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by ryanx435 4651 days ago
This is an interesting market that you are targeting, but I'm curious what your revenue looks like. It looks like you are banking on people upgrading to a premium account to make money, but to me it seems like you are giving away fully functional websites for free. You are giving so much away that there really isn't an incentive to upgrade.

> There is no setup fee or minimum term (even for our free plan).

>Can I stay on the free plan forever? Definitely. If you operate a small business or are simply growing, we want to support you. Our premium features are aligned to those of a larger restaurant, so once you’re more established you’ll have the ability to upgrade, but it’s all up to you!

and you don't put ads on the restaurant's site either, so there is no revenue coming in to you on that end. Maybe I missed something when I was digging around?

2 comments

Hi Ryan, so there are number of restrictions on the free website, but the main one they end up "converting" on is the "powered by happytables" logo at the bottom of each page (in other words, removing the branding).
I don't believe you are. It's unfortunate because there needs to be more innovation/competition in the space.