Jan 24

iPhone app and Freemium pricing - both capped a great week

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Last week was a great week at Chargify. The team is normally spread out across the USA, but last week we all worked together in Sacramento, CA.

Two exciting and useful developments happened over the weekend:

  1. iPhone App: our brand new Chargify to Go! app is available for free download from the iTunes App Store. Keep track of your signups, total customer count, monthly revenue, and annual revenue.
  2. Freemium Model Support: our fees are based on the number of paying customers that you (our customers) manage through Chargify. That’s what’s on our pricing page right now. But we have also added a “Freemium add-on package”. It’s pretty simple: 1) You can manage up to 1,000 free users through Chargify and we will not charge you anything for those users; 2) Beyond that, you will be charged $10/month for each additional block of 1,000 free users. For instance, if you have 5,000 free users, you will be charged $40/month for those users (rates for your paying customers are shown on our pricing page).

We’re really happy about both developments. Our iPhone app is useful and fun for just about every customer (at least with an iPhone), and our Freemium add-on package opens the door for our customers who are using Freemium models and who would like the advantages of processing all users (free & paying) through Chargify.

Download Chargify to Go! for iPhone directly from Apple: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chargify-to-go/id351297351?mt=8

This sounds like some great progress. A couple questions:

1. You link to the page where you outline monthly fees and this "freemium" pricing, but the prices don't seem to be reflected on the site. Where is this 1000 free users, $10 for 1000 more in the signup page?

2. You are announcing all of this but you are still in beta. When is it opening up since none of us can even play with any of this?

-Rob Bazinet
By Robert Bazinet on January 26, 2010 at 10:03 AM
Hi Robert,

Thanks for commenting.

Our web team in Boston has a number of priorities, so they haven't updated the pricing page, yet, which is part of the reason I wanted to get our Freemium package on the blog. It's real and official grin.

Regarding using Chargify, you can sign up for the beta and then let us know via Twitter (@chargify) and we will enable your account. We have been letting people in more and more as we grow our dev team over the past month.

Thanks, again.
By Lance Walley on January 26, 2010 at 01:45 PM
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