Dear Lovely Simplerista,
Phew!
This is something I've been working on for ages! Really!
I started work in this feature in December of 2011. That's more than a year and a half ago!
I've definitely learned something about breaking new feature development down into much smaller chunks that I can deploy much more quickly and then refine from there. There's zero value to you in a feature that I have in development but haven't yet deployed. So that's my commitment to you: Much smaller changes that you can see the benefit to more quickly. (And I do have some very nice features in the pipeline - my vision for zenbilling is immense, and we've only gotten started...!)
The new pricing feature is the most flexible and powerful pricing engine I have ever seen anywhere. I'm really proud of what we've been able to accomplish with this.
Here's a few examples of what it lets you do:
- Set a special price for when people sign up 2 or 5 or more participants at a time
- Mix and match time-limited (recurring) purchases with one-time (lifetime) purchases of the same product
- Mix durations, so you can offer 1-month, 3-month, 6-month, or 12-month access choices for the same product
- Allow the price and periods for subscription products to change over time, so you could let it drop after 3 months of membership or have a different price fro the first month
- Allow customers to turn off auto-renewal, so they can let their membership expire at the end of the current period
- And much much more....
Check out the video and see what you'd like to do with it.
Love,
-Calvin