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by AjithAntony 3841 days ago
I guess I'll check it out. Not having expense tracking in the demo account is a bummer. That's the kind of thing that a buyer would care about. Actually, without expense tracking, its hard to imagine what the product does. Contacts/Calendar? google apps. Document storage? Dropbox/google drive. CRM? SugarCRM(This was state of the art 10 yrs ago, I'm not hip to what people use today) Bookkeeping? Quickbooks (again it was state of art at the time, but maybe today there are better ones)

I understand that $10 is a pretty cheap to test out the features, but whenever I need to put real payments into something, it changes from "sign up right away and kick the tires" to "put it on the list of tools to eval becuase now I need to schedule time to review this"

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Perfectly acceptable - and great advise. You're actually making me think I should open up more to the free users so I can get more feedback.
15min review signed up to the free plan

Even if I only had one property, the free plan would be useless. If all I can do is record my tenant's contact details, and the name of my property, then I could have a better experience with a post-it note. No tasks and no expenses, and no payment records. Why would ever visit this site again?

The lease feature. I actually expected this would be some kind of lease template feature. Why would I bother uploading my externally prepared lease here? I need to keep dozens of documents for my tenants. Rental applications, credit reports, ID, pay stubs. If all this lease does is record the amount and dates, then I'll prefer the post-it.

Security. No way any serious user would give money to a site that is not using SSL. I hear certs are free now with LetsEncrypt. No excuse for plaintext authentication.

Whoa.. leaking other users' data? Does not inspire confidence

http://i.imgur.com/at2JKyq.png

And exception when exceeding the free account limits?

http://i.imgur.com/Isbf4qR.png

Pushing fix for exception message now! (I should be paying you for exceeding what my user testing didn't uncover!)
Fixed data leak! Looking into exception!
Yeah, I didn't think Stripe even worked without your site being SSL. Please just make the whole site SSL.
The payment portion is under SSL, Stripe won't work without it from my understanding either (let's hope not anyways!). Fixing ASAP.
FYI, in the dashboard, I clicked Rent Payments (which is not under SSL), then Subscribe which opens Stripe Checkout.
SSL being installed right now - for some reason thought Heroku provided that, but I misread!
SSL is being propagated out! Thanks for pointing that out!
You could also do a three month free trial or something of that effect. That would let people get a feel for the full offerings and if they think it's worth it then they'll likely end up being customers for a long time.