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WHMCS Pricing Changes

nathanlopeznathanlopez Member
edited October 2016 in General

WHMCS made some pretty big changes to their license pricing today, including the removal of owned licenses completely (mentioned in the FAQ).

Blog Post: http://blog.whmcs.com/?t=119034

If you manage under 250 active clients in your WHMCS installation, nothing is changing.

Here's how the WHMCS pricing model will look going forward:

Up to 250 Clients $15.95/mo

Up to 250 Clients $18.95/mo

Up to 1000 Clients $24.95/mo

Over 1000 Clients $39.95/mo

Time to move away from WHMCS? Curious to know what others are thinking about this.

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  • Up to 250 Clients $15.95/mo
    Up to 250 Clients $18.95/mo
    

    nice

  • racksxracksx Member
    edited October 2016

    The new pricing will take effect for new subscriptions from today, but for existing subscriptions, nothing is changing today - we are giving existing customers a 6 month grace period for their existing subscriptions: new pricing will not take effect before April 2017.


    Nothing to worry just yet.

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  • racksx said: The new pricing will take effect for new subscriptions from today, but for existing subscriptions, nothing is changing today - we are giving existing customers a 6 month grace period for their existing subscriptions: new pricing will not take effect before April 2017.

    Nothing to worry just yet.

    Oops, forgot to include that important part. Good point though, plenty of time.

  • WHTWHT Member

    They can do what they want to do. Monopol is called.

  • LeeLee Veteran

    Cool.

    All hosts that complain on LET have > 250 clients, all those that do not complain on LET are near dead pooled.

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  • AnthonySmithAnthonySmith Member, Patron Provider
    edited October 2016

    jokers, its slowly getting worse as a product, the customer support and service is getting more like a scripted call center every day, I wonder what the justification is?

    someone just develop a plugin that add's a category as 'current' instead of active, job done.

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  • Bullshit.

  • @AnthonySmith said: I wonder what the justification is?

    Maybe it's because their software hasn't been exploited in a while?

  • @Ishaq said:
    Maybe it's because their software hasn't been exploited in a while?

    Hmm... Interesting thought :D

  • Host4GeeksHost4Geeks Member, Host Rep

    The good side of this is that people will start seeing ClientExec and Blesta as a worthy alternative.

  • Time to grab an owned license?

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  • To be fair $40 isn't in reality that much if you're managing over 1000 clients, stop being so tight and pay the price!

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  • @doughmanes said: Time to grab an owned license?

    ServerObsessed said: including the removal of owned licenses completely (mentioned in the FAQ).

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  • LeeLee Veteran

    A tiered system, to be honest its reasonable pricing. If you don't like it use another like Blesta, I dare ya!

  • Coffee hasn't cooled down enough to chug

  • VirMachVirMach Member, Patron Provider

    I wonder where that leaves people with owned licenses. Will they charge more for updates or will they phase out updates for owned licenses altogether?

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  • jhjh Member

    Still very reasonable

  • The new pricing is not that bad or unreasonable. What is worrying is that the WHMCS software will be phoning "home" and submitting information about the current customers (hopefully, just the count). But who knows what information would be submitted, with what granularity and how often? I see a potential privacy problem (or rather a disclosure of trade secrets problem) here.

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  • So there's no more lifetime licenses.. LOL.. i will better translate blesta or hostbill, and thats it.

  • For me it's an act of greed, and by this act WHMCS is going to lose many potential clients, Blesta on the other side is now in advantage because this will cause a sudden increase in the purchases of Blesta licenses.
    They removed owned licenses, Now that's what i call gambling.Moreover they are all and all so i think that this price would also change and go high, not now maybe in 2k18 or 19 but eventually their greed will make this happen.
    thank you.

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  • It's a normal business move. Those having 250+ customer's just can't afford to switch to a different platform. Those having more than 1000 ... well you get what I mean.
    After all, they didn't just reinvent the wheel because other software vendors messed up with license pricing long before WHMCS.
    Imho this progressive pricing policy is morally fair and I'd wish other vendors would have adopted it long before too.

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  • WHTWHT Member

    Blesta and clientexec will be always like directadmin and vestacp for cpanel.

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  • Awmusic12635Awmusic12635 Member, Host Rep

    Looks like they removed the branding on the higher licenses

  • So, what happens with owned license holders?

  • LeeLee Veteran

    Vegita said: For me it's an act of greed, and by this act WHMCS is going to lose many potential clients, Blesta on the other side is now in advantage because this will cause a sudden increase in the purchases of Blesta licenses.

    Not going to happen, even the last WHMCS hack did not make people jump ship, this certainly won't cause it.

  • @VirMach said:
    @tragic said:

    existing customers a 6 month grace period for their existing subscriptions: new pricing will not take effect before April 2017.

  • @Lee said:

    Vegita said: For me it's an act of greed, and by this act WHMCS is going to lose many potential clients, Blesta on the other side is now in advantage because this will cause a sudden increase in the purchases of Blesta licenses.

    Not going to happen, even the last WHMCS hack did not make people jump ship, this certainly won't cause it.

    This will surely cause some damage to WHMCS, Not so much damage although.

  • @racksx said:

    @VirMach said:
    @tragic said:

    existing customers a 6 month grace period for their existing subscriptions: new pricing will not take effect before April 2017.

    I read that as only for monthly license holders. Shame :(

  • @tragic said:

    @racksx said:

    @VirMach said:
    @tragic said:

    it is clear to me existing customers

  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    rds100 said: The new pricing is not that bad or unreasonable.

    It's unreasonable because it's what they want instead of what customers want.

    Did any customer say "I want you to eliminate the owned license option"?

    rds100 said: What is worrying is that the WHMCS software will be phoning "home" and submitting information about the current customers (hopefully, just the count).

    Look at the bright side: someone will hack it (I mean, it's WHMCS, so it's probably a plain-text POST) and you'll be able to buy the 1-client tier forever.

    rds100 said: But who knows what information would be submitted, with what granularity and how often?

    I'm sure this will never be exploited.

    I think the main reason there isn't a FOSS WHMCS alternative is that coding billing software SUCKS. It's such an interesting problem space...because there are no problems, it's just boring forms.

    Still, replacing WHMCS is tempting.

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