 Do I charge for beta?
jacquesm: Figure you're going to be doing 1:150 free signups and 1:2000 paid signups. And that's if you do well. Beta testing is testing all your features with customers being aware that you are not yet 'officially open', so they'll be more forgiving when stuff does not work, but on average it should work most of the time and it is fine to charge for a beta period, you could:- charge the full rate, and give credits when you mess up- charge a reduced rate during the beta period, but
   advertise clearly the rates will go up once the beta is over- charge a reduced rate and keep on charging that reduced
   rate after the beta is over for those that signed up
   during the beta periodThe latter has one really nice advantage, retention will be insanely high for those customers because they really don't want to fall back in to the high bracket if they would let their payments lapse.