I've been working with WordPress for 6 years (so consider me a grizzly old consumer), and launched my first premium plugin 6 months ago. I wrote a rather rambl

I've been working with WordPress for 6 years (so consider me a grizzly old consumer), and launched my first premium plugin 6 months ago. I wrote a rather rambling article on some of my observations a few months ago here: http://gelwp.com/articles/a-few-months-after-launching-a-wordpress-plugin/ http://gelwp.com/articles/a-few-months-after-launching-a-wor... I still believe the freemium business model, with the free version in the repo and the paid version on your own site, is the way to go. The marketing that comes from being in the repo is unbeatable. I initially went with Freemius, then looked at EDD. In the end I rolled my own, and I'm happy I did, but I'm a developer that likes re-inventing the wheel, and I wanted the experience. I would encourage most anyone else to buy into a system. The reason is the amount of code. I now have to maintain the site, the core plugin and the 5 add-ons. It's doable, but takes a lot of time away from everything else you need to do - sales, marketing, etc. For this reason I'd also encourage you to have a single, premium version of your plugin and avoid add-ons.