Why does a $10 App cost you $10,000?
The flareAI Fast Answers Series for Shopify Plus & Shopify businesses. Let's say you are a business owner and you are considering a SaaS CRM app to manage your customer relationships. Let’s start with the obvious. The subscription fee for the app is $10 per month per user. You have 10 employees who will be using the app, so your monthly cost will be $100. Yearly cost so far, $1200 Next, you will need to train your employees on how to use the app. This training could run half-day for 10 employees at $80/hour/employee including cost of trainer and employee time. $80 x 4 x 10 = $3200 Are your palms sweating? The yearly total is now $4400 Integrations. You want your CRM app to talk to your Quickbooks, Slack, Google Drive, and Asana. Boom, drop another $250/month in ongoing integration services. $250 x 12 = $3000 Yes, get a glass of water. The yearly total is now $7400 Support. You will need support for the app but also support for the integrations. Another $150/month. $1...