In addition to the initial implementation cost for your site (which includes creating the interface design), we charge a monthly fee to use populus. This fee is based on the scale of your populus implementation and covers the cost of hosting your site and providing basic maintenance and support. It also enables us to continue to improve populus and maintain the supporting infrastructure such as the knowledge case and the help tips.
The following table outlines how this fee is calculated. Please note that specialist industry applications are charged on different pricing models, please contact us for further information.
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| Component | Small | SME | Enterprise |
| Publishing (sections, articles, modules, galleries, ecards) | 50 pages | 200 pages | 20,000 pages |
| CRM (membership, support, access levels, forms) | 500 members | 5,000 members | 50,000 members |
| Connect (social media - discussion boards, personal homepage, chat, friends, IM) | 500 members | 5,000 members | 50,000 members |
| Communicate (newsletters and personalised email broadcasts) | 100 emails | 1,000 emails | 5,000 emails |
| Sell (product catalogue, cart & checkout, order processing) | 20 products | 100 products | 1,500 products |
| Administration | 1 account | 5 accounts | unlimited |
| Hosting (shared hosting solution, back ups) | 2 Gb HDD 10Gb bandwidth | 5 Gb HDD 30Gb bandwidth | 20 Gb HDD 250Gb bandwidth |
| No. of sites | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Version releases | on request | on request | included |
| Monthly fee | $150.00 | $350.00 | $850.00 |
| Additional emails | 4c/email | 3c/email | 2c/email |
Should I 'open source'?
Are 'open source' web publishing platforms really 'free'? We continually read web literature touting the benefits of 'open source' solutions because they are 'free'. However, in our experience 'open source' doesn't necessarily mean free.
