Originally Posted by borked

I guess only one person can answer this, but thought I'd throw it out there to see if people agree. In these times of economic instability, paying leasing fees for software is often seen as an easy way to cut back on overheads.

Personally, I wouldn't know, but I've had a good handful of clients move away from NATS to more lightweight or free affiliate admin tools, which is fine as they still pay me to skin their new backends etc. However, besides the obvious, the reasons that resound are NATS is too complicated and I only use a fraction of what it does.

Which is true, it is a beast of a tool, and will support the single-site webmaster or the multi-site, multi-partner, multi-biller setup. And for what it doesn't support, you know those niggly things that have helped nats grow, a TMM ticket and discussion their end usually ends up with NATS supporting that feature.

However, at a couple hundred per month for the full whack, would it not be prudent to slim down nats to a "Lite" version for the much smaller site owners and offer it at a reduced cost? If so, what should go?