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It would seem that pay-per-use would be a better model for products used infrequently... for example, tax filing software.
by jcadam 8y ago
It would seem that pay-per-use would be a better model for products used infrequently... for example, tax filing software.
- dspillett 8y agoEach use would have to be quite expensive for that to be practical for most services, especially for things like tax filing software where most people will want to use it a couple of times at a specific time each year. While that expense might well be significantly less than paying for an annual subscription (often the minimum) it would be hard to market as you would have to combat the fact that it would feel expensive to those looking with the view to maybe buying (humans are not rational creatures, despite what we like to believe, and often fail to correctly compute the relative worth of things).
- alias_neo 8y agoI can see this working, for example, my use case for CC (see my original comment), if they'd charged me ~£5 for 24 hours use or something, I'd have been quite happy with that. If I'd used it for a whole week, it would have cost me £35 instead of me using it once and it costing me ~£200 (albeit, only really ~£100, if their dodgy renewal practices hadn't got me tied in for another year).