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subscription based models, how to determine pricing ?

so I am nearly ready to launch, however need to determine a pricing for monthly payments by the clients. how do you price it ? each time a user uses the product it costs us money …
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What are Advantages and Disadvantages of Pricing Monthly Subscriptions?

I've recently the post on the question: Subscription Pricing Starting Strategy: start high and lower, or start low and raise? , and I also read the articles and comments for: Qui …
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Different pricing for different countries - good or bad idea?

For a start-up providing a web-app to customers on a subscription basis, do you think that the benefits of different geographic pricing outweigh the downside? My rationale is that …
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How do you raise price?

This is follow-up to my previous question. Inspired by the answers, we did a quick customer survey. We asked the standard question "would you recommend our service to a friend?" an …
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How to do a trial offer?

We'd like to offer 30 day trial for a subscription service. Has anyone experimented with that? We will probably do a bunch of testing with it but I'd really like to hear your ex …
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Reseller Discounts for Annual Maintenance?

We offer our resellers (ones that actively go out and sell to customers) a 25% discount on software licenses. We have just introduced an annual maintenance fee, at 20% of current …
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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 …
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Components of a payments system (end to end)

What are the components of a subscription/payments processing system/platform? Does anyone have a good explanation of how providers like Zuora, Authorise.net etc. come together?
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Annual Maintenance Payments

We are planning on introducing an annual maintenance fee for a new enterprise-level product we will soon be launching. How do you handle when the payments are to be made? For exa …
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Use Spreedly or Chargify or neither?

I plan to add subscription plan(s) to my website (built using ASP.NET). I may be using Paypal as the payment gateway for now. I might consider adding credit card payments in the fu …
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Off-the-shelf paywall?

I'm in the process of building a subscription-based content service. Users pay a monthly fee for one of a number of levels of service, and in return get regular emails and website …