Licensing and operating costs
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In this lesson
understand how licence models and run costs change the numbers.
Planned topics
- Licence models: per user, per store, per transaction, per volume tier, or platform fee; each scales differently.
- Hidden costs: environments, premium support, integration connectors, data egress, overage fees, price uplift clauses.
- Run costs: monitoring, patching, on-call, upgrades, skills.
- Check how cost behaves at 2x volume; some models explode.
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Demonstration
a small chart comparing per-transaction and per-store licences at 1x, 2x, 4x Larkspur volume (use assumed numbers and label them as such).
Check your understanding
Why model growth?
Show answer
Licence and usage costs scale with volume; a cheap start can become expensive later.
Practice
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