Do You Make and Sell Excel Add-Ins?

If you create an Excel add-in, and offer it for sale, how do you decide what to charge for that utility?

How Do You Price Software?

What is your pricing strategy?

  • Do you check out the competition and price your utility in the same range?
  • Do you crunch a pile of numbers in Excel, and base your price on the results?
  • Do you just make a wild guess, and put that price on the sticker?
  • Or something else?

Product Pricing Guide

To help you with pricing, you can get a copy of the book:

  • Don’t Just Roll the Dice: Usefully Short Guide to Software Pricing

It’s written by software developer, Neil Davidson, of Red Gate Software.

Your local library might have a copy of the book, that you could borrow. Or, check your local bookstore, to see if they have it in stock.

Or, if you’d like your own paperback copy of the book, or a digital copy for your Kindle reader, you can buy the book on Amazon.

Author’s Experiences

The book explores the economics and psychology of pricing, and the author cites his own experiences (good and bad) with software pricing.

It’s easy to read, with clear explanations and examples, and ends with a product pricing checklist.

It also has this sensible advice: “Try out your pricing and see what happens.”

Excel Add-Ins

If you buy someone else’s Excel utilities, there are steps on my Contextures site, for how to Install and Use Excel add-ins.

Usually, Excel add-ins are installed in Excel’s default folder for Add-ins. My instructions show you how to find that folder, or choose a different folder, if you prefer.

Free Excel Add-ins

I use a few free add-ins that make Excel even better, and asked other people what free add-ins they use, and would recommend.

I compiled a list, starting with my favourites. Maybe you’ll see a few that you can download and install, and make working in Excel a bit easier.

Click here to see my list of recommended free Excel add-ins.

More Excel Resources

For the latest Excel courses, Excel books and Excel add-ins and tools, go to the Debra’s Excel Picks page, on my Contextures website

I’ve listed my top picks for Excel courses, add-ins, books, and Excel tools. See how to raise your skills to expert level, and get tools that will save you time

Excel courses, books and tools - Debra's list
Excel courses, books and tools – Debra’s list

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