How to price software you sell as a license
Price a non-exclusive software license with a worksheet for Buyer setup effort, comparable scope, and Builder proceeds after marketplace commission.
Read published Zero to Hundred guides about selling, with practical details for buying and selling software.
Price a non-exclusive software license with a worksheet for Buyer setup effort, comparable scope, and Builder proceeds after marketplace commission.
Write a software handoff README with setup steps, configuration notes, expected results, and a clean-copy rehearsal before you sell a license.
Envato moved authors to a flat 50% cut and dropped exclusivity. Here's the trade-off between owning your checkout, staying, and selling software outright.
Starters, internal software, and the per-seat replacements companies would rather own outright. Five kinds of software worth selling, and what makes each sell.
A subscription is recurring because you keep working. Licensing a finished codebase to many Buyers is a different trade. Here is the comparison.
You built working software. Sell a license to it now, no users or revenue required, and sell that same software again to the next Buyer. Here is how it pays.
Building software got cheap. Sell what you built for income, buy working software instead of building it, or buy a head start on your idea. Here is the fit.
A working app with no users can still have value. Use 3 questions to decide whether to keep finding users or sell a license to the code.