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[WildStallions]

Because schools all have such different budgets, depending on size and PP etc., I'm struggling a bit with pricing, and wondered if any of you could help.

If you were buying an SEN intervention to help with core skills, would you prefer it to be priced; as a one off price, or an annual license, or X licenses, or headcount price?

e.g. would you prefer to pay (if you liked the program!)

1. £700 for a site license (which doesn't expire)
2. £250 for an annual site license
3. £150 for 10 licenses
4. £1 per pupil per year (but that's for every pupil in the school, not just the pupils who use it.)

Program is suitable for most children who are behind in core skills.

Because of the way schools are funded, I don't think there is a fair way to price things. The schools with the most money are the schools with lots of PP pupils, but I'm not sure that I can price based on headcount & PP count....

Most schools prefer to have a menu of choices. If buying a site licence most companies do (for example) 1 year for £100 or 3 years for £250 type deals.

We buy using a multitude of different licenses. Depends what we are buying. Some it's a one of payment for a license. Some it's for X amount of licenses.
Some it's a yearly thing because at the time of purchase nothing else compared. With buying a yearly license we aren't tied in for when a competitor makes something similar.

We also like free trials. Think the worse one was 24 hour license. Which was daft. Devs claim program does X,y and z yet when we use them they cannot be used how we need them so trials really are important.