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

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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?

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Post by dylan604 »

burnte wrote: post #46

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.

So many sites get the first wrong, that you'd just expect the second to be bad as well. So many pages leave you wondering WTF does this do even after reading all of the information of the home page. I hate sites with landing pages before the home page too for sites that only offer the one thing.

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Post by o0-0o »

xz18r wrote: post #3

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

Investor Portal Software Solutions from Investor Portal Pro are custom, built on customer AWS accounts, and based on a toolkit. We'll soon be launching a SaaS version, but not sure I want the pricing pages like these. I want a single price point (per user) that takes people right into the software after paying.

Simplicity is tough, and it's hard to understand which option would be more affordable without a pricing 'calculator'.

Here's our current pricing page (for the on-prem) version

Feedback welcome!

https://investorportalpro.com/pricing.html

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Post by wonginator2001 »

o0-0o wrote: post #53
xz18r wrote: post #3

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

Investor Portal Software Solutions from Investor Portal Pro are custom, built on customer AWS accounts, and based on a toolkit. We'll soon be launching a SaaS version, but not sure I want the pricing pages like these. I want a single price point (per user) that takes people right into the software after paying. Simplicity is tough, and it's hard to understand which option would be more affordable without a pricing 'c…

ngl this looks like ass

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Post by sturadnidge »

dylan604 wrote: post #49
bluGill wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 servic…

I agree re: quality of leads, but also wonder how many sales are lost to competitors _with_ advertised pricing purely because the user didn't want the hassle of talking to sales (maybe not purely, but you get the gist).

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Post by dylan604 »

sturadnidge wrote: post #56
dylan604 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 servic…

I agree re: quality of leads, but also wonder how many sales are lost to competitors _with_ advertised pricing purely because the user didn't want the hassle of talking to sales (maybe not purely, but you get the gist).

Depending on the business, that could be a customer you wouldn't want anyways. Customers looking solely for lowest price tend to be nightmare customers that would in the long run be more expensive as a customer than just not having them as a customer at all.

Companies that seek to convert every single potential sale and feel a non-sale is a net loss tend to be the companies that I as a potential customer do not want to be a customer of. They tend to have shite customer support anyways.

At the end of the day, the "contact us" pricing clearly is not something that ends companies, otherwise nobody would use it.

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Post by sturadnidge »

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.

If I ever create a trendy SaaS company (or an untrendy one for that matter), I'm definitely cribbing the 'pay more if you have accountants on staff' criteria... love it!

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Post by bluGill »

dylan604 wrote: post #49
bluGill wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 servic…

That depends - I've seen contact us pricing on things that are cheap at walmart. They are losing money on every sale because the time for someone on the phone is more than gross profit (not net)

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Post by kelnos »

dylan604 wrote: post #49
bluGill wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 servic…

I agree with you entirely on the possibility of being able to save money by calling and negotiating, but if I'm evaluating two options, and one shows me pricing and lets me sign up without talking to anyone, and the other will require a phone call, I will most likely not be calling and giving that company any money.

This is, of course, one of the many reasons why I don't run a large, VC-scale business. I don't have the patience or desire to play these sorts of games.

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