How the Price Is Actually Constructed
Per-seat pricing is the headline. What it excludes, what grows, and how to build a comparable figure across vendors who price differently.
Analysis
Step 07
Commercial terms
Two vendors quoting the same per-seat figure can differ threefold over a term. And the lock-in is not in the data, which exports, but in everything built around it.
5 notes
Getting Your Data Out
The export you will need at termination should be specified before signing and tested while the relationship is good.
Procedure
Where the Lock-In Actually Is
Not the data, which is exportable. The cost of leaving lives in configuration, integrations and habit, and it compounds quietly.
Analysis
Building Your Own
Timesheet software looks simple enough to build. What the estimate misses, and the narrow cases where building is defensible.
Analysis
Terms Worth Having in Writing
The clauses that are easy to obtain before signing and impossible afterwards, in a category where the data carries legal obligations.
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