I am from Portland, Oregon, USA, and I work for a software design co-op called The Rose Encoded. We are launching a lead generation campaign for Nextcloud Hub installations. The customer contracts would belong to my co-op, but we would like to partner with individuals and who are experienced Nextcloud admins. We will handle the billing, onboarding, and ticketing. You host and service the customer. We want to charge a volume price in the neighborhood of $20 to $25/month. If you’re interested, please include in your response how much of that monthly subscription you need and how many customers to cover your expenses.
Hi
Not sure to understand but you want to act as a wholesaler for a bunch of individual Netxcloud hosters in the background ?
What is ticketing ? not sure to understand ?
Your price means nothing !! It depends of apps wanted in NC, storage avalaible, number of users, also is it NC open-source or the licenced version ?
Vincèn
Thanks for the sharp questions. You’re right, vague pricing is useless.
Here’s what we’re doing: We curate Nextcloud instances for organizations (including nonprofits and others priced out of commercial office suites). Our hoster partners deploy and manage those instances.
We start with a base tier that includes essential Nextcloud open-source apps: Files, Talk (video/voice), Calendar, Contacts, Mail, Tasks, Notes, and Deck (project board). We also want to add Collectives and Cospend. In turn, the customer gets a simple, stable setup. Pricing scales with the customer’s team size (cost per user per month).
My company then upsells customers with our custom-made Nextcloud apps. We may add additional Nextcloud apps if they support our infrastructure. The inclusion of our apps changes the price tier, but each tier will have the same storage scaling.
So yes, we’re the integrators. The hosters do the hosting. Our customers get predictable pricing based on the apps they use and the storage they consume. The pricing we agree on with our hosting partners is to keep the model sustainable for everyone.
Thanks for the details and yep I better understand your idea altough not sure how it would work irl
You have also to take into consideration where are hosters you are going to work with and your customers (you don’t want to use a hoster in Europe for a company based in Asia for example).
If you manage the onboarding it implies you’ll be able to work only with very big hosters that have full automated control panel to create new hosting accounts in their platform (which is not my case for example)…
