Changed Pricing to one-time payment $50 for perpetual use, with future updates at $10 one-time payment each time

Why one-time payment?

Capitalize on the notion of an impulse buy. $50 for perpetual use is pretty affordable (I guess). Besides, paying yet another subscription for a site that just sits there most of the time had always felt dissonant even to myself (why would I pay $5 every month for that?). So one-time feels more palatable. One-time payment with no future updates also mean less tech burden on my part. I can quite literally set and forget (unless there's bug or issues with their current version of Sheet2Bio of course).

Will see how this unfolds and iterate accordingly!

[UPDATE:] Changed to $10 as per discussion with @poppacalypse
Carl Poppa 🛸

just a note on the upgrade - it makes me think i have to pay $20 per update. What if Jason decides to update 3 times a year? do i have to pay $60 for all 3 new features?

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Carl Poppa 🛸

it's a different model for sure, not one i've come across before 😄 can't advise on lower price, only way to find out is to try! i might pay if it's a feature i really really REALLY want

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Jason Leow Author

Only if you want access to the new features and want to upgrade though… do you mean you understand it as mandatory upgrades?

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Jason Leow Author

Yeah exactly! In my head, I was assuming not everyone will choose to upgrade every time I release a feature set, but only when they really want it. But it's still good feedback nonetheless. Maybe $20 is a tad high in proportion to $50 (anchoring effect). Will go for $10-15

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Carl Poppa 🛸

not mandatory. but it might be interpreted as $20 per update, isn't that a lot? $20 per year for all new updates within the year sounds more reasonable.

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Jason Leow Author

Hmm ok. That's true too. I was trying to avoid a timeframe for each payment as it makes it more complicated to understand + implement. Would lowering price then make it better? $10 per upgrade?

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Jason Leow Author

@poppacalypse Decided to try out the one-time license idea you suggested! Just to simplify pricing at this early stage

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