One of the things we wanted to do when creating the pricing for Flowzit was make sure we didn’t leave casual users out.
There are two main lines of thought about free plans. The first is that a free plan is a trial to give you a taste of what the full application provides. This is great because usually, it is not time limited like traditional native applications that give you 30 days to try something out. However, many times, you don’t get the full functionality, or there are limitations on how much you can consume or how many times you can perform some action. Usually, when this happens, the limitations prevent real work from being done as the goal is to make this a trial.
The other line of thought is that some people just won’t pay for your service regardless of what you give them. We must not be too quick to judge these users as cheap. A great number of them are simply not basing a huge part of their workflow on our system. Maybe they need a quick “one-off” and can’t justify a monthly fee. Or, as increasingly likely in this economy, they are doing work in their spare time because they are unemployed or looking for new work or even moolighting to start a new career.
For the latter, we opened up our Free plan limitations to support that type of work. The idea is, you need a simple service that doesn’t cost anything because you are working on the next big thing in your life. So we’ll be here for you now in the hope that when you are ready for the big time, we’ll be your first choice.
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Mike Wille - I'm the head techie here with a passion and hunger for all things digital. I got into programming because I love to create and couldn't cut a straight line in wood shop.