even just the ability to easy click and login, and keep them in there - so I can easily reactivate if needed. Some clients come to me only a few times per year and each time they do I manually add them to WPUmbrella to test and monitor while I am doing the work, but then need to remove them after as they are not on a plan, having them in there but idle would be ideal

This feature would be a way for developers and WP Umbrella to open opportunity to add more paying websites, it's a WIN WIN.

The key here is having having the ability to notify non care plan / subscription clients that their website is slowly becoming out of date and updates are available pushing them to subscribe to a plan which in turn means another paying site on WP Umbrella. Competitors like MainWP already have this functionality.

Rather than telling them how many plugins we have updated, we tell them how many need updating.

It would also help us to 'manage / view' all of our websites in one place rather than between WP Umbrella and a competitor. If it was free or even a minimal $0.50 per "inactive" sites we could have extremely basic features like the email reporting, and telling us in the dashboard how many updates their are.

It's a must have feature!

Same here, I still have some clients on managewp because of this. A monthly backup would be enough, or even just a status report about needed updates.

Same here. I am thinking of bringing all my paying care plan clients over to WP Umbrella, but I would still need to maintain my MainWP installation for the ~10 other sites that I still string along for which I am not getting paid (personal projects, friends’ sites etc.). While the WP Umbrella price tag is quite low, a free tier with limited functionality would make it much easier for me to have everything under one roof.

I agree. For me it would be enough if the free tier would include just one-click login. That would make accessing my clients websites so much easier.

Aurelio Volle - has there been any more thoughts on this? I was just organising my hosting & care plan clients and I think if WPU wants to be an all round management tool (as your recent LinkedIn post seemed to allude to) being able to have sites hooked up but with no backups and no updates etc set up would be a great addition. Still seeing data (uptime etc) and sending reports would be a bonus - and for users once they're in, it'd be an easier upsell for them to then use backups etc. Even if it was a smaller fee per month (though free would be ideal!)

I think as well if you're looking to integrate more with hosting providers (like Rocket.net!) then seeing everything in once place makes even more sense.

A free plan with very basic feature set would be great. Such as auto-login and possibly tracking # of plugin updates, risks and possibily php errors. This could then be used to generate a report ad-hoc to use as an upsell to care plan for that client.

This would be superb. I currently manage my non payers in ManageWP. I really don't want my clients across two services.

Same for us, we are design agency and we also have lots of websites where we don't do any updated but would be nice to just add them to platform in special free section just so we have all websites under one roof, for easy acces. We can always activate payid plan if client decide to take our maintenance services.

maybe the free version could just send a report telling the customer about problems that have been found, vulnerabilities, misisng updates, reminding them that they do not have backups etc.

that was the 1 benefit of managewp, the free plan