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Use this form to submit or update your PAD files. Use the Remove PAD Form to remove your PAD file from the database. All PAD files are polled regularly so resubmission after an update is not required unless you want to change program categories. All submissions must be compliant with the Submission Policy.

Submission Policy

Products submitted to the Software KB Directory must be appropriate for general audiences, and must fit reasonably into our file categories. We review all submissions, and remove and blacklist inappropriate submissions.

Updated listings appear immediately; new submissions don't appear until reviewed.

While there are many good free software products, too many free programs are trivial, paid for by spyware, or untested, so we don't list free products here.

All submissions for software products must be made on behalf of the publishers of the software. Submission of third-party affiliate links is not allowed.

PAD Files

This site requires PAD file format version 1.1 or later. PADGen version 1.2 or later supports this format.

The following fields are required:

/ XML_DIZ_INFO / Company_Info / Company_Name
/ XML_DIZ_INFO / Program_Info / Program_Name
/ XML_DIZ_INFO / Program_Info / Program_Version
/ XML_DIZ_INFO / Program_Info / Program_Release_Month
/ XML_DIZ_INFO / Program_Info / Program_Release_Day
/ XML_DIZ_INFO / Program_Info / Program_Release_Year
/ XML_DIZ_INFO / Program_Info / Company_Website_URL
/ XML_DIZ_INFO / Program_Info / Contact_Info/Contact_Email
/ XML_DIZ_INFO / Program_Info / Program_Type
/ XML_DIZ_INFO / Program_Info / Program_OS_Support
/ XML_DIZ_INFO / Program_Info / Program_Cost_Dollars
/ XML_DIZ_INFO / Program_Info / File_Info / File_Size_K
/ XML_DIZ_INFO / Program_Descriptions / English / Keywords
/ XML_DIZ_INFO / Program_Descriptions / English / Char_Desc_450
/ XML_DIZ_INFO / Web_Info / Application_URLS / Application_Info_URL
/ XML_DIZ_INFO / Web_Info / Application_URLS / Application_XML_File_URL
/ XML_DIZ_INFO / Web_Info / Download_URLS / Primary_Download_URL

The following fields are optional:

/ XML_DIZ_INFO / ASP / ASP_Member_Number
/ XML_DIZ_INFO / Web_Info / Application_URLS / Application_Screenshot_URL

Optional Top Listings

Would you like a listing at or near the top of your category?
And a fast review of under a week?
On both Software Knowledge Base and WPList?

We don't guarantee a listing; all programs must be on-topic for this site, legal in the USA, and in compliance with the policies listed for these sites, but if your listing isn't appropriate for at least Software Knowledge Base (www.softwarekb.com) at the time of payment, we'll refund the payment.

How much is a top listing? US$5 per year, but it won't expire. You can pay for as many years as you like, whenever you like. Products are listed by the date of the last prepayment, so if your product is in a category where no one else has purchased a listing, $5 can last forever. If it's a busy category, the top listings are of the products with the largest and/or most recent bids, and then all the older bids, and then the free listings. Updating your PAD file is OK, and won't affect the placement, as long as the PAD URL doesn't change.

Some restrictions apply:
1) If your product isn't appropriate for the specialty desktop publishing site www.wordperfect.org, it will only appear at www.softwarekb.com.
2) If your product becomes inappropriate at some future date, generally because you have changed the product to incorporate malware, or the product does something that has become illegal in the USA, it will be removed, and you may choose to transfer the high listing to a replacement product, within limits that are entirely up to us.

When you visit the Paypal page, you must include the URL to the PAD file so that we can find it quickly, or you may send it to us from here: http://www.sciencetranslations.com/contact