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The pricing is fair, I guess.
But what does frustrate here is that, as a WHMCS Reseller, it makes it more difficult to offer 'Free WHMCS' now. You don't know if you're about to be stung for $12 or $30 cost.
Looks like they are also releasing 7.0 to production today: http://blog.whmcs.com/?t=119046
Tiered pricing seems fair for the hosted version, but makes no sense for a self hosted one
time to develop own billing system.
Ouch...
I laughed when I saw this and "yeah, I saw this one coming"
Still at this price, not yet...
It gives a feeling of Self hosted SaaS though.
Well, at least when they get hacked again, we will see who lies about his active clients count :P
What else do you see coming?
With WHMCS, you pay the SaaS price but have to provide your own infrastructure.
I doubt it's actually "phoning home". I mean it's not hard to write a function inside the script to count how many clients you've got. Then disable your admin access until you have upgraded to the next tier.
Why would you doubt that? It dials home for license verification already.
Development has really ramped up over the last couple years. Hoping this means they'll spend even more on improving the product. Price isn't bad because it's not like I need more than one copy.
I'm pretty sure that license verificación is on whmcs side and not phoning home.
damn, after upload the newest file for upgrade, the page can not displayed.
Can't believe you lot and whinging. They are a business and even the new pricing is so cheap for what it is (the most crucial piece of software your business has). Compare to something like Accelo that does similar automation for other sectors (finish your coffee first).
anyone one you have this issue?
Start a thread about it. This one is about the price changes.
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I wonder how this will affect the reseller pricing, you know, the ones offering whmcs as part of the $10 package price.
This are not affected for now.
I'd imagine they wouldn't be stupid enough to do that, though not impossible.
If I were a provider, I'd be more concerned about how they arrive at the count. You'd want to prune people that sign up and aren't paying and perhaps people who have cancelled. Though, it shouldn't make such a fundamental difference to a company if they're paying $16 or $40 a month.
Still, at least angry customers can create 200 accounts in response to any denial of services
$40 usd is not much for 1k+ clients.
Once you reach 250 active client then WHMCS will not allow to place new order?
Hope, They will not change anything for existing customers. I want to ask question to WHMCS, Why anyone will purchase WHMCS when they can purchase HostBill at $999 lifetime license without customer restriction?
Precisely that. It's just not a very interesting project to work on, and on top of that it only really benefits commercial users. Those two things together make it thoroughly uninteresting for experienced developers to build a FOSS alternative without funding.
^ This. Now fraud detection programs have to catch an abuser even before an account is created.
Another question is should a "client" exist for a whole month for the pricing tier to change? What happens if a lot of people signup and then ask for a refund? This will also affect the money back period offered by hosts.
Looks like owned licensing is gone and they're going to introduce a hosted plan starting at $30/m.
So I could actually be a 1,000+ client user on an eleven2 $15 package reseller... Seems a bit unfair.
Yes - http://www.whmcs.com/price-change-faq/
And there are resellers who are cheaper than $15/mo.