Why is there no option for monthly payments with an option to cancel, on a pro/studio license?
Upfront costs of +$300 is hard to stomach but 1 monthly installment payment of $25 is much more palatable for most people I imagine.
In comparison to SU, Adbe CC has many useful software programs that are industry standards. Their suite/CC pricing is actually reasonably priced for their market.
I’m all for Trimble developing sketchup, SU Make users had it too good anyways.
I’m sure most make users would be open to $25/month payment for SketchUp Pro.
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It would be nice to have the option of both, It depends on what the price point is and how much you save over the annual fee. It’s not going to be 25 realistically it would make no business sense, then everybody would just pay monthly and not have to commit.
Perhaps financially it doesn’t make as much sense. But you could end up with a bigger market share then you hike up the prices when there is no competition left
Totally agree! I am an Adobe CC user and I like the model and works for my business. SketchUp would have made $100s out of me and my colleagues by now if there was a monthly subscription. When 3D is not your primary source of income but a useful addition, monthly is much easier as you mentioned.
Same here, i’m not paying a year, but i would have taken the monthly plan more then a year ago, even at a reasonable 40$/month. The maths are clear, it’s SketchUp lost.
Instead i burn through time on FreeCad and sometime SketchUp Web Free.
Plus the web pro version is finally a solution for me and my collaborators as Linux users.
I can’t imagine how much they loose in hacking on Windows and Mac just because there is no monthly plan!
Bump this thread… I use Sketchup Pro sometimes 7 days a week for jobs, and when I’m out on site digging ditches, rendering walls, pointing, doing guttering etc I don’t use it at all. A monthly sub would be a very very handy option and I would pay some reasonably higher-in-proportion amount (than the yearly cost) so that I’m not having to scrounge together money from other household budgets. Money is tight for many of us, incase some folk on this forum forget - we’re all trying to work here.
is it a true monthly sub @ChrisDizon ? I can buy one month when I need / stop whenever I don’t need SU anymore ?
or is it still a yearly plan but with monthly payment ?
yeah, clicking on the link, I expected something around 40$ max, not 50.
the math makes me think this is a rate just for people that need SU a couple of month a year, since 7month is already the cost of a yearly sub.
it’s a bit like adobe, as soon as you take photoshop + 2 apps, you might as well take the whole suite - and many people do.
at least now there is a solution for interns and people who just need SU pro once a year for a specific project.
overall a positive thing. more choice is better than no choice
No, I don’t think it’s bad news either. In any case, at least there must be something wrong with their “calculator”…I find it terribly (unreasonably) expensive.
I’m sure they can explain it. (But I can also explain anything and its opposite. )
Seems steep to me too, but pricing strategy always comes down to seeing whether anyone thinks there is enough value to justify it. With software the idea of value is skewed by the availability of open-source freeware (yes, blender, I’m thinking of you).
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