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WHMCS Pricing Changes
nathanlopez
Member
WHMCS made some pretty big changes to their license pricing today, including the removal of owned licenses completely (mentioned in the FAQ).
Blog Post: http://blog.whmcs.com/?t=119034
If you manage under 250 active clients in your WHMCS installation, nothing is changing.
Here's how the WHMCS pricing model will look going forward:
Up to 250 Clients $15.95/mo
Up to 250 Clients $18.95/mo
Up to 1000 Clients $24.95/mo
Over 1000 Clients $39.95/mo
Time to move away from WHMCS? Curious to know what others are thinking about this.
Comments
nice
The new pricing will take effect for new subscriptions from today, but for existing subscriptions, nothing is changing today - we are giving existing customers a 6 month grace period for their existing subscriptions: new pricing will not take effect before April 2017.
Nothing to worry just yet.
Nothing to worry just yet.
Oops, forgot to include that important part. Good point though, plenty of time.
They can do what they want to do. Monopol is called.
Cool.
All hosts that complain on LET have > 250 clients, all those that do not complain on LET are near dead pooled.
jokers, its slowly getting worse as a product, the customer support and service is getting more like a scripted call center every day, I wonder what the justification is?
someone just develop a plugin that add's a category as 'current' instead of active, job done.
Bullshit.
Maybe it's because their software hasn't been exploited in a while?
Hmm... Interesting thought
The good side of this is that people will start seeing ClientExec and Blesta as a worthy alternative.
Time to grab an owned license?
To be fair $40 isn't in reality that much if you're managing over 1000 clients, stop being so tight and pay the price!
A tiered system, to be honest its reasonable pricing. If you don't like it use another like Blesta, I dare ya!
Coffee hasn't cooled down enough to chug
I wonder where that leaves people with owned licenses. Will they charge more for updates or will they phase out updates for owned licenses altogether?
Still very reasonable
The new pricing is not that bad or unreasonable. What is worrying is that the WHMCS software will be phoning "home" and submitting information about the current customers (hopefully, just the count). But who knows what information would be submitted, with what granularity and how often? I see a potential privacy problem (or rather a disclosure of trade secrets problem) here.
So there's no more lifetime licenses.. LOL.. i will better translate blesta or hostbill, and thats it.
For me it's an act of greed, and by this act WHMCS is going to lose many potential clients, Blesta on the other side is now in advantage because this will cause a sudden increase in the purchases of Blesta licenses.
They removed owned licenses, Now that's what i call gambling.Moreover they are all and all so i think that this price would also change and go high, not now maybe in 2k18 or 19 but eventually their greed will make this happen.
thank you.
It's a normal business move. Those having 250+ customer's just can't afford to switch to a different platform. Those having more than 1000 ... well you get what I mean.
After all, they didn't just reinvent the wheel because other software vendors messed up with license pricing long before WHMCS.
Imho this progressive pricing policy is morally fair and I'd wish other vendors would have adopted it long before too.
Blesta and clientexec will be always like directadmin and vestacp for cpanel.
Looks like they removed the branding on the higher licenses
So, what happens with owned license holders?
Not going to happen, even the last WHMCS hack did not make people jump ship, this certainly won't cause it.
existing customers a 6 month grace period for their existing subscriptions: new pricing will not take effect before April 2017.
I read that as only for monthly license holders. Shame
it is clear to me
existing customers
It's unreasonable because it's what they want instead of what customers want.
Did any customer say "I want you to eliminate the owned license option"?
Look at the bright side: someone will hack it (I mean, it's WHMCS, so it's probably a plain-text POST) and you'll be able to buy the 1-client tier forever.
I'm sure this will never be exploited.
I think the main reason there isn't a FOSS WHMCS alternative is that coding billing software SUCKS. It's such an interesting problem space...because there are no problems, it's just boring forms.
Still, replacing WHMCS is tempting.