3. What are your current pricing structures?
We made a dramatic switch in our pricing policies last Summer, when we released PhpED 4.6. We no longer asking our customers to pay for each upgrade - even though we firmly beleive that we provided enough value in each version that made it worth it.
As with everything that NuSphere does, we have a philosophy behind the decision. We had a talk among ourselves and somebody (probably the sales guyI think) made a very interesting statement. He said: Very often our customers are paying their own money for the product - quite often these developers are freelance or represent very small organizations. Imagine paying your OWN money for the IDE. We better make it worth it - and we are pretty sure we did.
- We have our flagmanship product PhpED Professional, which comes with 1 year of free upgardes and tech support
- We also offer PhpED Advantage - same product, but with 3 years of support and upgrades
- Our lighter version is PhpED standard, which is targeted for students and PHP beginners, as well as for everybody who doesn't use most of PhpED IDE features but still needs a great editor and great debugger
- we have "value packs" - buy 3 get one free deal with Team 4
- we offer products in both download only and physical CDs forms. (CDs cost more)
- we have various discounts for government, non-profits, educational and full-time students
You can check out our prices and compare versions:
http://www.nusphere.com/products/phped_verscomp.htm
And please don't hesitate to submit your questions through contact us form here:
http://shop.nusphere.com/contact_us/index.php