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This page is what OTHER people charge for a stitch file: a digitizer by hand, desktop software, and the browser tools. A person digitizing one logo by hand charges $10–85 and takes a day or two – often longer. Ours is at the bottom, and it is not in the same league. Every number has the day it was read off their own page.
CitrusTechniqueFlatSize50 mmStitches3 954Threads3Thread11.5 mA digitizer charges for an hour of their own work, so the price follows how hard the logo is. Desktop software charges once for a tool you keep for years. A browser tool charges a month at a time whether you use it or not. None of them is dearer than the others in the abstract – it depends entirely on how many marks you make in a year.
Work out your files per month, not your price per file. At one file a year, anything with a subscription is bad value and a single paid file wins. At twenty a month, a subscription is cheaper than a person by an order of magnitude. At five hundred a month, the price per file falls to pennies and the only question left is whether the files are good enough to send without checking.
The hidden cost is the second round. If the file comes back and the lettering has closed up, somebody has to look at it, say so, wait, and try again – and that is a day, not a price. It is also why one browser tool sells a person on top of its own automatic at $19.99 a file: they are charging for the round that the automatic did not finish.
A person charges roughly $10–85 per logo and takes a day or two. Browser tools run $9–39 a month. Desktop software that can digitize an illustration starts around $3,995 for a licence you keep. Here, Studio’s first month is $9 for 20 files, then $29 a month – or from $0.40 a file on a yearly plan.
Because they are not the same product. An hour of a person’s work scales with how hard the logo is; a subscription does not scale at all; a licence is bought once. The only fair comparison is cost per file at the number of files you actually make.
Not automatically – but ask what happens if it comes back wrong. The real cost of a stitch file is the second round, not the first, and a price that does not say who fixes it is not a whole price.
Ours: Studio’s first month is $9 for 20 files, then $29 a month – cancel any time. On a yearly plan a file is from $0.40. The whole mark is worked out on screen at the size you asked for before you pay, so a file you do not want costs nothing.
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