Business Model Proposal
Contributors (1)
Published
June 20191
Charge by number of active admins, with additional charge for “Org” dashboard, and additional services that can be added to any plan
Free | Team | Organization | |
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Basic features | X | X | X |
Custom domain | X | X | |
Custom licenses | X | X | |
Communities | 1 | 1 | unlimited |
Organization dashboard | - | - | X |
SLA | - | - | X |
FREE | 0 admins: $100/yr up to 10 admins: $750/yr up to 25 admins: $1250/yr up to 50 admins: $2000/yr more than 50: contact us | 0 admins: $150/yr up to 10 admins: $1125/yr up to 25 admins: $1875/yr up to 50 admins: $3000/yr more than 50: contact us | |
Production | |||
Per article fee | Per community setup fee | ||
Bandwidth | |||
Cap and contract to recover costs over a certain usage | |||
Financial Services | |||
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Things that feel healthy to charge for:
SLA, more complete contract language
Things we don’t want to charge for:
Number of articles
Number of communities
Things we don’t want to offer:
Custom code
Free
Unlimited admins
Team - (Charging bands based on Community Admins)
Custom domain
Non-CC licenses
0 Admins: $100/year
up to 10 admins: $750/year (75 per admin)
up to 25 admins: $1250/year (50 per admin)
up to 50 admins: $2000/year (40 per admin)
over 50 admins: (contact us)
Organization - ($Y + Charging based on Community Admins)
Team Features
Org features
SLA
0 Admins: 1.5x * $100/year
up to 10 admins: 1.5x * $750/year
up to 25 admins: 1.5x * $1250/year
up to 50 admins: 1.5x * $2000/year
over 50 admins: (contact us)
Production Support - (Charging based on per-article + per-community)
Available at all tiers
Contact us (roughly $100 per article and per community)
Bandwidth
Some language in the terms that limit bandwidth and lets us charge for it 2over an amount
Independent
Contact us for discount
Active Admins
1-5: 1x = $10 + $500
5-25: 2x + $500
25 - 50: 2.5x
100+: Contact us
Free tier:
Early 2019
Free
‘I’m publishing on PubPub’
Professional
‘I’m a Publisher using PubPub’
Custom domain
Custom (non-PubPub) DOI
Custom licenses
Support response-time
Enterprise
Organization landing page
Multi-community permissioning
Multi-community analytics
Multi-community dashboard
Multi-community templates
Multi-community settings
Post-sales consulting
LDAP
SSO
SLA
Add ons (tax model)
Post-sales consulting
Custom domain?
Custom licenses
Support response time
Charges per use:
Pub analytics
Community analytics
Full private communities
Mailing list support/integration
Payment services
Computational papers/processing
Custom fonts
Integrations
DOI deposition
page viewcommunity membersnumber of pubsnumber of discussionsnumber of pagesnumber of communities
per viewper downloadper review
Free | Professional | Enterprise | Membership |
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Summary
PubPub offers three product tiers: free, premium, and full-service. Free and premium tiers are self-serve, software-as-a-service model, with proposed prices based on a scan of competitor prices for journal hosting and a rough estimate of the marginal cost of hosting a community based on the PubPub budget template.
Full-service is a software-plus-service model based on the Press’s existing journal business. In this model, Press provides expertise setting up on PubPub and ongoing community management, marketing, and other support. Proposed pricing is based on Gabe’s rough model, the Muse OPEN model, and competitor prices. But we would likely not expose the pricing publicly, and instead ask people to get in touch if they’re interested, which also allows Press to actively sell these packages as part of their contracts.
Pricing Table
Free | Professional for Organizations | Full Service |
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