[QLab] Pricing

[Mike Benonis]

Based on the feature set listed, I would offer a tiered plan along  
these lines:

$200 - K-12 Schools (excluding Magnet and Performing Arts schools)
$500 - University Drama Departments, Magnet/Performing Arts Schools,  
Community/Non-Profit Theaters
$1000 - Commercial Theaters

Upgrades should cost 50% of the licensing fee, and should be assessed  
on full version upgrades (2.0, 3.0...)

For version 1.0, you could offer like 20% off for a month or something.

BTW, one thing that you might consider is offering a version of QLab  
that lets you author shows for the pro version but not play them  
back.  This would allow theaters to let their designers take the show  
home with them to work on without having to pay an arm and a leg for  
each working copy.  Maybe this could be achieved by limiting the  
number of outputs or the length of cues, or by adding in white noise  
bursts every few seconds or so.  These copies could be offered for  
20% of the cost of the main license or something like that.

Best regards,

Mike Benonis
mike at benonis.net
(703) 577-3788

On Aug 16, 2006, at 7:26 PM, Christopher Ashworth wrote:

>
> On Aug 16, 2006, at 7:11 PM, Mike Benonis wrote:
>
>> Can you post the list of features reserved to QLab pro again (both
>> implemented and planned for 1.x)?  I'd like to look over them again
>> before chiming in on pricing.
>
> QLab Pro currently features:
>
> - Load Cue
> - Reset Cue
> - MIDI Voice Cue, which includes MIDI fades
> - MIDI Show Control Cue
> - the ability to control QLab Pro through external MIDI show control
> commands
> - 16 output channels per sound
>
> The 1.x series is likely to include:
>
> - Pause Cue
> - Video Cue
> - Quartz Composer Cue
> - Shell Script Cue
> - even more output channels per sound
> - ability to patch output channels per device
> - Display customization, including font size for cue lists, as well
> as a "dark" mode that uses light text on a dark background
> - other stuff not yet dreamed of in your philosophy, Horatio.
>
>
> It's quite possible that as I add some of the above features to QLab
> Pro, I'd bump the price up a bit.  This would allow me to offer a low
> price at first, as a sort of "introductory offer", and then bring the
> price a little more in line with the feature set as I add these other
> features and make QLab Pro ever more distinct from the free version.
> This would give early adopters a really good deal.
>
> And, as a little teaser, I'll just mention that *four* of the "future
> features" listed for 1.x above are almost complete already.  I'm not
> going to spoil the surprise and say which ones, though.  You can have
> fun guessing.  :)
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
>
>
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