Understanding why there is an offer of a free upgrade to Premium Gold plan

When you install this plugin it makes an offer of a free licence for the GOLD plan. I’m sure you want to know why.

Developing this plugin, and keeping up with changing technology of PayPal and also just technology changes ( WP versions, PHP 8 etc) requires a good amount of development work.

Version 6 of this plugin is still in development and will be for a good while longer.

This plugin has a good number of free users, but very very few of these users have upgraded to the premium version. Why? Because the plugin offers lots of free features anyway.

The only way to keep a free version is for the premium version to be attractive to more of you to actually part with cash ( when was the last time you actually donated to a free plugin?). To remain viable and attractive for some of you to pay for means ultimately moving some free functions to become paid functions.

I’m sure you understand this, after all you are taking money via PayPal, so you are some form of business in the broadest sense, and used to paying for services, after all you are paying away some 2.5% or more to PayPal every time you use it.

So that sounds like bad news. But not for you reading this now.

Because in preparation for the change you can obtain the GOLD premium version, which is exactly the same as FREE version as it stands today. This grandfathers your features, so you wont wake up one day and upgrade and find you no longer have a feature unless you pay.

So just to re-iterate GOLD = sames as Free today

But at a unspecified future date – Free will have less features than Silver or Gold

( You won’t find details of features on my website until the the development is complete and we are close to relaunch )