Per-user pricing punishes growth

Hire a casual for busy season. That is another $150/month.

Your software cost should not spike every December.

Growth penalties disguised as "fair pricing".

Per-user pricing sounds reasonable until you run a business.

Peak season? Triple the staff, triple the cost.

Training day? Everyone needs an account.

Sick cover? Another license.

So you do what everyone does:

Share logins.

Delete users constantly.

Make people wait for access.

None of this helps your operation.

All of it helps the vendor.

The real cost of per-user pricing:

Finance and ops fighting over licenses.

Security compromises from shared accounts.

Artificial friction on hiring.

Software should get cheaper as you grow, not more expensive.

That is how scale is supposed to work.

Fair pricing means paying for what you use, with a clear path to "stop paying per seat" once you are running an operation at scale.

How OpsUI structures this:

Five users included on every module and starter pack.

Linear NZ$99/user/month above that — no cliff bands.

Enterprise tier — all 21 modules, unlimited users, custom-quoted — for operations where per-seat fees stop being the right model.

Pricing that grows with you, not against you.