We sign three-year contracts with Betty Blocks which are reevaluated at the end of each contract. The complexity of the application is what makes the price. I've had a bad pricing experience with Betty Blocks. For one application, I'm even thinking of leaving them. The pricing is quite high, but the pricing is also not transparent. I had an application, which to start cost me about 7,000 euros a year. But after the first period of three years, I received an email that my application has grown and if I would like to pay 70,000 euros a year. I got in contact with them, and we settled on 15,000 euros a year. That was reasonable and in line with previous pricing tables they had. In my opinion, Betty Blocks is trying to get as much out of its customers as it can. I am leaving them now with that application because I'm not waiting for the next contract term. I then may get a bill to pay 140,000 euros and then maybe I can settle about 50,000 euros. The pricing is not transparent. I would give Betty Blocks a one out of ten for pricing. Betty Blocks is going in the direction of servicing larger corporations, where 70,000 euros a year is not much compared to an employee cost. This is a whole other ballgame than what I play with my mid-market customers. From that perspective, Betty Blocks is losing me which is a pity, because it's a super product. The support is free, and it is certainly elite. I once needed data restored, not for the complete database, but for specific tables. The support person created an Excel document for me, which I could not have done myself because it was out of a backup. The support person did that for free with no hidden costs.
Managing Partner at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
Real User
2021-01-13T17:36:00Z
Jan 13, 2021
Licensing is on a yearly basis. There are several pricing structures at the moment. The pricing structure that we have been working with was based on a number of blocks. (A number of blocks, is a translation of what you use in the platform). It's a calculation based on how much you put on the platform, and not depending on the number of users or the volume of data, although that is now also possible, especially for the larger clients, where they can have a user or data, based pricing. Pricing could always be better. We are struggling sometimes a bit because if you look to a lot of the older shelf solutions, they provide a full solution where a platform or a toolbox is slightly different, but in most cases, it's just as expensive, and you still have to make your own applications.
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We sign three-year contracts with Betty Blocks which are reevaluated at the end of each contract. The complexity of the application is what makes the price. I've had a bad pricing experience with Betty Blocks. For one application, I'm even thinking of leaving them. The pricing is quite high, but the pricing is also not transparent. I had an application, which to start cost me about 7,000 euros a year. But after the first period of three years, I received an email that my application has grown and if I would like to pay 70,000 euros a year. I got in contact with them, and we settled on 15,000 euros a year. That was reasonable and in line with previous pricing tables they had. In my opinion, Betty Blocks is trying to get as much out of its customers as it can. I am leaving them now with that application because I'm not waiting for the next contract term. I then may get a bill to pay 140,000 euros and then maybe I can settle about 50,000 euros. The pricing is not transparent. I would give Betty Blocks a one out of ten for pricing. Betty Blocks is going in the direction of servicing larger corporations, where 70,000 euros a year is not much compared to an employee cost. This is a whole other ballgame than what I play with my mid-market customers. From that perspective, Betty Blocks is losing me which is a pity, because it's a super product. The support is free, and it is certainly elite. I once needed data restored, not for the complete database, but for specific tables. The support person created an Excel document for me, which I could not have done myself because it was out of a backup. The support person did that for free with no hidden costs.
Licensing is on a yearly basis. There are several pricing structures at the moment. The pricing structure that we have been working with was based on a number of blocks. (A number of blocks, is a translation of what you use in the platform). It's a calculation based on how much you put on the platform, and not depending on the number of users or the volume of data, although that is now also possible, especially for the larger clients, where they can have a user or data, based pricing. Pricing could always be better. We are struggling sometimes a bit because if you look to a lot of the older shelf solutions, they provide a full solution where a platform or a toolbox is slightly different, but in most cases, it's just as expensive, and you still have to make your own applications.