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Re: Pricing Pages – A Curated Gallery of Pricing Page Designs

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Post by Terretta »

mdaniel wrote: post #20

I didn't dig through the infinite scroll (ironic on a page about designs) but I'm surprised more than half of them weren't dedicated to obfuscating the prices, as has been the vast majority of my experience with trying to figure out how much money I need to give anyone call us let's talk! or my other pet peeve https://lucidic.ai/#:~:text=Get%20started%20for%20free aka don't worry about it until you like it!

WITHOUT ever speaking to anyone on the phone or by email, you can scale even $1M a month and get auto-scaled (very deep) discounts with big providers like AWS who certainly have enough "enterprise sales" to waste everyone's time on the phone, suggesting there's no good reason to make anyone talk to your SaaS if they don't have to.

If they have to, because they don't know how to use what they buy, that's one thing. But don't force a call to, let's say, sign in with OIDC or turn on audit logs.

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Post by martypitt »

jasonkester wrote: post #27
xz18r wrote: post #3

The SaaS internet is so boring! These are like carbon copies of each other.

I had one of those for S3stat for a while. It lost decisively in A/B tests to the ugly wall of text that it replaced, so that’s what’s up there today: https://www.s3stat.com/Pricing.aspx I’m still waiting for the next generation of trendy SaaS companies to crib it.

> "We'll even put on a little tie when we talk to you on the phone".

Love it.

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Post by yread »

mdaniel wrote: post #20

I didn't dig through the infinite scroll (ironic on a page about designs) but I'm surprised more than half of them weren't dedicated to obfuscating the prices, as has been the vast majority of my experience with trying to figure out how much money I need to give anyone call us let's talk! or my other pet peeve https://lucidic.ai/#:~:text=Get%20started%20for%20free aka don't worry about it until you like it!

Yeah, I'm looking for some GRC compliance software and there are so many vendor with pricing page that just has 3 columns of Call us! Why even bother?

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Post by burnte »

This is the second most important page on your website. The first is a clear description of the product. Without a pricing page people immediately think your pricing and contracts are predatory and probably covering up product deficiencies with contractual lockins.

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Post by GuinansEyebrows »

alberth wrote: post #33
jongala wrote: post #30

I don't know if they were the first but I think of 37signals and Basecamp as the ones that first nailed the multi-column/highlighted plan form of design that has become so dominant. Here's 2009: https://web.archive.org/web/20090307125843/http://www.baseca... if you go back to 2007 you can see the same structure in a plainer presentation; it's easy to see how they went from one to the other: https://web.archive.org/we…

… and neither Hey nor Basecamp (both from 37Signals) use that layout style anymore. https://www.hey.com/pricing/ https://basecamp.com/pricing

huh, to me they look really, really similar, just a little more emphasis/direction on the basecamp page and a simpler set of offerings with more details each for hey.com.

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Post by bluGill »

yread wrote: post #44
mdaniel wrote: post #20

I didn't dig through the infinite scroll (ironic on a page about designs) but I'm surprised more than half of them weren't dedicated to obfuscating the prices, as has been the vast majority of my experience with trying to figure out how much money I need to give anyone call us let's talk! or my other pet peeve https://lucidic.ai/#:~:text=Get%20started%20for%20free aka don't worry about it until you like it!

Yeah, I'm looking for some GRC compliance software and there are so many vendor with pricing page that just has 3 columns of Call us! Why even bother?

They bother because they don't want competitors to price match or beat their prices. if the prices (and changes are hard to learn about they think they can compete better). I'm not sure if it is worth it - many do go elsewhere to find clear pricing, but they think it matters.

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Post by dylan604 »

bluGill wrote: post #48
yread wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I'm looking for some GRC compliance software and there are so many vendor with pricing page that just has 3 columns of Call us! Why even bother?

They bother because they don't want competitors to price match or beat their prices. if the prices (and changes are hard to learn about they think they can compete better). I'm not sure if it is worth it - many do go elsewhere to find clear pricing, but they think it matters.

It also means that the price isn't fixed, and that a good negotiator might be able to get a lower price than someone else. The whole "call us" also typically lowers the noise on the vendor's end as well. Anyone willing to take time out to contact them would be a much better chance of closing a sale. They are what would be known as the "good leads". If you're a user and researching multiple vendors with similar services/products/apps that have decent $$$ attached, you'd be a fool to not contact and only pay the price on the tin.
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