Free Tier for clients without care plans | Voters

Free Tier for clients without care plans

Akira Zabala

It would be awesome to have a free tier (with limited functionality) for clients without a care plans and be able to "upgrade" to a "full Umbrella experience". Currently I've migrated all my careplan clients to Umbrella but keep my non-recurrent paying customers in ManageWP, which is messy and prevents me to abandon that sinking ship for once.

April 30, 2024

Lassi

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.

Chris Key

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.

Chris Anderson

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.

Andy Topley

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

Davor Nikoli

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.

Russ Michaels

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

Margaret Jordan

I would like having a free tier with less features for development or staging sites. Otherwise, I would have to use another service for those sites. Like manageWP does.

Yasien Sarlie

We could send a report showing clients what they are not getting without a maitenance plan in place. Backups will cost WP Umbrella resources. We can include teasers that do not cost anyone money. Maybe WP and Woo updates only

Tom DeBello

I like this idea. Limit it to 1 backup a month and all the update features.

Chris Key

This would solve some of the other suggestions. Is nice to see them all together but then which features do you cut for it to be free?

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