Coda's New Pricing & Comments on Transparency

Hello Coda,

For me as a solo developer/user of Coda the new pricing scheme really sucks! Such a shame for in principle such a good product. I run my total business on Coda: sales lead tracking, CRM, to do lists, invoicing, tax administration, costs and revenue, banking statements. So in total much more then 1000 rows.

Also the Pro and Team editions with it’s editors is totally useless for me in Europa, where I live and run my small business.
I can not invite editors because most of my business contacts are on Exchange or IMAP email.
The email-adress is a privacy sensitive item and so the handling must be compliant to the European General Data Protection Regulations. As far as I can see CODA is not really GDPR compliant. Heavy fines (for me or Coda?) when there is a security breach and email adresses of my Coda editors are exposed.

Furthermore I am, after a lot of mistakes, now used to the USA way of editing/selecting dates and amounts. I don’t make mistakes anymore. But my incidental editors will certainly make mistakes when selecting Sunday instead of Monday in the data-widget or entering amounts with the dot and the comma on the wrong place.

And lastly those incidental editors can also accidentally or on purpose screw up my documents. How to restore that document when more editors are using that doc?

In my view Coda is not ready for most of the mainland European enterprises.

I always had the hope that my own experience with Coda could be used to help (paid) other small Dutch companies with a Coda document/app. And of course then a reasonable license for CODA makes perfect sense.

Hopefully the pricing scheme, the internationalization of dates and amounts, GPDR and a robust backup and restore are fixed soon. Then I will consider the Pro.

Regards
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