Hi all, Pricing for the Online Editor has come up a lot since the v2 announcement, so I wanted to share where we’ve landed. It’s one-time pricing with lifetime updates, no subscription. Two plans, both per domain: Free — included with Elements, unlimited domains. For personal sites and small proj…

It was always a strength of the whole Elements development process that users can give feedback even it was not always what you would like to hear :blush: I personally have no problems with paying a higher price and the product perfectly fits my needs. Others may see it different. In case of the CM…

Also, one other thing I noticed is the competitions sub-domain support is only for development. If the sub-domain is used as a production site, then it requires a separate license.

@Dan Maybe this is more a misunderstanding than anything else. From an agency’s point of view, the pricing model is naturally a bit more difficult this way. For example: As an agency, I create all my projects under a subdomain of my main website. But that means I would now need to buy a license…

@dan @ben Your fine. You’re doing a great job. You help many people here on the forum. Please relax. - and have a coffee :slight_smile: Best Wishes Mike

[image] Pegasus: that means I would now need to buy a license for every potential client, even before I know whether they will actually want the CMS surely you would need to know if the project/client wants the CMS before actually using the CMS? [image] Pegasus: if they then decide they …

OK, I wasn’t aware of the Activate and Deactivate option until now. I must have overlooked that. That option definitely makes things easier and more relaxed when switching a license between subdomains.

We’re working on a solution that should hopefully please everyone… stay tuned!

On my website, I have a domain and sub-domain for Staging i.e. pre-production. I would only be seriously using the CMS for real production use on the main domain. So swapping the CMS from the staging sub-domain to the main domain wouldn’t work as I would need it on the Staging domain for testing. M…

Sorry for the silly question, but I haven’t been following this topic much and would like to understand better… is the “CMS Online Editor” already available, at least the free one? Is the “CMS Online Editor” a series of components you have to purchase, or how does it work?

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