210 sats \ 4 replies \ @BlokchainB 28 Aug 2023 \ on: Daily discussion thread
“We have introduced our platform pricing. Zaprite will offer a monthly plan for USD$25, or an annual plan for USD$240—which is a 20% discount over monthly payments.”
$25 a month to accept Bitcoin payments? I appreciate the team working on this but bitcoin is supposed to make things better and cheaper right? Business margins are already tight hopefully they can bring this price point down or charge per transaction.
Bitcoin has made things better and cheaper. We're not charging $25 p/month just to accept bitcoin payments. You can do that for 'free' with BTCPayServer or a host of other tools. We're charging for access to our platform, and the suite of tools we've built to make accepting bitcoin payments easier as a business owner.
It's hard to get pricing that works for everyone, but we have to start somewhere. And we will take onboard feedback like yours and adapt and add more tiers as we grow.
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$25 is 1% of $2500, so if anyone is billing more than $2500/mo this is a pretty good deal.
I think ideally they'd default to taking 1% (or even more) to attract plebs but when you begin to cross $2500 of invoicing for the month, recommend the $25/month option.
The other thing to consider is that it's not possible to split payments noncustodially in a single QR.
I'd guess they'll add more tiers eventually.
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Yes, splitting on-chain payments in a single QR is not possible. Besides, we think the SaaS model is a more value-for-value approach.
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Yeah this makes sense. But I don’t think the 1% per transaction is offered yet.
With $2500 in sales who is the target market for this SasS? Hardcore BTC businesses getting $2500 in BTC revenues probably won’t use this.
And current businesses who don’t really care to accept BTC will probably just use open node. This is exactly what niftynei did to charge for her base58 course. Even she didn’t bother with BTC pay server
To charge $25 a month seems very expensive to accept Bitcoin payments easily.
I think zaprite should think about what made square so successful with allowing small business to accept credit cards on the street very easy. If square had this monthly flat fee for their services they would not be as successful as they are today.
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