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I have a small biz site where I’m running about half dozen paid plugins, typically the lowest paid tier. And now they all need renewing.
Most of these are cheap the first year, expensive all following years. And their shopping carts don’t allow discount codes if your authenticated/logged in. What’s a small biz on a budget to do?
What’s a solution to this? Do you swap out between competitors every year? Or switch accounts between different email addresses? Or is there a standard way to inject a discount code into a shopping cart URL? Or just suck it up?
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>What’s a solution to this? Do you swap out between competitors every year? Or switch accounts between different email addresses? Or is there a standard way to inject a discount code into a shopping cart URL? Or just suck it up?
Run the business like a business, allocate an appropriate portion of your profit for future expenses.
>Or is there a standard way to inject a discount code into a shopping cart URL?
What?!
How would that work?
I usually go for the plugins with lifetime deals.
In your case switching emails is the best option, I think.
BTW, Can you please name the plugins which are not allowing you to inject the discount code?
I mean, I sympathize with the challenges of running a small business. I really do. So please don’t take this as me being an ass.
But keep in mind that WP plugin authors are also businesses (some large, but many small). In the same way that you design your prices to cover your costs and turn a profit, so do they. If you had a one-time sale and then someone found an exploit where they could purchase items at the sale price forever (and shared it on Reddit), I doubt you’d be stoked.
If your business isn’t profitable after covering costs to the point that you have to try and create workarounds to get discounts that you wouldn’t otherwise qualify for, then perhaps you need to look at your business model.