Product licence tier and pricing ladder worksheet

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Defines exactly what each licence tier permits and what each rung of the price ladder includes, so buyers and disputes both have one clear answer.

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Tier 1: personal or single use

Price
Number of individual users permitted
May be used for the buyer's own business? (yes/no)
May be used to deliver client work? (yes/no)
May be modified? (yes/no)
May be shared with a team? (yes/no)
Redistribution, resale, sublicensing: expressly prohibited (confirm wording)
Refund policy stated for this tier

Tier 2: commercial or client-work licence

Price
What the buyer may now do that Tier 1 forbids
Limit on number of client deliverables, if any
Attribution or branding requirements
Whether the buyer may sell derivatives (be explicit)
Upgrade path and price difference from Tier 1

Tier 3: team, agency or multi-seat

Price and seat count
How seats are counted and verified
Whether subcontractors of the buyer are covered
Renewal terms, if any
What happens when the team grows past the seat count

Add-on rungs

Bundle: which products, bundle price, discount versus buying separately
Course or cohort: price, what is included, access duration, live versus recorded
Done-with-you setup call: price, duration, what is delivered, what is explicitly not delivered
Membership: monthly and annual price, publishing cadence you can sustain, cancellation terms
White-label or extended rights: price, exactly what may be rebranded, what may never be

Consistency check before publishing

Every tier's permissions appear identically on the product page, in the licence file and in the receipt email
No tier promises anything about the buyer's earnings
Refund policy is visible before payment, not only after
Third-party asset licences permit the highest tier I am selling
Sales tax treatment checked for each tier (a service tier can be taxed differently from a file)

Use rule: Education and organization only. Record the agency, official source, checked date, cost, proof saved and responsible person for every consequential requirement. Unknown means stop and confirm. Example rows are labeled EXAMPLE and are not your data.