LightCMS announces new packages, lower pricing

For over a year, we've been soliciting and evaluating your feedback about the pricing packages on LightCMS. Today, we're announcing some major improvements in response to the feedback we've received.

Behold, the new packages

Here's a quick look at the new package layout. We'll dive further into the changes below.

Bridging the gap

We're introducing the ADVANCED plan to smooth the gap between PLUS and PRO. Now, you have a whole new option for your websites giving you up to 50 pages, 3 GB of storage and 5 users. Storage and users on this new plan are at the levels previously seen on our PRO plan, yet at a cost of $20 less per month.

More value

We've added one extra user to our PLUS plan at no extra cost. All PLUS level websites can now make use of LightCMS's advanced permission features by allowing another person to login and edit or view specific content on the website. Our PRO plan is also gaining added value with a 100% increase in storage capacity (up to 6 GB) and a 100% increase in users (up to 10 users). All with no increase in monthly cost.

Reduced pricing for PREMIER websites

To top it all off, we're lowering the price of our PREMIER plan by nearly 25%, to $99/month. All PREMIER websites on LightCMS will have their cost reduced automatically when the changes go live. Plus, this makes the unlimited pages and users, and the huge 12 GB storage capacity of PREMIER even more accessible for you and your clients.

Everything's included

Remember that every plan, at every price, includes all of our features. Every plan gets the support of our 10 year old, debt-free, solid company. Every plan gets free, super-reliable hosting in our Tier IV datacenter that's ready to handle whatever traffic you can generate. Every plan gets hassle-free website management with a system that's designed with the clear goal of helping you build your business.

Going live on Thursday, May 7th, 2009

The new pricing will be implemented on Thursday, May 7th, 2009 at 9am Central Daylight Time (GMT -5). At that time, all existing LightCMS websites will be updated to reflect the changes and our new ADVANCED package will become available as well.

About the reseller pricing grid scripts

If you're using our reseller pricing grid scripts to display packages and pricing on your website, the ADVANCED plan will not be added to the output of your script. Instead, we'll be releasing a new script which will include the new package (and all of the other packages) in its output. So, it will be up to you to decide when and if you want to replace your script and add the new package to your offerings. However, your current script will be updated to reflect the changes in storage and users on the PLUS and PRO plans, since those changes will go into effect on Thursday.

Thanks to you!

We're so excited to bring you these pricing and package changes. We're happy to say that throughout our history, we've never raised our CMS pricing and now we're able to offer our product at an even better value. Thank you all for the feedback over the years. We take it all very seriously and look forward to our continued relationship as your CMS partner.

Posted on Tuesday, May 5, 2009 by Tim Wall filed under

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23 comments (Add your own)

1. Drew wrote:: Kudos!
May 5, 2009 @ 1:34 PM
2. Micah wrote:: Great to see the upgrade! Looking forward to what else you guys are doing!
May 5, 2009 @ 2:09 PM
3. kitchen wrote:: incredible work - thanks very much. some very happy people over here!
May 5, 2009 @ 2:18 PM
4. Ed Goble wrote:: awesome, thanks!
May 5, 2009 @ 3:59 PM
5. Ronnie Roper wrote:: Awesome! Thanks for listening to all of us.
May 5, 2009 @ 5:57 PM
6. Melody Hansen wrote:: "Have a told you lately that I love you" Very exciting news! Can wait to share the discount with my clients! All the changes to our billing will change to the new pricing automatically, right?
May 6, 2009 @ 7:38 AM
7. Melody Hansen wrote:: I meant on the premier plans, as far as the pricing on billing goes.
May 6, 2009 @ 7:41 AM
8. Scott wrote:: Beautiful!
May 6, 2009 @ 7:56 AM
9. Tim Wall wrote:: @Melody, correct. All of your LightCMS sites will be updated to reflect the new pricing/plans on Thursday morning. Thanks for the love!
May 6, 2009 @ 8:33 AM
10. Super Twitterer wrote:: I am glad to see the new package! I have many clients that could go for that right now.
May 6, 2009 @ 9:28 AM
11. Steven wrote:: Great to be affiliated with a company that can actually feel good about
lowering prices and improving service at the same time! Thank you.
May 6, 2009 @ 12:24 PM
12. Mel wrote:: Great news. I'm assuming our margins will stay the same on the $29/month plan?
May 6, 2009 @ 12:41 PM
13. Tim Wall wrote:: @Mel, as always, you set the pricing that you charge your clients. So, you control your margins. We're not raising our pricing on anything, so if you keep your price the same, your margins shouldn't change. Does that answer your question?
May 6, 2009 @ 12:45 PM
14. David wrote:: Well done EF! This really does bridge the gap. Your continued support of the small business web designer is appreciated.
May 6, 2009 @ 12:51 PM
15. Mel wrote:: Tim. I guess the pricing above is our cost. Not the "suggested retail" that appears on the pricing grid? If this is correct, what will your suggested retail be?
May 6, 2009 @ 1:45 PM
16. Tim Wall wrote:: @Mel, yes, that's correct. The pricing on the graphic above is your cost. Our suggested retail prices are:

Basic = $29
Plus = $49
Advanced = $69
Pro = $99
Premier = $149

Those prices will show up by default when you use the reseller pricing scripts. But, you can override them to display whatever price you choose to charge to your clients.

Hope this helps. Let me know if you have any other questions.
May 6, 2009 @ 1:54 PM
17. Hemal wrote:: I hope the pricing comes down on yearly packages?
May 7, 2009 @ 8:19 AM
18. Tim Wall wrote:: @Hemal, at this time, we don't have yearly packages. Everything is month-to-month with no contracts. Of course, you can offer yearly packages to your clients if you choose. Some of our resellers do this, but as far as what you pay to LightCMS, it is month to month.
May 7, 2009 @ 8:45 AM
19. Brad Bodine wrote:: The price script is not displaying custom changes. For instance the Small,Tall,Grande,Venti,SuperVenti names don't appear now and the price will not change as well. This began today. Please help. Thanks!
May 7, 2009 @ 1:18 PM
20. Tim Wall wrote:: @Brad, thanks for pointing this out. We've corrected it and your script should be working correctly now. I'm about to post a new blog entry on how to update to the new script which will include the ADVANCED plan.
May 7, 2009 @ 1:28 PM
21. Brad Bodine wrote:: Working perfectly! Thanks Tim!!
May 7, 2009 @ 1:33 PM
22. Loi wrote:: Great news, but I'm using sky... so what about lower pricing packages on SkyCMS ?
June 2, 2009 @ 11:15 PM
23. Tim Wall wrote:: @Loi, SkyCMS is one of our retail CMS products for our end user customers. It has a different pricing scheme than LightCMS, which is for designers to resell to their own clients. The information in this post refers only to LightCMS, though some of the information applies to both products. If you have questions about pricing on SkyCMS you can check out the SkyCMS website (discoversky.com) or talk to your Internet consultant to make sure you are on the best plan for your needs. If you don't have a consultant, feel free to contact us and we'll have someone get in touch with you right away.
June 3, 2009 @ 9:59 AM

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