Pricing questions are about the strategies, tactics, processes and decisions for directly monetizing products and services.
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Customer flexibility first - Monthly and/or Yearly charges?
We have one application sold to users - they make documents with it. These documents are then sold to their clients.The client must have the reader to view the media rich document. We make and sell ...
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Mobile Software Pricing - How do I find the right price?
My startup is developing a mobile web application for an established enterprise ERP/CRM software package.
The software is essentially a mobile web application that is installed on the customers ...
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Proper Price to Charge Clients for Various SLAs
I am the co-owner of a small web development firm. We offer Ruby on Rails programming for our clients which mostly consist of small companies. We typically charge $80-$110 per hour. For 2/3 of our ...
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Determining Price for Data
I have some data that I think is valuable. I have looked at my potential market and I believe there are three potential buyers. While this data is valuable, I believe the market is small. I feel I ...
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Should I show pricing on a test landing page?
I put up a test landing page for a SAAS product/service that I think has potential. My goal is to test the market to see if there is enough interest to justify building out the product/service.
The ...
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What is the right fee or model to charge professional services to an enteprise project?
I have seen some charge by the hour and others by the project...wha'ts the best approach and why? If you charge lets' say $1500 per day and your costs are a part time Project manager, a business ...
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Starting New School 3rd Question
I've been discussing with my colleagues on how best to price the school. We've come up with some really innovative solutions.
-Charge per session, allowing students to skip sessions that don't ...
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Pricing strategy for SAAS based products
I am looking for any references/case-studies/whitepapers on pricing strategies for SAAS based products. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Mohit
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Monthly or Annual Subscriptions? Or Both?
I wanted to know what people's opinions were on monthly versus annual subscriptions. If I did go with annual payments it would offer a discount over the month-to-month costs for the year.
Anyways, ...
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How do freemium services/open source softwares etc. make ends meet?
From a long time, I have been wondering how do services which are free or based on freemium models operate? Open source free softwares like Firefox, VLC player (if you are aware of it) or other free ...
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Higher pricing for Apple in-app purchases
I'm contemplating pricing for my product. It is an internet based game that is sold via subscription. I planned on a price point of $1/month. I can process a credit card subscription for about 3% ...
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How to get an LLC license for my Blog business?
I've been blogging for a while now and I would like to establish my blog as a business (LLC). I heard that its the best license that suits a blog business.
Any suggestions as to where I can get the ...
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How to determine competitor's pricing model when impersonating a customer is challenging
This question accompanies my recent previous question, Are there any methods you can think of to determine a comptetitors pricing model under these stipulations:
The pricing sheet is not publicly ...
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For market segmentation pricing… what is better for a software product: by features or by capacity?
what do you think is a better style for market segmentation pricing of a software product?...
Option A: By features (Spreadsheet software example)
- Edition Lite: $100 (features: macros and printing)
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Free trial in a tiered SaaS application
Suppose I have a SaaS application which has several subsctiption plans (think "Basic" for 2 users and this much of storage space, "Starter" for 5 users... you know the drill)
What will be the the ...
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Why don't usability testing companies succeed?
There seems to be a big demand for website feedback, usability and review services. However, companies that offer these services are not making much profit?
For example, Concept Feedback stopped ...
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How to display complex pricing in a friendly way
I'm launching an online service which is designed to bring together a lot of different services into one package, all manageable online.
The problem I've got is how to handle the pricing. The price ...
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Pricing software
I'm about to launch a new program in a space that has several large competitors, my program works equally as well but as it's version 1.0 its missing a few features and a bit of polish. My competition ...
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Shall I distribute a text application for free (to promote the brand) or sell it?
I have written a simple but powerful text application which can be plugged in into many existing projects. I think many people (individuals, start-ups and big businesses) would like to have it, but ...
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What techniques do you use to see if your product or service provides Value?
I use a simple formula to define value . Benefits - Costs = Value
But the key thing to note is that what you think are benefits for the customers might not be perceived as benefits. Asking them ...
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Pricing for the first customer
We have a software that we use to service our customers. The software processes certain state regulation documentation for a specific industry. We are starting to market this product to our ...
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$1 Per Download
What do you think of $1/download idea ? For example if you've designed wordpress theme its still basically free to use but to download it you would pay $1 for it. This eliminates the need for ...
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How much to charge for sponsorship spot on my blog?
I have been asked how much do we charge for a sponsorship or an ad in our blog... what is a fair price, do you charge per month, size, location in page? any tips will be greatly appreciated.
The ...
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Pricing Model for Consumer Product
I am involved with a product and have finalized the SRP and the wholesale price . We have been approached by a distributor that has a large niche customer base that would like to distribute the ...
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Should the pricing be institutionalised?
I am in the process of launching my firm which will supply business promotion merchandise like bags, apparels, gifts, gadgets and so on. As the business owner I would be deciding on the margins ...
