devdocs/pricing.md

@@ -240,6 +240,13 @@ HVAC 150
 
 #### SUBSCRIPTION / SAAS
 
+##### Must be tied to active users
+
+That means all users who login including customers
+
+Customers would be low usage though you can imagine so they could be much cheaper or let's say you get xx customer logins and $xx for a block of a big number of additional
+Like 100 customer logins included, 20 bucks a month for additional blocks of 100 more
+
 So it's clear looking over things that there's a cost for a droplet and adding x more users doesn't really add to that for us so if a $5 droplet works for a single user up to let's say at least 10 users, just speculation, we make way more money off the 10 user. The price for a single user must be increased to accomodate that or...we host more than one site on a single droplet to offset the cost, but charge enough to move them up to a higher level without needing to increase the charges to compensate.
 
 so pricing should be the highest normal droplet we can use
@@ -253,11 +260,13 @@ So let's imagine a different scenario, let's say there are .75 users for every s
 
 WAYS TO FIGURE
 
+Assumption, average server cost will be 20/month per customer (hopefully more like 7 but in some cases 21 or worst case 68)
+
 WHAT IF we just charge double the perpetual maint rate?
 
 Maybe double the perpetual maint price so 16.66 rounded up to 17 per month per user?
 
-WHAT IF we just charge $35/mo (yearly 12.5% discount and the assumed price everyone would pay) $40/mo (monthly) about triple the maint price
+**WHAT IF triple maint** we just charge $35/mo (yearly 12.5% discount and the assumed price everyone would pay) $40/mo (monthly) about triple the maint price
 
 so for one user our profit if they paid yearly would be assuming a 7 dollar server 35-7=336 dollars per year, maybe not worth it so minimum 2??
 two user 70/mo-7=63\*12=756/year, that should be less than 1 hour of my time average per month to be worthwhile, like seconds at most
@@ -266,8 +275,17 @@ two user 70/mo-7=63\*12=756/year, that should be less than 1 hour of my time ave
 
 10 user would be 350/mo-7\*12=4116/year
 
-So going by the wild assed assumption that our current subscriber levels all went to SAAS the profit could be:
-1 user->2user so assume we keep only half of them, there are 30 singles so 15*70=1050-15*7\*12=
+**WHAT If quadruple maint (TOO HIGH)?** I have to do a lot of coding to keep retaining so it needs to be worth our while so 4 times the maint rate? (66.66, round to 65) 75/mo
+1 user 65-7=58\*12=696/year
+5 user would be =3480, ulp! that seems high, good for us though!
+10 user $6960
+
+##### UNKNOWNS TO FIGURE OUT
+
+Domain work (pricing and practicalities)
+Email (pricing and practicalities, like do we do this under our domain or)
+Storage practicalities (pricing just a factor)
+Server sizing
 
 ###### Server costs
 
@@ -291,11 +309,14 @@ Maybe the way to look at this is a basic price with options that directly corres
 ##### Add-ons upgrades
 
 -   STORAGE: So we assume a cheap ass droplet and offer add-on's like more storage attachment space for XX / mo which is really just the digitalocean pricing plus a premium overhead for contingencies if they want it
+-   ATTACHMENTS: we need an add-on for larger attachers, i.e. normal one is considered lite on attachments, no more than 10gb total or somethign as a rule of thumb, if they have greater needs then it's an add-on priced as per digitalocean with wiggle room on top and profit
+    also needs to be their backup volume too, i.e. all file storage except db
 -   RAM / CPU: maybe we offer basic server but they can upgrade to levels for additional per month
 -   BACKUP: self is free vs we do is whatever digitalocean charges plus a premium
 -   Email, if they don't bring their own account we provide at a cost / sendgrid or whatever (I suspect people expect this to be included if turnkey from a phone or something)
 -   Anything we get billed extra for, as it stands we don't care how powerful they need, ayanova supports it, but we don't pay for it, they do.
 -   So, maybe the way to go is base everything off a tiny or next to tiny server and anything else they can pay for as an upgrade.
+-   MIGRATION, we migrate from v7 for them for a flat fee, it's potentially hours of work 200 dollars?, or they can do it themselves
 
 ### Comparatives