Regarding Business Plan in WordPress
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Hi,
We’ve been running a portal with ‘Mystique’ wordpress theme since 2013. Basically, it is an online magazine in ‘Kannada’ – A language spoken by 65 million people.
Right now we are planning to upgrade to ‘Business Plan’ which is being offered at $24.92 per month, about $299.04 per annum. Before upgrading to Business plan, we would like to know about few things:
1. Can the portal name be retained as is ? (We don’t want to change portal’s name)
2. Modes of payment available
3. Available Renewal modes
4. Any other extra costs/charges?
5. Regarding Google analytics – is it part of Business plan or to be paid separately?
6. List of premium themes – is it part of Business plan or premium themes to be paid for separately?
7. Any pointers or useful info regarding utilization of business plan(ex: demo links, PPTs etc)Request you to help us with details regarding the above, so that we can make our decision at the earliest.
Thanks.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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There is no monthly payment plan here. All upgrades must be paid for in full at the time of purchase and we are billed annually.
WordPress.com provides free blogs and hosts them free of charge. There are no bandwidth charges. All WordPress.com blogs come with 3000 megabytes (~3 GBs) of space for storing uploaded files and images. Free features are listed here https://en.wordpress.com/features/
See here for details of all 3 plans http://store.wordpress.com/bundles/ offered by WordPress.com.
Premium bundle details http://store.wordpress.com/plans/premium/
Premium
WordPress.com Premium
$8.25 per month, billed yearlyBusiness bundle details http://store.wordpress.com/plans/business/
Business
WordPress.com Business
$24.92 per month, billed yearlyThe policy and prices have changed. All new accounts must purchase the Premium bundle of upgrades. Only renewal of an existing domain mapping upgrade is now available at the lower price. See: http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/register-domain/More info:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/domain-mapping-1118?replies=10#post-2641970Note that each upgrade bundle applies to a single blog only and is for a single year only when it is due to be renewed.
We all pay in full for every upgrade at the time of purchase. Make sure you read the comparison very closely do you know exactly what the restrictions and limitations on WordPress.COM blogging are: http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
Read Important Notes Before Upgrading http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/#important-notes-before-upgrading
There are no premium themes included in the premium upgrade bundle. http://store.wordpress.com/plans/premium/ And every premium theme is individually priced.
You must be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard and purchase upgrades at > Dashboard> Store > My Upgrades
https://en.support.wordpress.com/my-upgrades/Your billing history will be at Dashboard > Store > Billing History
https://en.support.wordpress.com/billing-history/Your only options for payment are found here http://en.support.wordpress.com/payment/
WordPress.com provides a 30-day refund on all upgrades except Domain Registrations, Domain Renewals, and Guided Transfers. The refund period for Domain Registrations and Renewals is 48 hours.
Note: It takes from 1 – 2 weeks for the refund to be received.
You have to be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard, cancel any upgrades, claim a refund for any qualified upgrades, and disable auto-renew. Dashboard > Store > My Upgrades. You can also disable auto-renew there. http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-upgrades/#canceling-upgrades
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Hi there,
It looks like you added the tag as @timethief instructed, but you haven’t posted any follow-up questions. What else would you like to know?
I’m not sure what you mean by running a “portal”. If you want a site where people can sign up for memberships and the like, WordPress.com is not the right host for your site as that’s not possible here. We don’t have any option to have a forum on your site or to have visitors contribute content.
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Thanks timethief for the response.
Hi Kokkieh,
Its online magazine as I had also mentioned in my post.
Need more clarity on selection of themes. Upgrade to Business plan will give unlimited access to advanced premium themes. So if we change the theme say from ‘premium theme1’ to ‘premium theme2’, do we need to pay for the new theme again or payment for Business Plan covers cost of themes as well?
Thanks,
Annadanesh -
As long as you have the Business plan active you can switch from one Premium theme to another as often as you want without needing to pay anything extra. The only point at which you’d need to pay for a Premium theme is if you were to cancel the Business plan.
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Thanks for this much needed clarification. Need few more such clarifications.
This is our online magazine link, hosted on wordpress – https://honalu.net
It’s a primary registered domain with wordpress. Hope this remains same even after upgrading to business plan ( we want to retain the same URL )
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Upgrading to Business won’t change your site’s URL.
I recommend you use the same username that already owns the domain to buy the Business plan, however. If you do that the domain will be bundled with your plan, which means renewing the plan will also renew your domain every year, so you won’t need to pay for the domain separately.
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Thanks kokkieh. Had issues upgrading to business plan. Now got them resolved and finally portal is on business plan :)
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