One of the most important pages for a web app business is the pricing plan page. If users can’t see the value they’ll get by signing up, they won’t even think about giving you their money. In order to convert visitors into customers, you have to design a pricing table that makes your pricing plans appealing. These pricing table strategies will help you convert interested visitors into paying customers.

1. Soften the Pricing

Your pricing table should show the price for each plan, but don’t make it obvious to users that they’re about to spend a lot of money by emphasizing the prices. Instead, soften the pricing by putting more emphasis on the benefits and features for each plan. The more users focus on the benefits and features, the more value they’ll feel like they’ll get from you if they sign up. To soften the pricing even more, avoid adding cents to your prices. Adding in cents adds more numbers to the price and makes it feel like they’re going to spend a lot of money.

2. Add a Higher Pricing Plan as a Decoy

Despite softening the pricing, pricing is still a deciding factor for some people. Many people just won’t pay for your highest pricing plan simply because it’s the most expensive. However, add a higher pricing plan into the mix and all of that changes. This pricing plan serves as a decoy to deflect focus off your highest pricing plan. Now, your highest pricing plan isn’t the most expensive, the decoy one is. When users compare plans, your high pricing plans won’t look so expensive next to the decoy. They’ll likely ignore the decoy and consider your other pricing plans.

3. Place Them in Descending Order

It’s a lot easier for users to move down on pricing than it is for them to move up. Start them off at the high-end and they won’t be able to ignore your high pricing plans. Start them off at the low-end and they’ll likely ignore the higher pricing plans and consider only the cheaper ones. Order your pricing plans from left to right by most expensive to least expensive, so that you’ll immediately expose users to the high pricing plans that they would otherwise ignore. Instead of only paying attention to the cheaper pricing plans, they’re now forced to look at all of them without bias.

4. Highlight the Middle Plan

Most users will often end up choosing a plan that’s not too expensive or cheap. Make it easy for users to decide which pricing plan they should choose by highlighting one in the middle. By doing this, users will focus on the one you highlight and consider it more. Show users that it’s the most popular plan by making it standout head and shoulders above the rest and it will look like the most attractive choice.

5. Use Strikethroughs for Absent Features

You might not offer all of your features on every plan. For plans you don’t offer a feature on, use strikethrough text to show users what they’re missing. Most plans show users what they get, but it’s important to show users what they don’t get with each plan. This allows users to clearly see the differences between each plan. Some users might choose a plan based on the fact that it has a feature the other plans don’t have. Use text strikethroughs to your advantage.

6. Downplay the Free Plan

Almost every web application will offer a free plan for users to try. However, not every pricing plan will make this glaringly visible. Downplay the free plan and you might find more users choosing between your paid plans. However, you should never downplay your 30-day free trials. Users want to try your application before they buy it. Because of that, all pricing plans should come with 30-day free trials. The benefit of deflecting users from your free plan is that when the free trial period ends, users have to decide with their credit card whether they want to cancel or continue using your service.

7. Quantify Feature Power with Numbers and Unlimited

When users compare pricing plans, seeing a plan that’s limited in feature power next to a plan with unlimited feature power is quite compelling, especially if the price difference isn’t much. Unlimited is a word that conveys freedom, power and flexibility. To give users no limits to what they can do with your features is a selling point you can take advantage of. Give your higher pricing plans unlimited feature power, while limiting the feature power of your lower pricing plans, and you’ll make your higher pricing plans that much more attractive.

These design strategies should help you make more money from users who have an interest in your product. If your web application sparks no interest, there is no design strategy out there that can save you. Give users a web application that’s useful and beneficial to them, and they’ll give you the return you’re looking for.

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8. Include Your FAQ at the Bottom

Don’t leave any of your user’s questions unanswered. A simple and concise FAQ at the bottom of your pricing table that covers the most common questions can make users feel comfortable signing up for a plan. For uncommon questions, send them to your contact page.

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