Too expensive and in free version limited for personal use

  • thelittlegreenman

    (@thelittlegreenman)


    8 years, 2 months ago

    Sadly it’s just to limited in the free version. Even a calendar is missing and for just personal use it’s just too pricey and I dont support paying every year. A one time fee would be acceptable

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  • Plugin Author upstreamplugin

    (@upstreamplugin)

    8 years, 2 months ago

    Hi @thelittlegreenman

    I’m sorry to hear your disappointment.

    In terms of the business model, UpStream uses the same model as almost every other plugin developer in WordPress. I haven’t seen one-time fees for WordPress software in many years. There are a lot of good posts available about why developers choose annual subscriptions, but the short version is that it’s almost impossible to maintain good software on one-time fees. Unfortunately, your suggestion is a recipe for going out of business.

    In terms of the price for extra features, they start at under $50. Is that really an unacceptably high cost?

    For these reasons, please consider changing your review.

    You can always email us to discuss this more and see how we can help you: help@upstreamplugin.com.

    Thread Starter thelittlegreenman

    (@thelittlegreenman)

    8 years, 2 months ago

    Well a lot of other software developers manage to run it with one-time fees.

    In terms of the price for extra features, they start at under $50. Is that really an unacceptably high cost?
    Yes, if it’s just for such basic features and you had to pay that EVERY year. I invested now some time to discover the plugin and errors are occuring frequently. It’s a fresh wp installation.

    Plugin Author upstreamplugin

    (@upstreamplugin)

    8 years, 2 months ago

    Hi @thelittlegreenman

    Could you help us out and report those errors, please? We’re at help@upstreamplugin.com. We can fix them for you, and for other users.

    Thread Starter thelittlegreenman

    (@thelittlegreenman)

    8 years, 2 months ago

    Hi, sorry, no as an unpaid betatester I dont have the time to fix your errors

    Plugin Author upstreamplugin

    (@upstreamplugin)

    8 years, 2 months ago

    @thelittlegreenman Could you at least report the errors, please?

    No fixing needed at all. Just tell us what happened.

    Sending a 30 second email to help@upstreamplugin.com would be a huge help.

    Most errors are quickly solved. For example, we can help confirm your site meets the requirements: https://upstreamplugin.com/docs/technical-requirements/

    Plugin Author upstreamplugin

    (@upstreamplugin)

    8 years, 2 months ago

    @thelittlegreenman

    For you, and for others who may have the same question in the future, we wrote an explanation of why we use recurring subscriptions: https://upstreamplugin.com/faq/

    We also included links to the thinking of other WordPress developers on this topic.

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