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Are Android users less likely than iPhone users to spend money on apps?
I've been told that Android users are less prone to download paid apps compared with iPhone/iOS users. Is this true?
I haven't yet researched this matter or found any useful statistics but since ...
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Setting fixed prices on non fixed cost?
I'm wondering whether any of you use services from outside your country to provide a service inside your country. If so, how do you go about setting your prices? For example, if I had a website ...
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Pricing it right
I don't have retail experience and what I need to price is SAAS, however I am aware of the psychological factors when it comes to pricing. $19.95 is a heck better than $20, even though the price is ...
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What's the best book on pricing you've ever read? [closed]
What's the best book you've ever read on pricing?
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How can I cope with price/cost inquiry tactfully?
I'm a private English-Chinese interpreter in China. People often send Email to me to ask my rate. As soon as I tell them my rate, they often don't contact me any more. I don't think my rate is very ...
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Does choice of plans attract more users, or is simpler better?
I'm curious if there's any research / suggestions around pricing models - specifically offering more choice vs keeping it simple.
Ie., I plan of offering a Software as a Service model, and charging ...
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When do subscription services charge you every month? When does that payment period end?
When subscription based services charge you a monthly fee, when do they charge it? First of the month? Same date next month? 30 days from original pay?
For example if I pay for a subscription on the ...
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Determining the pricing of a cloud service intended for businesses
We will soon be meeting for the first time with several of our potential customers which are chain-stores to which we will be selling our service.
I don't want to uncover too much information about ...
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Selecting a Pricing structure-How to offer free membership?
We are nearing the launch of our website which is a wholesale marketplace and network, which hosts transactions between Buyers and Sellers. We are deciding between two offers for a period of free use ...
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Moving customers from free to paid
I've got a subscription service with a free tier. Initially, the free tier was far too generous. We've since significantly lowered what that free tier provides. However, we had grandfathered in ...
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SaaS limitations for high-volume but low-profit organisations?
We are providing a SaaS Service (currently in open beta) and thinking about our pricing tiers. We want to offer plans that grow at the same pace that our customers businesses grow.
We are thus ...
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Freemium business model in beta (would this work?)
I am starting an online b2b networking portal. It is somewhat comparable to linkedin in a sense that most of the content is user generated, meaning more users it has more attractive service becomes. ...
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Convenience fees for third parties
We're looking into building a site that would facilitate receiving payments online for places that do no have this capability. There's more to the site than receiving payments, it also makes sure ...
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Subscription payments for download software
We will be licensing 2 downloadable software products, both aimed at animation / game development professionals / studios (1 plugin, 1 SDK / library) where subscription pricing is not currently ...
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What's the best approach for dealing with region-specific tax when selling online?
I'm launching a product shortly which is an online service and has (I think) a global market. As a business, I have to charge sales tax* which means I have to add an amount to every sale to give to ...
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What are things customers could do for a discount?
I have a friend who runs a business that decorates special events. He deals a lot with customers who's budget is much less than his normal prices, but he normally just gives them huge discounts ...
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How to set the price to optimize equipment utilization?
I'm in a technical position, soon to be launching a service company that receives orders from electronic component manufacturers to perform laboratory measurements on their products, charging them for ...
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How the pricing strategy of an eye-tracking service should be set up?
What price would you pay for remote eye-tracking services? (per capita)
Considering the following
* results delivered in 24 hours
* reliability of the test would be arond 80-90%
* pricing based on ...
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How to charge a customer for a tailor-made solution (ERP)?
We are designing a tailor-made ERP application for a SMB customer whose processess are very specific and have been very succesful for the last 20 years. Question is: How to charge for the project? ...
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Website Advertisement Pricing Model
I am currently working on integrating and advertisement/advertising module into a online management system I am creating.
The question is this...
What is the best way to determine pricing for ...
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What would you charge for this app?
We are in talks with our first app-development client, who are first-time app-development customers and have done no research on custom app pricing or gotten other bids. It's been a bit of a ...
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Pricing using Westendorp's Price Sensitivity Meter
I have just read a study (german) that applied Van Westendorp's Price Sensitivity Meter to determine a reasonable price range for a SaaS offering. Specifically, the study tried to investigate the ...
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How do I convince a client to use a computerised accounting system?
This is marketing question but don't know where to ask it.
My possible client is relying in traditional manual accounting system. I want to convince him to use acomputerised accounting system.
As an ...
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Pricing for very first web app
My question concerns pricing and I hope someone here will offer us the benefit of their experience. A friend is moving from avid autodidactic tinkerer to professional web app developer this week ...
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When should we start showing prices?
For a company that has just started, when should we show prices to customer? Right when the application is live on day one or when the application is stable enough to be used by real customer?
What ...
