Extention pricing

[witer30]

I'm new here, but I want to point out one thing. After my brief testing, EspoCRM is great, and among the generally available open-source CRMs, it's very impressive. It lacks many features offered by paid CRMs. However, the prices of the functionality-enhancing packages are exorbitant. For five users (and Espo is positioned as a CRM for small businesses), the price of the extensions necessary for work is around 1000 euros, so it works out to around 20 euros per user per month. There are paid CRMs available on the market that are ultimately cheaper.

I don't know how the developers came up with their business model, but it doesn't work for small businesses that want to use extensions.

Best regards,
K.

[yuri]

Hi,

Thanks for the feedback.

Whether the model does work or not it's not that simple question.

If we count not 5 users but 10, and not 1000 EUR but 600 EUR (which is quite a typical check), the calculation will be quite different.

[jamie]

you can always do your own hosting, then its just the cost of cloud hosting that you can get for about 6 usd per month

Though IMO think they focus too much on revenue from hosted options, as the real power of ESPO is when you self-host, though there are a few deployment issues with doing it properly, we'd be happy to pay something reasonable for some kind of deployment package

[yuri]

The topic is about the self-hosed option, which is clear from its content.

[yuri]

Conversely, there are similar products which succeed with far fewer features at a much higher price point. And their business model works. While dropping prices can just drag revenue down, making the project unsustainable.