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Information on the Product Details screen

Field	Description
Category	You can use this drop-down list to assign your product to a category and any applicable subcategories in the BlackBerry App World storefront (for example, Games > Arcade).
Rating	You can use the Add Rating button to answer questions that determine the content rating of your product on BlackBerry App World. The available content ratings are: General: The product is intended for all audiences and does not include violence, sexual content, profanity, drug or alcohol references, simulated gambling, user-generated content, or social networking integration. Teen: The product is intended for teenage audiences, and might include mild or infrequent amounts of violence, sexual content, profanity, drug or alcohol references, or simulated gambling. The product might contain user-generated content or social networking integration. Mature: The product is intended for mature audiences, and might include intense or frequent amounts of violence, sexual content, profanity, drug or alcohol references, or gambling. Adult: The product is intended for mature audiences, and might include extreme depictions of violence, sexual content, profanity, drug or alcohol references, or gambling. After you complete the questionnaire, when Research In Motion approves the product for distribution, you cannot change the content rating. To change the content rating after the product is approved, submit a request to BlackBerry App World administrators at appworldvendorsupport@blackberry.com.
License Type	You can use this drop-down list to specify a license type for your product. You can select one of the following options: Free: Users can download the product for free. Paid: Users must purchase the product before they can download and use it. 7-day subscription: Users can purchase the product or use it for a trial period that you specify. Use the Price drop-down list to specify the price of the initial trial period. Use the Initial Trial Period drop-down list to specify the trial period. If the price of the initial trial period is free ($0), the initial trial period can be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, or 14 days. If the price of the initial trial period is not free ($0), the initial trial period must be 7 days. After the trial period expires, users pay a fee to renew their subscription to the product for 7 days. Use the Renewal Price drop-down list to specify the renewal fee. If the price of the initial trial period is not free ($0), the renewal fee must match the price of the initial trial. Users pay the renewal fee every 7 days. 30-day subscription: Users can purchase the product or use it for a trial period that you specify. Use the Price drop-down list to specify the price of the initial trial period. Use the Initial Trial Period drop-down list to specify the trial period. If the price of the initial trial period is free ($0), the initial trial period can be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 14, 16, 30, 45, 46, or 60 days. If the price of the initial trial period is not free ($0), the initial trial period must be 30 days. After the trial period expires, users pay a fee to renew their subscription to the product for 30 days. Use the Renewal Price drop-down list to specify the renewal fee. If the price of the initial trial period is not free ($0), the renewal fee must match the price of the initial trial. Users pay the renewal fee every 30 days. Note: The Try & Buy license type has been deprecated. You can no longer select the Try & Buy license type for new products that you want to make available on BlackBerry App World. If you have an existing Try & Buy product available on BlackBerry App World, you can continue to submit new releases that use the Try & Buy license type, but you cannot submit a new release that uses the Try & Buy license type and supports BlackBerry 10 or later or the BlackBerry PlayBook OS. After you add a release for a product, you cannot change the license type, regardless of the status of the release or the product. To change the license type of an approved product, you must make the product unavailable on BlackBerry App World and submit it again as a new product with a different license type.
Price	You can use this drop-down list to specify the price that users pay for the product. The drop-down list provides a list of pricing levels.
US Withholding Tax Classification	You can use this drop-down list to select a United States Witholding Tax Classification for your product. The classification is used to determine the amount of US witholding tax, if any, that is applicable to the payments that are made to you for the sale of your product. For more information about the option that you should select for your product, click the help icon next to the drop-down list to read the FAQ document.
Canada Withholding Tax Classification	You can use this drop-down list to select a Canadian Witholding Tax Classification for your product. The classification is used to determine the amount of Canadian witholding tax, if any, that is applicable to the payments that are made to you for the sale of your product. For more information about the option that you should select for your product, click the help icon next to the drop-down list to read the FAQ document.
License model	You can use this drop-down list to specify an option for distributing license keys for your product. You can select one of the following options: Static: Users do not require a license key to run the product. Single: You must provide a single license key that all users can use to run the product. You can specify the license key in the License Key field that appears when you select this option. Dynamic: You must provide a web address for a website that generates license keys. After a user purchases the product, the server for BlackBerry App World connects to the website, retrieves the license key that the predetermined algorithm generated, and provides the user with the license key. You can use the HTTP URL field that appears to specify the web address. For more information about dynamic licensing, visit http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/appworld/faq.jsp. Pool: You must upload a .txt file that contains unique license keys (one key on each line). BlackBerry App World distributes a unique license key to each user that purchases the product. The file must contain at least 100 unique license keys. If the number of license keys drops to 50 or fewer, BlackBerry App World sends you an email message requesting that you add more license keys. If the number of license keys drops to ten or fewer, BlackBerry App World cancels the distribution of your product and sends you an email message requesting that you add more license keys.
Support Email	You can use this field to specify the email address that users can contact for support information for your product. If you do not specify a support email address for the product, the support email address that you specified for your vendor portal membership account is used.
Support URL	You can use this field to specify the URL that users can access for support information for your product. If you do not specify a support URL for the product, the homepage URL that you specified for your vendor portal membership account is used.

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