woo-marketplace-pricing

What problem does it solve?

It helps you avoid underpricing or overpricing your WooCommerce plugin on the WooCommerce.com Marketplace by producing a justified annual and monthly price recommendation tied to competition, complexity, support cost break-even, and revenue split assumptions.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Competitor pricing research: Identifies pricing signals in the marketplace for plugins in the same category and captures comparable products and pricing for benchmarking.
• Complexity- and category-based pricing framework: Converts plugin scope (feature category, number/complexity of features, API integration, settings depth) into a tiered pricing range and multipliers.
• Revenue split and profitability validation: Simulates vendor net revenue using the 70/30 marketplace split and checks whether the price covers estimated support costs and supports a realistic break-even.
• Freemium and monthly subscription strategy: Recommends whether to offer Freemium and how to design monthly vs annual plans (including SaaS Billing API requirements for monthly options).
• Japan market positioning: Adjusts pricing assumptions for smaller local market size and typical Japanese merchant expectations, including JPY reference points.

Quick Start

Use this skill to recommend an annual marketplace price and an optional monthly plan for the attached WooCommerce plugin by asking the AI to base the recommendation on feature complexity, competitor benchmarks, 70/30 revenue net revenue, support-cost break-even, and Japan-specific pricing assumptions.