Who it is for
Every business owner paying monthly for software they will never own.
Business and Money · Calculator · Free
Add up what you pay just to exist online The Rent Receipt
Website builder, email tool, booking app, CRM seats, review software. Stack them up and see the yearly number they never show you.
Runs in your browser. Nothing to install. Save the result or embed it on your site.
Your numbers
What that means
Your rent, every month: $395
$395
Your rent, every month
$4,740 a year, 5 subscriptions
$27,808
Five years of rent
$68,666
Ten years of rent
$0
What you own at the end
you stop paying, it all disappears
$12.99
Cost per day
Includes the 8% a year they raise it on you.
Yr 1: $4,740. By Yr 10: $68,666.
$68,666 over ten years, and on the last day you own exactly nothing. That is the whole business model they are running on you.
This is not an argument against every subscription. It is an argument against renting the parts of your business you cannot afford to lose.
What this assumed
- Assumes the annual increase you enter compounds every year on the whole stack.
Runs in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere.
This is an estimate
This tool returns an estimate based on the numbers you entered. Your real result depends on your own costs, rates and conditions. Check it against your own records before you make a decision with it.
What this tool actually does for you
The problem it points at
Nine subscriptions at $39 to $299 a month never feel like much on their own. Together they are a truck payment, every month, forever, for something you can never sell, keep, or move.
What you walk away with
The total. Then the five and ten year number, which is the one that actually stings.
How to use it
Takes about two minutes. Be honest with the numbers, the tool is not going to tell anybody.
- Go through your bank statement and check off everything you pay monthly.
- Adjust the amounts to what you actually pay.
- Look at the ten year number.
- Decide how much of that stack you want to own instead of rent.
Keep learning
Go a little deeper.
See how this tool fits a practical task, with a guide you can follow at your own pace.
Wix, Squarespace, Shopify: what your monthly fee actually buys
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Read the guideThe rent receipt: add up what your business pays every month to exist online
Site builder, email tool, booking app, CRM seats, review widget. The worksheet that totals your real software rent, and how to read the number honestly.
Read the guideQuestions people ask
Is renting software always bad?
No. Some tools are worth renting forever. The problem is renting your entire operation, so the day you stop paying, your website, your customer list, and your booking system all disappear. Own the core. Rent the edges.
What does owning it look like?
Your site lives in your own repo, deploys to your own hosting account, and your data sits in your own database. If a vendor doubles their price or shuts down, you move it and keep working.
Put this tool on your own website
Free forever. I host it. You keep it.
This is a real lead magnet you can run on your own site tonight. Somebody lands on your page, plays with the numbers, sees what their problem costs, and now they are on your website instead of a competitor's. Costs you nothing, and I keep it working.
- Scroll up and press Put this tool on my website. The code appears right there, no form.
- Copy the one line you get.
- In your website editor, add an Embed, HTML or Custom Code block on whatever page you want it on.
- Paste it in, save, publish.
- Check it on your phone, then send people to that page.
Works on
WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, GoDaddy, Webflow, Duda, HubSpot, ClickFunnels, or plain HTML. Anywhere that takes an embed code.
What it costs you
Nothing. No monthly fee, no expiring trial, no watermark you have to pay to remove. If you get stuck putting it in, text me at (903) 500-8898 and I will help you place it.
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