Because milk won't go up from $.99 to $99 per month in one day.
Of course inflation and rising costs are a fact of life. But the economies of scale in a business like this lead to lower prices, not higher ones and the main excuse chargify seems to have for raising their prices is the fact that they are successful at the 'free' tier.
Which is something they should have factored in from day one, not come up with after a whole bunch of people have tied in their lot with them. This is a black eye for the whole third-party processing business, not just for chargify.
You don't remind your customers how much you have them by the short & curlies if you can help it, you make course changes nice and slow so you don't rock the boat. And if you mess up your planning you can either open your books and work it out in tandem or you can eat the loss and charge it to your education fund.
Of course inflation and rising costs are a fact of life. But the economies of scale in a business like this lead to lower prices, not higher ones and the main excuse chargify seems to have for raising their prices is the fact that they are successful at the 'free' tier.
Which is something they should have factored in from day one, not come up with after a whole bunch of people have tied in their lot with them. This is a black eye for the whole third-party processing business, not just for chargify.
You don't remind your customers how much you have them by the short & curlies if you can help it, you make course changes nice and slow so you don't rock the boat. And if you mess up your planning you can either open your books and work it out in tandem or you can eat the loss and charge it to your education fund.