Glossary
A
B
D
E
F
Features
Features are the extras a plan bundles, such as free SSL, backups or email, and they often decide whether a cheaper plan is the …
Founded
Founded is the year a company was set up.
Free plan
A free plan is a version you can use at no cost, often with limits.
Free plan limits
Free plan limits are the caps a marketing tool places on its free tier, and they decide whether a trial is long enough to …
Free trial length
A free trial is the stretch you can use a product before you pay, and its length tells you how long you have to …
Free WHOIS privacy
Whether a registrar hides the owner of a domain in the public lookup at no extra charge.
H
Headquarters
Headquarters is the country where a company's head office is registered.
HIPAA
HIPAA is the US privacy rule for health information, and hosting that names it signals it will sign the agreements a healthcare business needs.
Hosting types
Hosting types are the kinds of server setup a provider sells.
I
Integrations
An integration count is how many other tools a service can connect to, and those connections move data for you without retyping.
Intro price
The intro price is the discounted rate a provider advertises for a new plan, usually for the first billing period only.
Intro price term
Intro price term is the number of months a discounted first price stays on your bill before the regular rate takes over.
J
L
M
MAS
MAS is the legal form used in Uzbekistan, and a company named with MAS in its title reports the exact registered entity name.
MGA
MGA is the currency code for the Malagasy ariary, and it is how local hosting and domain quotes in Madagascar are priced.
Money-back period
The money-back period is the window in which you can cancel and get your first payment back.
P
Package price from
The lowest a formation package costs, usually an entry tier that bundles the basics.
Payroll
Payroll means the software runs salary runs for your staff itself, whether that is part of the base package or sold as a paid …
Plan tiers
The named steps a vendor climbs through, from a starter level up to a custom top tier.
Platforms
Platforms are the devices and systems a product runs on, and they tell you whether it fits the way your team already works.
Price at 10k contacts
The monthly cost of an email service's entry paid plan at a large list size, billed monthly, and how five providers compare at that …
Price at 1k contacts
The monthly cost of an email service's entry paid plan at a smaller list size, billed monthly, which sets the baseline before a list …
Price from
Price from is the cheapest entry paid plan, worked out on monthly billing.
Price per user from
The lowest cost for a single seat on a paid plan, per month when billed monthly.
Pricing model
The pricing model is the pattern of how a provider charges you.
Product
What a tool actually does, which is where a customer relationship manager and a help desk stop being interchangeable.
R
S
State fee included
A state fee is the government charge for registering a company, and whether a formation package absorbs it changes the real first-year cost.
Stripe
Stripe is a card and payments processor, and seeing it listed among supported platforms tells you a provider's tools can take payments directly.
Support channels
Support channels are the ways you can reach a provider when something goes wrong.
T
Templates
A template count is how many ready made site designs a builder gives you, and a bigger library means less custom design work.
Tool type
Tool type is the category of job a product does.
Transaction fee
A cut a store takes from each sale, on top of the plan price you already pay.
Turnaround time
Turnaround time is the working time between paying for a company registration and the finished company being handed over.
U
Uptime guarantee
An uptime guarantee is the share of time a provider commits to keeping a service reachable, usually backed by credits.
Usage limits
Usage limits cap how much you can send, store or change inside a plan period, so they decide whether the price still holds.
Users included
The number of named seats a plan covers before you start paying for extra people.
W
#
.com domain first year
A .com domain first year price is the promotional cost of registering the extension for a single year, with the standard rate normally returning …
.com domain renewal
A .com domain renewal is the full registration price you pay each year after the first year, which is what a kept domain actually …
.com transfer
The one-off fee a registrar charges to move an existing .com domain to it, on top of the yearly renewal.