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Originally Posted by anandat
Hi Carrie,
Why the pricing of this module depends upon number of products or pages ?
This module is not based on SAAS architecture.
Is the code for 500 pages & 50000 page is different ?
If not then I guess it's begining of new kind module pricing strategy.
What happens if tomorrow CDSEO PRO will also have similar kind of pricing strategy for example
up to 100 products $50
100 to 5000 products $149
5001 to unlimited products $249
Your module features are very nice & as you said it works fine any kind of third party mods & template which is just fantastic.
But pricing depend upon number products !  ...Please think over it again. |
Hi,
Thanks for your feedback.
The pricing though isn't based on SAAS. It's priced based upon the benefit to the store owner. A store with 100,000 products is going to get a lot more benefit than a store with just 100 products. Just look at the two demo sites and you can see the speed benefits. The 180 product site cached is 0.0021 seconds and non-cached it is 2.29 seconds. That's a speed increase of 1000 times faster! For the 100,000+ demo the speed goes from 0.0021 cached to 9.6932 seconds not cached. That's a speed increase of over 4600 times faster!
Normally a site with over 100,000 products has to run on a dedicated server. Here you can see one running successfully on a very small VM server. Right there you save several hundred dollars a month. Plus the increased sales and revenue on your site due to how fast it is (customer's won't tolerate slow websites for very long) plus google also gives higher priority on sites that are very speedy. The software could easily pay for itself in just a few months or less depending on what level you need.
It's also similar to the pricing for our Point of Sale and Product Importer Pro. Both of those are also based upon usage and benefit to the store and have been around for many years.
We had considered a flat fee, but the price would have been higher than the current minimum. We wanted though to make it more affordable for all store sizes. We felt having the tiered pricing made sense then to be proportional to how much it helped the store.
I'd be happy though to hear more feedback or if you find the pricing at a certain tier level not to be a good fit. We've already had quite a few orders at the current pricing level so we'd have to take that into consideration if we did decide to change the pricing based upon feedback.
Thank you,
Carrie