devdocs/pricing.md

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 Worksheet for all business stuff related to pricing licensing activation models.
 
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+## Actual
+
+Sample email outlining pricing until get on web page: 
+
+Good morning Rich, I have just been given the new pricing.
+
+There is no web page to send you to yet, but I can just relay it below.  Note that I'm typing this out from notes, it's not in official form but it will give you the pricing.
+
+There are two options coming - "Perpetual" license where customer self installs on their own hardware and "Subscription" license where we host AyaNova for you as a subscription service.
+
+All prices in US dollars.
+
+AYANOVA PERPETUAL LICENSE
+=========================
+AyaNova self-installed on own hardware / network
+
+$135.00 per scheduled technician User
+$0.00 for any other Users that are not scheduled or booked on work orders or have their labor tracked etc (i.e. office staff, Inventory people, Sales, Accounting,  Customer User logins etc)
+
+Includes 30 days Maintenance plan (technical support and any updates released in that time period).
+
+Yearly Maintenance plans for technical support and updates to the latest AyaNova release can be purchased for discounted price of $100 yearly per scheduled technician with an active unexpired maintenance plan or for $135 yearly per service technician without an active maintenance plan in place.
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+Includes at no extra cost our QBI QuickBooks (Desktop edition) integration (Online edition and other accounting platform integrations coming soon).
+
+Backup data is compatible with Subscription version (below) if you want to switch and save the costs of supporting your own hardware, ISP and I.T. etc.
+
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+
+AYANOVA SUBSCRIPTION LICENSE
+===========================
+AyaNova hosted by us on our servers in your choice of data center
+(US West, US East, Toronto Canada, Amsterdam Netherlands, Frankfurt Germany, Singapore, Bangalore India)
+
+We maintain AyaNova for you, always the latest release version.
+
+(These prices are based on 12 month purchased at a time, if month to month 12% higher to account for extra payment processing costs)
+
+$50.00 per month per active User
+
+Any User account who is set to Active in AyaNova, not by scheduled technician as in the Perpetual license. 
+Customers can also be set to optionally login to AyaNova for the Customer self service features; 100 Customer Contact Users (set to active) are included and blocks of 100 can be added on for $10/mo
+
+Can use the provided subdomain name or bring your own domain for no extra charge.
+(e.g. instead of using atlas.myayanova.com can be anything.atlasegllc.com)
+
+Includes 25gb of storage for database and attachments which is a lot based on average AyaNova deployments for v7 more storage available as optional add-on.
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+Includes QuickBooks (Desktop edition) integration (Online edition and other accounting platform integrations coming soon) at no extra cost.
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+You have access to your own data to download backups any time that are compatible with Perpetual version if you want to switch (with purchase of a subscription license).
+
+More details on optional add-on's for Subscriptions to come as it's getting finalized but that's the main price.
+
+
+- John
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+www.ayanova.com
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+
 ## ACTIVATION
 
 The method by which a user starts using your product is called the activation model. i.e. evaluation, trialing etc
@@ -25,9 +90,9 @@ It needs to be as short as possible but still allow them to try it all out. In f
 
 For perpetual it takes much more time to install and set up to even get running and that's part of the testing process, however they can repeatedly request a trial license no problem but have to erase the data each time so I guess at the end of the day it's not necessary to have different length trial periods.
 
-I think a three day trial period is sufficient. It creates hella urgency, it is really enough time to kick the tires and try everything out for real, if they are super serious but uncommitted yet they can move to renting for a month and really get into it.
+I think a 5 day trial period is sufficient. It creates hella urgency, it is really enough time to kick the tires and try everything out for real, if they are super serious but uncommitted yet they can move to renting for a month and really get into it.
 
-"3 Day trial, if you need more time we suggest sign up for a month"
+"5 Day trial, if you need more time we suggest sign up for a month"
 
 ### Existing v7 users going SAAS
 
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 **US$100/tech/year maintenance**
 Only $8.33 per month (must mention in marketing)
-Price is valid within 45 days of a prior license purchase or a yearly maintenance expiry otherwise it's 135 to start again
+Price is valid within 15 days of a prior license purchase or a yearly maintenance expiry otherwise it's 135 to start again
 No volume discounts - same price any size company
 Gets you one year of support and updates to any release
 
@@ -277,6 +342,13 @@ 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
 
+**WHAT IF 50/user/mo** $50/mo per user based on yearly or 56.00/mo based on monthly
+
+
+5 user would be 250/mo*12=*3000/yr
+
+10 user would be 500/mo*12=5000/yr
+
 **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!
@@ -483,7 +555,7 @@ PRICING AND PLANS THIS IS OFFICIAL HERE REPLACES ANYTHING WRITTEN ANYWHERE ELSE
 -   PRICING, must figure that out sooner than later, spend some time and give it a think, read joyce's docs keep in mind new licensing scheme worked up with joyce
     Once I have an idea run it past Joyce for final confirmation then shareit codes and purchase pages etc for website
 
-45 days trial
+5 days trial
 Flat price per license regardless of how many no discounts for bulk price to be xx.xx
 Includes 90 days support and updates after which they're on their own. In this way they don't feel coerced into a subscription which must be a turn off for a lot of people
 Separately they can purchase a support and updates subscription within 90days they get a discount of the ongoing price, after 90 days it's full price

devdocs/todo.txt

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 # now
 
 
+SHAREIT pricing and subscription changes are all built into the system, I had no idea, also an api and bunch of other shit we've needed all along
+They have comprehensive help available here: https://account.mycommerce.com/Home/Wiki
+some things we will need to request be turned on to be able to do them like changing subscription quantities and upgrade paths for subscribers so they can just move to v8 sub
+without hassle
 
 RESEARCH: sendgrid / email system can we have a domain just for our notifications for those that don't use their own domain and use for all users (but NOT tied to AyaNova.com)
 https://linuxhandbook.com/set-up-discourse-digital-ocean/ has an example of discourse with Mailgun freen email ssytem and a domain
 
 TEST: cheapest storage for attachments possible, test out creating a new droplet with block storage to hold the attachment files to see if it's possible, how it's done and mapped etc
 
-
+todo: maintenance plan agreement?  SB something in the license docs I guess since it differs, also license text will need to be chagned as it is on assumption of built in maint before
+	Here is autodesks maintenance plan agreement page: https://www.autodesk.com/company/legal-notices-trademarks/autodesk-terms-and-conditions/eng_autodeskmaintenancesubscriptiontermsandconditions
 
 todo: metrics are fucked up for some reason
 	in fact I'd just like to reliably know how much disk space is in use etc, like the size of the db versus attachments in simple text
@@ -82,10 +87,11 @@ todo: each droplet for SAAS would need it's own ssh key and password to avoid eg
 	also would need to securely store the passwords somewhere really really fucking secure like offline in a special keypass only accessible from certain hardware maybe with a digital key or something I dont' know
 	Look into security keepass with utmostness and not shared online anywhere so sneakernet only
 	
-todo: Change 45 day trial to 3 day trial but offer that they can email if they are going perpetual and need a special requested more period of time.
+todo: Change 45 day trial to 5 day trial but offer that they can email if they are going perpetual and need a special requested more period of time.
 	If they need more time they can sign up for a month's use of the SAAS model
 	is this in rockfish??
-	also if I can override in the UI that would be great (I think I can but check)
+	also they can just request a new trial over and over if in eval mode if they erase the db each time
+	also if I can override a trial period for an eval in the UI that would be great (I think I can but check)
 
 todo: CLIENT UI license changes for subscribers around the LICENSE pages and route??