Owning software, argued with numbers.
What per-seat licences and booking commissions actually cost, what owning the code means in practice, and where each of those arguments breaks down.
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BuyingTemplate, fitted or custom: which one you actually need.
Three ways to buy the same source code. What separates them is how much shaping happens before it reaches you, and how to tell which one fits.
OwnershipWhere self-hosting costs you, and where it does not.
Owning the code moves some costs onto you. Here is an honest account of which ones, what they come to, and when renting really is the better answer.
GuideMoving off a subscription without losing your history.
Export, mapping, parallel running and cutover: how a migration away from per-seat software actually runs, and which parts go wrong most often.
GuideWhat to check before you buy software you mean to own.
Seven questions that separate owning software from having a long licence to it, and the answers you should expect to get in writing before you pay.
On-demandWhat a booking commission actually costs a salon in a year.
A marketplace takes 15 to 30 percent of each booking it sends. Here is what that comes to over a year, and what the same diary costs to own outright.
OwnershipWhat per-seat pricing actually costs a 40-person firm.
Three years of a mid-tier CRM for forty people comes to $93,600. The same system, owned, comes to $6,720. Here is the arithmetic, and where it fails.
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