When MIDAS was first release back in 2005, we sold copies of our software for a “fixed price”. This same principle has remained in effect ever since. Now, after careful consideration, we’ve decided to change our pricing structure to coincide with the release of MIDAS v4.
The primary reason for this change is to ensure fairness for all our customers. We also want to facilitate greater access to our software to a wider audience. Under the previous “fixed price” pricing structure, a small organization with one administrator and a handful of rooms was paying the same price for MIDAS as a large organization with dozens of administrators and hundreds of rooms. To us, this didn’t seem fair!
The idea behind MIDAS “Lite”
That’s one of the reasons why last year we introduced a “cut-down” version of MIDAS, that we called MIDAS Lite. MIDAS Lite was designed to cater for smaller organizations and those on tighter budgets. MIDAS Lite was limited to 10 bookable spaces and a single user. It also didn’t include functions such as Statistics or Invoicing.
Replacing MIDAS “Lite”
With the release MIDAS v4, we’ve dropped our “Lite” edition of MIDAS, and changed our pricing structure. Now, the price you’ll pay for MIDAS will depend upon both the number of bookable spaces (venues) you wish to manage, and the number of user accounts required.
The new basic price for MIDAS will allow for a single user and up to 10 venues. This is similar to the previous limits that MIDAS Lite had. The new basic price includes all the features and functions of MIDAS (including Invoicing, Statistics, and Public Booking Requests, etc)
If you have more than 10 venues, or require multiple users have access, pricing options are available to meet your needs. You can also upgrade at any time to more venues/users. So as your business develops and grows, MIDAS can grow with you!
There are also “Unlimited” options available for both Venues and Users. Unlimited licenses remove limits on the number of venues and/or users you can add to your MIDAS system.
Our support/subscription pricing structure will also be updated to reflect the number of venues/users in your MIDAS.
How these changes will affect existing users
If you purchased MIDAS before 1st August 2012 and have a valid Annual Support Subscription, you’ll be entitled to a FREE update to MIDAS v4!
Users of MIDAS Lite will be entitled to upgrade to MIDAS with 1 user and 10 venues. These are the same limits you had in MIDAS Lite.
If you were using the full edition of MIDAS v3, there were no restrictions on the number of venues/users you could add to your system. For MIDAS v3 users, the same unlimited restrictions will apply when you update to MIDAS v4!
That’s right, existing customers will not have any limits imposed on the total number of venues/users they can add to MIDAS v4!.
We care a great deal about our existing customers, many of whom have been with us since the start! That’s why there will also be no increases in “Annual Support” or “Hosting + Annual Support Subscriptions” for existing customers! In fact, around 30% of existing customers (those with few users/venues) will actually find that their Annual Support/Hosting Subscriptions will decrease upon their next renewal!
We believe our new pricing structure, coinciding with the major new release of MIDAS v4, will be fairer for all. It will help make MIDAS more accessible to all organizations whatever their size!
As ever, we remain totally transparent and upfront about our pricing! Unlike many of our competitors who don’t display their pricing on their websites, our prices are always plainly shown at https://mid.as/pricing.
If you have any questions about our new pricing structure, please feel free to contact us.
UPDATE: Our cloud-hosted pricing model was subsequently updated again in 2020