Goplan pricing model

Pedro Freitas on November 23, 2006, Comments (12)

Many users have been asking us about Goplan’s pricing model once its finally released. Now that everything is in place and the much anticipated release day is coming in fast, it’s the right time to discuss how we’ll be pricing our subscriptions. The following table outlines our current pricing model:

As with everything else on Goplan we’re keeping this table open to discussion. As you’ve read from us time and time again in this blog, we want to build a great product and like with everything else, we want feedback in our pricing - so if you have any, please leave a comment or email us. Is it cheap? Is it expensive? Let us know.

Naturally you only need a subscription if you want to create projects - people who will only be accessing these projects don’t need to pay anything. One thing you can also do is share your subscription, so if you are running a few projects and have a few friends that want to run some as well, you may subscribe a bigger plan (giving you more features and less limitations) and share both the subscription and costs - as we have that functionality built into the application.

Comments:

SSL should be standard. No, I mean it. Not only it should be a default for every plan, but all connections should be forceably https. It makes no sense at all to have something that needs authentication and have that authentication unencrypted. And that would also be a statement: “hey, we care for your privacy”.

I agree with your concern about security, but unfortunately certificates are still an investment. I don’t think we’ll force people to use SSL, but we will recommend it, and think about its existence in lower plans.

I assume these prices are per month?

Yes, these prices are per month. Sorry for failing to mention that.

The number of projects - I assume that indicates the number of simultaneous, active projects?

Is there a way to ‘archive’ older projects for storing and documentation, or is it necessary to delete projects?

The free account looks very nicely balanced. To few projects and users to be used proffesionally, but very feature rich for a free service.

The storage limit seems a bit low on almost all pricing models considering the extremely low cost of storage elsewhere. I can see the argument being turned around though - since storage is cheap elsewhere, it isn’t needed here…

If the storage limit is not going to be increased, it would be nice, with at functionality that allows users to add links inside the project to files stored elsewhere. Keeps the project nice and tidy and expands functionality.

All in all though Goplan works very nicely and - albeit a little pricey - looks like a serious contender.

Fred: you’re planning on having one certificate per person? If not, I can’t understand why the cost of certificates are an issue: you just need one, and that’s not _that_ expensive!

Certificates might not be that expensive, but considering that you can serve 10 times the amount of people with the same hardware by not using SSL..

I think two features I would love to see on goplan would be time tracking and the feature to print out invoices. Trust me if you had those 2 options designers would be flocking over to goplan. I mean it makes sense for designers to use just one app (goplan) instead of using basecamp + quickbooks, doesnt it?

Also, I think all PAID plans should come with SSL. It doesn’t make too much sense for me to be shelling out money and not having my data secured. And in regards to price, I think $7-8 for the Personal plan sounds a little more pleasing, but thats just me. Overall, a great product, you guys will be making big $$$ soon.

Looking good, folks. I’ve been looking for something like this for a while now - and I agree with Azeem that timetracking and incoices would make this near-perfect.

I’m trying out sandbox as I type and the work you’ve done so far really makes sense. My only concern is that I’d love to run the software locally on my own webserver as more extranet-type solution. Is there any chance you would introduce a local-install version of this - something along the lines Copper (http://www.copperproject.org) has? I would be very interested on shelling out for something like that…

This is great guys - I am ready to make the leap. BUT - I’ve made a heavy investment of time into Basecamp. I’ve got so much stuff there that migrating is my main deterrent. I’m sure there are others in this situation. You have GOT to provide a Basecamp input tool.

Looks good but.. I really don’t no any person or even company with something even close as 30 projects!

I would limit that ammount several times!

- sorry the crappy English :-), hope you get the point.

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