bbsucks.com The bill
A per-seat runtime license arrives one invoice at a time, once a year, for decades — which is why nobody ever totals it up. Set these three to yours.
People who need a login on the system.
5250
Your number. The starting figure is a placeholder, not anyone's price.
$100$2,000
How long the license has been renewing.
140
$400 is a placeholder you adjust, not a claim about anyone's pricing. Your real figure is on your renewal invoice.
What you have already paid
$150,000
= 25 seats × $400 a seat × 15 years
Flat multiplication at today's rate. No indexing, no interest, no present value — just the three numbers above, multiplied.
The next ten years, as things stand
Same seats, same license, with a 3% increase applied each year and disclosed.
$114,639
The same ten years with us
Half the license. Hosting, backups and disaster recovery included, and the same 3% applied to our side too.
$57,319
The difference
Line one minus line two. Money you keep, on your own assumptions.
$57,320
Over that decade, the difference is roughly another person on the payroll.
At 25 seats, $400 per seat per year, over 15 years: already paid, $150,000. The next ten years as things stand, $114,639. The same ten years with us, $57,319. The difference, $57,320.
Your actual number is on an invoice in your drawer.
Send us your programs and we'll tell you what it takes to stop paying it. The compatibility report is free and automated — upload a tarball of your source and you get back what parses, what doesn't, and what we'd need to look at next. No call, no salesperson, no obligation.
01 The arithmetic
No discount rate, no net present value, no compounding you can't see. If the maths looked rigged the whole page would be worthless, so here it is with your numbers substituted live.
1 Already paid
seats × price × years= 25 × $400 × 15 = $150,000
Every year is multiplied at today's rate. Prices rose over that period and your seat count moved, and we have modelled neither — the moment we do, you can no longer check the number without a spreadsheet.
2 Next ten years, as things stand
seats × price × 11.4638793= 25 × $400 × 11.4638793 = $114,639
11.4638793 is 1 + 1.03 + 1.03² … + 1.03⁹, rounded to seven decimals — ten annual payments with a 3% increase each year. That 3% is the only escalation on this page, it is disclosed here and nowhere else, and it is applied to both sides. We multiply by exactly the figure printed above, so running this line on a calculator returns the same dollar.
3 Next ten years, with us
seats × (price ÷ 2) × 11.4638793= 25 × $200 × 11.4638793 = $57,319
Half the license is the actual commercial offer, not a promotion. Hosting, backups and disaster recovery are included in that figure and are not counted anywhere as a saving.
4 The difference
line 2 − line 3= $114,639 − $57,319 = $57,320
Figures are rounded to the nearest dollar, and the difference is the subtraction of the two rounded figures shown — so what you see adds up exactly.
Nothing here is priced against your contract, your term, your seat mix or your support line. A real number needs your real renewal invoice in front of us, and takes about a minute once we have it.
We make no statement about what any vendor charges anybody. The slider starts at a round placeholder purely so the page renders something; every figure on it moves when you set that slider to your own number.
We multiply flat at today's rate rather than reconstructing a decade of increases, and we don't touch inflation or the cost of the hardware the runtime sat on. Your invoices are the real record, and in most shops they total more than this page does.
If we left the increase off our own side the gap would be wider. We didn't, because a comparison where only the other party's price rises is not a comparison.
The server, its backups, its disaster recovery and its eventual replacement are included in our half and excluded from the difference above. Whatever that box costs you today is on top of every figure on this page.
Half the license and free hosting are the terms, in full, and they don't change with the size of the number above. The rest is on uniquebb.com/pricing.
Freeze on the Friday, copy the files, run the weekend in parallel, point the terminals at the new host on Monday morning. Your programs are not edited and your data files are not converted, so there is nothing to re-implement and nothing to migrate — which is why the calendar says a weekend where a rewrite quotes three years.
A keyed lookup on a 1,344,450-record customer master returns in 2 ms, against 3,665 ms to scan the same file end to end. Our SQL layer reads your keyed files through their own key indexes, so a lookup stays a lookup — no overnight export into a reporting copy that is already wrong by nine in the morning.
Same screens, same keystrokes, same F-keys, same month-end close. The programs stay yours, the files stay in their native format, and your people get retrained on nothing.
Half the license, hosting included, and a migration measured in days. Get the free compatibility report.