In January of 2021, I redesigned the Boords pricing page to reframe annual plans as discounts. I borrowed the idea from Manuel Frigerio's post on reframing discounts.
Here's what happened:
While absolute plan numbers increased, the percentage of annual vs monthly subscriptions did not (in fact they are generally lower). I take this to mean that for our audience, reframing annual plans as discounts doesn't work, but the new pricing page layout is more effective at converting customers.
Here's the old pricing page for reference. The plans run from low to high, whereas the new page uses high to low, which has been shown to boost conversion.
Of course, the pricing page doesn't exist in isolation, and we've added several new product landing pages with new creative, which certainly has had an effect.
On a technical note, I was able to gather the annual vs monthly data using a Stripe sigma query:
with subscriptions_by_interval as (
select
prices.recurring_interval as BillingInterval,
count(prices.recurring_interval) as Subscribers
from
subscriptions
inner join prices on subscriptions.price_id = prices.id
left join customers on subscriptions.customer_id = customers.id
where
prices.unit_amount > 0
and month(subscriptions.created) = 1 -- Change month number
and year(subscriptions.created) = 2021 -- Change year
group by
prices.recurring_interval
order by
prices.recurring_interval asc
)
select
BillingInterval as "Billing Interval",
Subscribers,
Subscribers * 100 / t.s AS "% of total"
from
subscriptions_by_interval
CROSS JOIN (
SELECT
SUM(Subscribers) AS s
FROM
subscriptions_by_interval
) t
Even though the experiment didn't boost the monthly to annual ratio, I'm delighted to achieve a higher-converting page overall.
My next step is to re-implement original monthly / annual toggle and see if that compounds the positive effect of the new pricing page design.