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Ideas for changes in our new site to help support the foundation regarding fees

We’re not charging for the plugin of course, but there are certain sections on our site that makes sense to add certain fees for. Here are a few sections I was thinking about:

  • Find a Developer (developer directory) – Charging a one-time fee of $xx to be listed on this page (waived if you’ve previously donated more than the one-time fee)
  • Jobs Directory – Charging a one-time fee of $x to list your job in the new public Jobs directory

That’s all I’ve got so far, does anyone have any other ideas on where it might make sense to charge a fee for? The fees here would basically be like donations designed to help support the Pods Foundation for continued development of the Pods plugin and help fund support efforts.

6 thoughts on “Ideas for changes in our new site to help support the foundation regarding fees”

  1. I’ve always been a fan of paid (priority or otherwise) support. The new site will lend itself to being much more helpful, but people are people and often times questions easily answered in the docs will be asked. Some sort of premium support (e.g. rapid response time) would be nice, but very tough to plan. Something even harder to plan would be a Pods specific http://www.wpquestions.com/ — a neat idea in and of itself. Just talking out loud.

    • I’m not sure if premium support makes the most sense at this point. Perhaps once 2.0 is out and we get too much inflow of support requests we’ll be in a better place for that to work. We’ll see how things go, but premium support could work, we just have to make sure that it can support both the premium support itself as well as put back time into the free support we give.

      • I would say that once 2.0 is out you definitely want to have a “premium” support option. Enterprise Level is a good buzzy way to phrase it. In the end it just needs to be quick answers and willing to add features if needed. All at a cost of course.

          • Right, we will always have free support in the forum, it’s just as it’s been – community participation for help and then we come in for the bigger issues or bugs when we’re not coding. Enterprise Level support would be for quick response times and to help support the Pods Foundation.

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