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frankferma

Guys thanks for the comments and advice. I'm going to avoid to sell a perpetual license.
Perpetual license on the core of my service, not the code and not the whole SaaS, I will provide the core service inside a virtual image
This is one of the things I want to avoid, I don't want to be out off business and generate a problem for my current client, the service is critical for them
Why not? My net profit is very low with the monthly payment
Why not? I forget to say my net profit is very low

Ask HN: A company wants to buy me a perpetual license, how can I value it?

I'm a solo business with a SaaS (It is a software to process data, I prefer not to reveal the name) and one of my clients, the bigger one pay me around $1800 per month for the service, my client wants a perpetual license (they are a large company and need to keep control over it) how can I set a value for it? My net profit for this client is only 15% (I pay AWS costs to keep the service...

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