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Monthly Subscription to Storyline?
I have a client who is requesting a course be created in Captivate to match their other courses and I noticed they offer a monthly subscription as an alternative to purchasing the software. It's $29/mo. I thought this was a GREAT idea for people like me who don't use Captivate all that often.
Are there any plans for Storyline to offer a similar subscription plan? I'm going to be purchasing it anyway, but was just wondering
- MarkSchwartzFormer Staff
Hi Christina,
We are not looking at offering similar.
We also understand that it's $59 per month in a month/month subscription basis for Captivate 5.5.
We know once you get Storyline - you'll use it very often (even if you don't have to)!
- ChristinaStepheCommunity Member
Thanks Mark,
I'll be purchasing Storyline anyways, but thought it was a good idea
Unfortunately, from time to time, I do have clients who request courses be created in Captivate (because they have it and can go back in and edit later if needed), but I do find Storyline much more flexible and intuitive/easier to use.
BTW - they must have lowered the price. The website currently says $29 month-to-month (or 19/mo if you subscribe on an annual basis).
- KevinReed-6a154Community Member
Old post, but still valid....Would be nice to have the monthly SL option for those who don't have the money up front for SL. I bought Captivate at $30/month because I needed to learn it, and because I could afford it. I'd like to be using Storyline, as a contractor/small business, but again the up front cost is prohibitive at this time.
- EvonneRichards-Community Member
I was just looking at the same options today. I had thought Articulate offered monthly subscriptions earlier this year. It is expensive to purchase 360.
- KelliHartCommunity Member
I agree. I was hoping to use articulate as I have used it on trial once to play around with a small personal project and loved the features. But cannot afford this upfront cost for this one project. Unfortunately, I will be going with Captivate for this pretty big upcoming project. Would be happy to find that Articulate decides to make a similar offering. It would be an easy switch. Thanks!
Hi Kevin,
With Articulate 360 we switched to an annual subscription, which is a change from our previous perpetual license of Storyline or Studio. You can still purchase Storyline 3 as a one time, perpetual license but you may also want to take a look at the trial of Articulate 360 here!
Hi Evonne,
We haven't implemented monthly pricing for Articulate 360, but if you need to talk through your pricing options with our Sales team they'd be happy to help!
- UrsulaComeauCommunity Member
Guys, I really think this is a matter of listening to your customers! The question about whether or not you have monthly payment plans has come up so often everywhere in the forums that even your FAQ page has that question! Do you have any plans to finally offer a monthly subscription option? An idea is to do what Adobe CC does: they offer monthly subscriptions, but you are locked in for a year. If you cancel within that year, you are charged a cancellation fee.
As a small business, it is extremely prohibitive to purchase Articulate products simply because you don't offer monthly subscription plans. Your customer base would grow exponentially if you did, and again, just implement the one year commitment rule and you don't have to worry about anyone jumping ship.
Why is it taking you guys so long to offer us an option like this? How many more customer requests will it take for Articulate to finally offer a monthly subscription option? I've been checking back for several years and frankly, I'm surprised you still don't offer this.
- HelenaSmith-805Community Member
A monthly subscription would be great
- PaulNjuguna-8baCommunity Member
I really wanted monthly, bummer, 1k is too hard
- LauraCromb-SmitCommunity Member
I think that offering a monthly subscription is a great idea. I really don't have the budget to blow almost 2 thousand dollars AUD at once when I have resources and invoices that need to be stretched over each month, but a monthly subscription would really negate this issue for us.
I'd love to get involved with articulate but at the moment it's just not possible when you're not offering a flexible plan or options for those of us who don't work for large corporations or have the money to fork out up front. I've been told that articulate is fantastic to use and super intuitive, but at the moment it's just not a possibility for us.
Here's hoping that the amount of comments and topics i've seen about this will finally come to fruition and we'll see a change in the subscription model.
- CindyBowersCommunity Member
Agree and wish there was an option for a monthly subscription. I do small projects throughout the year but oftentimes they're spread out so I'll sit 6 months wasting a subscription when I could do month to month. I've even suggested other programs to customers that take me more time to use but are either month to month or I have the software already loaded, just so that I don't to pay $1K up front for a project that might only last 1 month.