Pricing Questions


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4 Answers
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How to communicate an increase in the yearly maintenance license?

I am selling an enterprise system. So far there has been no real sales-volume, so I do not have any price model to publish. The few customers I have are really happy with the solution. My...

asked Jun 20 '11 at 19:28
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I Like Traffic Lights
16 points

5 Votes
3 Answers
2.94K Views
Free trials and future pricing for early adopters

Ive been thinking about how to deal with early adopters of a SaaS web application in terms of ramping them up from free trial early access users to fully paying customers. Im wondering if there...

asked Jun 2 '11 at 13:41
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Tinny
404 points

4 Votes
2 Answers
2.36K Views
How to fund start up through a one off project and turn it into a product rather than a contract piece of work?

Background: I have been asked by a company to put together a proposal to build a highly specialised piece of software. The company is a new player in the financial sector who needs to have this...

asked May 24 '11 at 01:23
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Patrick
123 points

3 Votes
3 Answers
2.72K Views
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...

asked May 25 '11 at 23:15
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Stacey
484 points

5 Votes
2 Answers
3.16K Views
How to set your price in USD and EUR?

Many US-based companies charge the same amount in the US as in Europe: a certain item will cost 100 USD when bought in the US, and 100 EUR when bought in Europe. This really means that the European...

asked May 11 '11 at 21:37
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Philippe
297 points

3 Votes
6 Answers
3.36K Views
Can Price be the ONLY competitive advantage?

I am just venturing into a new product and one thing I realised is that "Price is the ONLY one advantage" I have. I have solid web-development experience and I can build web apps in a fraction of...

asked May 17 '11 at 04:42
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User8226
197 points

5 Votes
6 Answers
5.44K Views
How do I price website advertisements?

We want to start selling ad space on our niche website, however are unsure at what factors make up the ad price. We will start offering ad space once we are getting 3k-5k visitors per month. Based...

asked May 6 '11 at 02:54
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Sam
509 points

1 Votes
1 Answers
3.11K Views
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...

asked May 7 '11 at 11:33
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User9306
13 points

3 Votes
5 Answers
4.07K Views
How should I price our SaaS for resellers?

Our product is a platform for organizing health related games. Our customers are corporate wellness coordinators, and the games are played in the context of their company. One of our strategies is...

asked May 8 '11 at 22:08
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Ryan B
86 points

3 Votes
3 Answers
2.78K Views
Are there any reasons not to sell software to large enterprises solely for a quarterly fee?

I am about to give an offer for software to a large enterprise. I know that it is normal to say that there is an upfront price for software and a yearly maintenance fee of around 18% of the upfront...

asked May 9 '11 at 06:06
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David
1,567 points

4 Votes
1 Answers
3.13K Views
How to price a software "per project" relatively to its "per seat" price?

By targeting multiple segments, we have to price our software according to different schemes. We are currently thinking about defining a "per project" license. We are doing the following...

asked May 9 '11 at 23:00
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Pillona
355 points

5 Votes
2 Answers
8.97K Views
How to price a White Labeled or CoBranded Web App?

I run a startup web app that is an informational resource as well as marketplace. The marketplace side has been slow to ramp up, so revenue is minimal. Recently, I've been contacted by several...

asked Apr 27 '11 at 08:40
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Mister Eee
28 points

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2 Answers
2.17K Views
Pricing. Do you think USD120/Day is a reasonable rate for an English-Chinese translator in Mainland China?

When you need a translator to accompany you to factories, what rate do you think is reasonable for an English-Chinese translator in Mainland China?

asked May 1 '11 at 14:13
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Steven
1 point

3 Votes
6 Answers
2.86K Views
Web app pricing in EUR or USD?

I'm about to launch my own web app. Being in Europe and thinking about pricing I'm wondering if I should charge in EURO or US DOLLAR? I have no concrete numbers, but I expect 70-80% of the...

asked Apr 20 '11 at 19:46
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Stephanos
116 points

1 Votes
2 Answers
3.21K Views
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...

asked Apr 11 '11 at 09:16
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User9306
13 points

3 Votes
4 Answers
3.1K Views
Should I raise the price of my product?

I'm the owner of this site and the product offered there. As you can see, the current price is $29.95. It is very cheap compared to most web scrapers like this. There are two reasons why I want...

asked Apr 6 '11 at 12:42
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Jsoldi
118 points

9 Votes
4 Answers
3.01K Views
Giving away a software program for free: competitors' responses?

I have a small startup that developed a software program. I've copyrighted the software and am working on patent protection, and I've started some marketing. It has been a very low-cost effort so...

asked Mar 19 '11 at 12:11
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User6492
1,747 points

7 Votes
5 Answers
6.06K Views
What advantages does price discrimination have over the using the same price for everyone?

I'm trying to decide whether to change my pricing scheme from 'the same price for everyone' to 'a different price depending on which customer you are' (price discrimination / price...

asked Mar 4 '11 at 20:13
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Steven
1 point

2 Votes
2 Answers
2.76K Views
What's the best book on pricing you've ever read?

What's the best book you've ever read on pricing?

asked Mar 6 '11 at 00:58
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Steven
1 point

5 Votes
1 Answers
4.6K Views
What should a small company charge for development of a mobile (Android) app?

The context of this question is a small web design company that wants to branch out to do mobile application development. I am wondering two things: What average hourly fee do you charge a client...

asked Mar 9 '11 at 10:17
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Jbranchaud
168 points