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Originally Posted by DavieVegas
AJ, when u pay the $150 a month. Say u stay members for a few years. Can that go towards buying the script? Waste of money to lets say pay $150 a month when it comes to over 1800 a year for people who dont have the 7k upfront u know?
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Hi Davie. We don't offer payment plans but we do credit the $500 1 time CMS install/setup fee towards the purchase price if you decide to buy it later.
For us the pricing is easy to justify.
On small scale, a single site or small network might need to make 5 sales a month to pay for the CMS. Large scale, say a program has 30 sites. They're paying about $5 per month per site for the software that manages the sites plus whatever general product support they use plus having someone in the background constantly developing new features and enhancing the software.
In the last 14 months for example we've released 2 new version upgrades and 2 major new offerings (Smarty template version and plug and play mobile). Someone could choose a cheaper CMS solution or one with a low 1 time purchase price (or go custom) but there's no way you'll get that much new coding done over the course of just over a year plus support for $1800.
The $150 month to month lease has worked well for most of our clients. As with any purchase, the value is up to the buyer. Most of our clients feel that what's provided for the fee is of value, those who don't see the value don't buy the product.
AJ