New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Help me price my SaaS app
Ask HN: Help me price my SaaS app
3 by throwAway2021_1 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
I've finally finished the MVP for my first SaaS app, but I'm having a hard time figuring out the pricing plans. It's not something new or revolutionary, but marketed properly will gain traction. Here's a description of the app: - register and account and allow your clients to book services with your business - businesses can opt-in to send clients SMS notifications on several events (confirmation, reminders, reservation changes) - as a business you get a booking page for your services - domain.com/my-business - you can integrate it with your website: iframe, redirect or js widget - businesses can have multiple staff (staff = people, gym rooms...etc) - clients can book any imaginable service (free, fixed price, variable, group bookings...etc) Main selling point(s): - there's a new law locally which kinda forces businesses to digitalize as much as possible - there are a few solutions, but they all lack SMS notifications How do I price it now? -- V1 I went to meet a few clients (6 actually) and they all said it's too cheap (of course they signed the contract) Currently, I charge a fixed fee per staff (paid at the end of the month) + fee per SMS sent (prepaid, load the account with SMS credits). So, if a business (hair salon) has 3 employees, which have an average of 100 bookings/mo, the business would pay 3 x staff fee. -- V2 Another option would be to price it per reservation and include the sms notifications in it, but 1 client out of 6 doesn't want all the sms notifications, he wants only 1. So if the business will have 200 bookings in a month, it would receive the bill at the end of the month. But what do I do with the cancelled bookings and what if the client doesn't pay the bill? I still pay for the sent SMS notifications :( -- V3 Please help! PS. this is a throwaway account because my work colleagues know my real one and I want to keep this business private. PPS. sorry for the long post and thank you for reading it
3 by throwAway2021_1 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
I've finally finished the MVP for my first SaaS app, but I'm having a hard time figuring out the pricing plans. It's not something new or revolutionary, but marketed properly will gain traction. Here's a description of the app: - register and account and allow your clients to book services with your business - businesses can opt-in to send clients SMS notifications on several events (confirmation, reminders, reservation changes) - as a business you get a booking page for your services - domain.com/my-business - you can integrate it with your website: iframe, redirect or js widget - businesses can have multiple staff (staff = people, gym rooms...etc) - clients can book any imaginable service (free, fixed price, variable, group bookings...etc) Main selling point(s): - there's a new law locally which kinda forces businesses to digitalize as much as possible - there are a few solutions, but they all lack SMS notifications How do I price it now? -- V1 I went to meet a few clients (6 actually) and they all said it's too cheap (of course they signed the contract) Currently, I charge a fixed fee per staff (paid at the end of the month) + fee per SMS sent (prepaid, load the account with SMS credits). So, if a business (hair salon) has 3 employees, which have an average of 100 bookings/mo, the business would pay 3 x staff fee. -- V2 Another option would be to price it per reservation and include the sms notifications in it, but 1 client out of 6 doesn't want all the sms notifications, he wants only 1. So if the business will have 200 bookings in a month, it would receive the bill at the end of the month. But what do I do with the cancelled bookings and what if the client doesn't pay the bill? I still pay for the sent SMS notifications :( -- V3 Please help! PS. this is a throwaway account because my work colleagues know my real one and I want to keep this business private. PPS. sorry for the long post and thank you for reading it
