There’s two reasons behind the way we’ve structured our pricing:
Firstly you can very easily circumvent our checkout flow as we don’t lock you into using the entire system, we could therefore be supporting a large store and never receive a payment.
Secondly we see transaction fees as penalising you for selling well. It’s tough to push a product when gateways already charge for payments. A combined total of 5%+ for every order would be difficult for store owners to swallow.
We decided that offering a free tier and flat monthly fees for our paid users would be more acceptable. As a user you know exactly what you will be charged for each month.
Thanks for the feedback though, we’ll see what we can do to explain API requests and storage better.
Firstly you can very easily circumvent our checkout flow as we don’t lock you into using the entire system, we could therefore be supporting a large store and never receive a payment.
Secondly we see transaction fees as penalising you for selling well. It’s tough to push a product when gateways already charge for payments. A combined total of 5%+ for every order would be difficult for store owners to swallow.
We decided that offering a free tier and flat monthly fees for our paid users would be more acceptable. As a user you know exactly what you will be charged for each month.
Thanks for the feedback though, we’ll see what we can do to explain API requests and storage better.