I’m checking to see if this has been addressed
We depend on this in other stores with our tools … all of which are code plugins so there is an ongoing cost to development and maintenance with frequent updates and live support
Directly we handled this via a subscription model that can be done monthly, quarterly or yearly
For other stores like UAS we do this with paid major updates yearly which isn’t ideal
Ideally
We would even be happy to give the plugin for free source included and have just a “maintenance” subscription clients could sub to that is what we do directly
You can get all of our tools and a perpetual license to use them by subbing up for 1 month or more that is yours to keep forever
if you want updates or more than community support you sub up for a period that suits you 1 month at a time or whatever else
GitHub Sponsor, Patreon, etc. all make that easy to implement directly but it would be a game changer if FAB had that as a feature of the store along with proper customer support e.g. informing users of it, how they can start and cancel easily using FABs payment processing and so on
I know a lot of tools devs use the same model and UAS not having that is a HUGE issue and why many push to move clients to direct licensing
PS
if its not clear why Major Update isn’t ideal
If we do yearly major updates and you purchase on Nov 1 (our start of year) then great you go 12 months before you need to pay the discounted upgrade fee which is really a maintenance fee
But if you purchase our asset Sep 1 … well now you feel ripped off, and yes we can do a grace period in other stores but it doesn’t change the fact that unless you purchase on Nov 1 your not getting a full 12 months and that grace period really only makes it worse … if you purchase on Sep 1 and we do a 60 day grace then your getting 14 months and some people absolutely do that math and adjust behaviour accordingly
Enter subscription
You start your monthly, quarterly or yearly sub on Jun 12th … and exactly 1 month, 3 or 12 later you are billed again, you don’t lose any time because you purchased in the middle of a major cycle.
PS v2
No subscription is not evil or anti consumer
Unless Unity, Adobe, etc. are doing it 
… because they take the license away when the sub ends and that is BS
Our subscription and the model I would want to see FAB let us do
WHen you sub for 1 period you get a license that is yours to keep, so you can cancel right then and there and keep using that version, with no future patches and no obligation of support at all for the rest of your life
Want an update, or need some formal support … okay sub up for a month and get a month of updates and support … want to save a few bucks and secure a year worth at a time fine offer quarterly and yearly options with a minor discount
this isn’t new, its how commercial software works … I know Epic is paying Microsoft and others “Maintenance” dues every couple years based on the number of users and all that or they are using direct subscriptions.
The same cost of on going development, maintenance and support applies to code tools as well. We need this or we cant create a viable business using FAB.
