Pay once
$2,200
one payment, and there is no second one
The whole thing, owned outright. Your receipt is the licence.
$2,200 in total, paid in a single charge.
Pricing
Three ways to pay for the same thing
The software does not change between these options. What changes is when the money moves, and how much of it moves each time. All three buy the same permanent licence for one workstation.
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The three ways to pay
Most people spread this over a year
Monthly for twelve months
$200/mo
twelve payments, then it is yours
Same licence, same software, no reduced edition while you are paying it off.
$2,400 in total. Nothing left to pay at the end of month twelve.
Monthly for twenty-four months
$110/mo
twenty-four payments, then it is yours
The smallest monthly number, if $200 a month is the wrong shape for your cash flow this year.
$2,640 in total. This is a payment schedule, not a two-year rental.
There is no fourth version. A licence paid for monthly is not a subscription. Nothing switches off, no feature stops working, and no export is held back when the last payment clears. Paying over twenty-four months does not buy twenty-four months of FoundrySuite; it buys the same FoundrySuite, spread out.
There is a thirty-day free trial of the whole product. Use it against your own data and decide afterwards — see how to install it.
The three side by side
Including the row that matters most: what you still have on the last day.
| Pay once | 12 × $200 | 24 × $110 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What you pay | $2,200 | $2,400 | $2,640 |
| When you pay it | Once, today | Monthly for a year | Monthly for two years |
| Charges after the last one | None, ever | None — the licence is permanent | None — the licence is permanent |
| What you have when payments end | FoundrySuite, licensed | FoundrySuite, licensed | FoundrySuite, licensed |
| Updates | Yours to take | Yours to take | Yours to take |
| Feature differences | None | None | None |
| Works offline | Everything but web research | Everything but web research | Everything but web research |
| If a payment does not go through | Not applicable | Email us. See the box below. | |
If a monthly payment does not go through
Tell us. That is a conversation with a person, not an automated switch. What happens in practice is that we email you, and we would rather sort it out than have a business unable to reach its own books because of a card expiry.
We are not describing a punitive failure policy here, because we do not have one, and writing a reassuring-sounding one would be a lie. Ask us and get the real answer.
Which one to pick
- Pay once if $2,200 in one go is not a problem. It is the cheapest of the three.
- Twelve months if it is a real but manageable number this year. Nine per cent over the outright price.
- Twenty-four months if cash flow is the constraint. Twenty per cent over the outright price, in exchange for a monthly number forty-five per cent smaller.
We take a little more in total on the instalment plans. We are telling you that here rather than hoping you would not add it up.
Why per workstation and not per seat
It is not a discount dressed up as a model. It is a consequence of where the software lives.
A cloud CRM is rented per user because every user's activity costs the vendor something: compute, storage, bandwidth, support. Charging by seat is how that cost is recovered, and it is why a business adding a fifth person is quoted a number that arrives with a frown.
FoundrySuite runs on a computer you already own. Nobody else’s running costs go up when you use it, so there is nothing for us to recover from you. Adding a colleague means another licence and nothing else — no hosting bill, no charge per person per month to pass along, no conversation about which features unlock above a headcount you have not reached yet.
What that means in practice
- The application has no seat counting in it. The licence is between you and us; the software does not police it.
- Guest access, family use, a second machine for the same person — these are licensing questions for us, not obstacles in the product.
- Renewal is not a mechanism for turning features back off. Nothing you rely on is held hostage to next year's invoice.
What your money is not buying
And the reason this list exists: most software pricing pages describe what you get, and skip the thing you would most like to know.
| You are not paying for | Because |
|---|---|
| Hosting your data | It is on your disk. We have no servers holding it and no bill for storing it. |
| AI tokens | Inference runs on your machine. There is no metered credit system, because there is no meter on our side to read. |
| Email sending | FoundrySuite has no send button. Sending is yours, through your own mail, with your own deliverability to protect. |
| A feature unlock | There is no free tier and no upgrade path. You buy the product, not access to a part of it. |
| Your data as leverage | The database is a file on your disk. Leaving costs you a folder, not an export negotiation. |
| Updates you never asked for | New versions sit available. Your copy changes when you change it. |
What the money does to the two of you
The four rows a buyer actually argues about. The wider case against a hosted vendor is on why it runs on your machine, and it is not repeated here.
| Typical cloud CRM | FoundrySuite | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost direction | Rises with every user, every year | Falls to zero after the last payment |
| What happens if you stop paying | Access ends; export becomes a fight | Nothing. The data is a file you can read |
| AI features | Often a paid add-on, metered or tiered | Included, running on your own hardware |
| Price transparency | Tiered, and the fine print is tiered too | Three numbers, no fine print |
The right-hand column describes what we built. If a vendor offers you something equivalent, buy theirs — but ask them the question in the left column first and see whether the answer is a page or a person.
The questions about money
Is the monthly option really a subscription?
No, and this is the question we most want to be unambiguous about. The monthly options are payment schedules for the same permanent licence. When the final payment clears, the licence is yours and there is nothing further to pay, ever. There is no code in FoundrySuite that checks whether you have paid this month, because a local application cannot phone home and we did not build it to try.
What do I get after paying on a plan?
The installer, on a page only you can reach, and a licence file in the same email. What you install is the same program you evaluated, with nothing switched off — the only difference is that the paid build reads that licence instead of ignoring it. The check is entirely local: it reads one file, verifies a signature against a key built into the program, and never contacts anyone. That is also why it keeps working with the network unplugged. If you want to know what you are installing before you decide, the install page covers it.
Why do the instalment plans cost more in total?
Because a payment schedule carries risk that a single charge does not. We are showing the real total on this page rather than a friendly monthly figure and the hope that you would not add it up.
What if we move to a bigger machine?
Send us one line and we will reissue the licence for the new computer, free, for as long as you own it. A licence is tied to one workstation so a single purchase cannot be copied around a company, but nothing about it is a dongle: it is a file, not a piece of hardware, and replacing a dead machine is an email rather than a support call.
Can we share one licence across a few people?
Ask us. The application does not count seats, so the conversation is a commercial one rather than a technical block — and we would rather do that honestly than have you discover a limit later.
What about support and updates?
The support page says what we answer, by whom, and what we have not decided. We would rather say that than sell you a support tier you may never use.
What if it turns out we do not want it?
That is what the thirty-day trial is for. It needs no card and no payment step, which is why we encourage putting your own data into it before you pay for anything. A refund for a purchase you regret is not something we have decided; the support page says so rather than inventing a policy.