerce-wordpress-plugin/|WooCommerce]] platform to handle his private crowdfunding effort, creating a [[https://themeforest.net/category/wordpress?term=crowdfunding woocommerce|Kickstarter-like site]] to handle donations.

==== Minimizing Ares Digital? ====

Once touted as the be-all end-all solution for Axanar, Peters now says WooCommerce will do the heavy lifting, passing along donor information for fulfillment by Ares Digital.

[{{ :terry-headshot.jpg?150| Former Axanar CTO **Terry McIntosh**}}]

===== Trademark Dispute =====

Meanwhile, former Axanar chief technologist Terry McIntosh is preparing to throw a wrench into Peters' branding of Ares Digital. McIntosh posted on Facebook:

>  He's going to be so surprised when he learns that I've spent the $500 and submitted the paperwork to trademark "Ares Digital" with the USPTO [U.S. Patent and Trade Office] last month... *snicker* About two more months until that paperwork comes in and then there will be a rather sharp-tongued C&D sent in his direction.(([[face>groups/axamonitor/permalink/628098631038321/?comment_id=628120581036126&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R%22%7D|Terry McIntosh post to AxaMonitor Facebook group]], 5/7/19.)) 

McIntosh adds that he's set aside money to defend his trademark should Peter pursue litigation:

> Everything remains on the table and the funds have been allocated in case he does something typically Alec which requires formal litigation.(([[face>groups/axamonitor/permalink/628098631038321/?comment_id=628120581036126&reply_comment_id=628136041034580&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R%22%7D|Terry McIntosh post on AxaMonitor Facebook group]], 5/7/19.))

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