Freemius Reviews & Product Details

People underestimate what Freemius can do for your business, especially for developers coming from the EU.

Merchant of Record:

This is almost no way around having a merchant of record to collect and manage taxes worldwide as a company from within the EU.

You would most likely need a full-time contractor to handle that, and paying the revenue share to Freemius is nowhere near the typical salaries here.

This is the most important benefit for me using Freemius, but there is a lot more:

Integration:

The integration in your plugin couldn't be easier. Even if you are a beginner to WordPress development, you will not have any problems integrating it, separating pro-and-free features, and including/excluding files.

Software licensing:

This is also a huge benefit. Sure, there are self-hosted (or plugin solutions) to that. But think of your business in the long-term - do you really want to store 200-500k licenses in your WordPress installation? How do you make it searchable? Exportable? Well, with Freemius, you don't even have to worry.

Recurring Payments:

Sure, integrating stripe is easy these days, but that's only a small part of the solution. Handling invoices, validating VAT numbers, preventing fraud, and doing automatic retries are not easy.

There is a lot more to Freemius, but here are the some of the most important features for me:

- stressfree refund handling

- prorating purchases

- impersonated logins

Support:

It's personal, it's fast, and it's reliable.

If you need help (business-related, tech-related), someone can help you.

You will get to know some of the coolest people in the WordPress space here. Trust me, you will also be a fanboy soon ;-)

There is also a large Slack community to exchange ideas and more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

To be honest, there isn't much to dislike at Freemius.

I would like to see a couple of improvements on the UI side of things, especially the implementation part on your own website (I don't use the payment integration within my products).

More freedom to customize the checkout, better integration of the account area, and maybe some embeddable widgets to show reviews and some stats on the website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Freemius ideally implements the subscriptions model and do it perfectly. It manages the whole subscription renewal and abandoned cart recover process.

It also implements the whole payments/refund functionality working as an intermediary people can trust more that any single plugin developer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

* Partners can not be added to plugins to share revenue automatically.

* Automated affiliation tools to promote other freemius-based plugins would help a lot.

* Cryptocurrency payment methods to accept crypto from your plugin buyers/subscribers is needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Freemius offers so many features that every professional plugin developer would want: licensing, affiliate platform, cart abandonment, subscriptions, etc. The list goes on!

Not only is it a great product, but the people behind it are awesome too. Vova, Leo and the team are always friendly and very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I cannot think of anything. Freemius is my partner of choice! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Freemius takes away a lot of hassle that you don't want to be dealing with as a programmer, and it allows me to focus on what I like to do best: programming. They handle taxes, plugin distribution/deployment, licensing, sales and so much more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing really comes to mind. Whenever there is a problem the support team is really helpful and quick to respond. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Freemius allows us to focus on solving business problems. Without wasting time on license management, accompanying email and other details. I also want to note the excellent support and friendly community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The affiliate marketing system has not been fully developed. We would like to have automatic payments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Freemius lets you focus on the development of the plugins, and they take care of everything else.

They are true partners who are always happy to help and give good advice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing that I have in my mind. We enjoy working with Freemius. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's a one-stop shop that's tailor-made for our needs and the team is dedicated to our success. The onboarding of email opt-in is one of the most appealing aspects of Freemius to me. With a database of more than 60,000 subscribers, we've seen an immediate boost in conversions. Now that we have this huge email list available to us, we may develop a fantastic onboarding campaign to gradually increase sales. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is not much to dislike about freemius. Actually, we are satisfied with every aspect of the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've been with Freemius for several years and they've been great! Being a one-person operation, It's great to be able to outsource all the licensing and payment collection to a professional team like Freemius! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes there are small issues, but when they happen Freemius support is quick and professional. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Freemius makes it easy to monetize your code. You don't have to build a new licensing service or use less reliable ones out there. Freemius makes it easy as pie to add licensing and payment features to your products; all the analytics and other marketing capabilities it comes with are cherries on top of the cake. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The site design could be better. The product is excellent, but even in the soon-to-come freemius.com dashboard, I find the design a bit lacking.

I think the whole freemius.com website could use a redesign to improve the UI while also keeping in mind the UX features I'm sure are already taken into consideration in the current design. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If it weren't for Freemius, I would be wasting my time on tasks that I have don't have the resources to properly deal with.

Using Freemius makes me feel like I have a dedicated development team that deals with the deployment side of my products. I feel like everything is under control and my team and I can focus on what we do best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't have any more free time because so many people are buying my products so I have to provide support.

If you aren't ready to give up your development hobby and make your software products your full-time business, then this isn't for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.