My non-profit foundation has made a Shopify App that saves us 3 days a week of one human inputting data. We currently license the software to other non-profits for $1000 setup (we use staff time to walk them through it) and $50 a month licensing.

A private company in the non-profit space that we have a good relationship with wants to buy the software and integrate it into their offerings. We have no idea how to price it - thoughts?

Background: - Cost us about $10,000 of a developer's time - We currently have 6 customers just through word of mouth and are not actively selling in any way -the company would deploy it for their offerings to hundreds of customers and it ties into software that is used in 80% of all major fundraising organizations in N. America - they could likely duplicate it themselves - but the testing side was extensive

Looking for advice on how to price it. Selling it fits one of our key strategies to be a leader in the non-profit space.

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Organizations and causes require people who work full time to help organize the charitable work. It is very difficult to find people to volunteer at this level and typically if you do, they are independently wealthy. Retired people can do more but typically they do not want to give that much time and have other things they want to do.

4 hrs a week which is a typical volunteer shift at our hospital does not lend itself to pulling all the details together.

Good people deserve to get paid to do good work. Just like in tech, you get what you pay for. And typically a nonprofit worker puts extra hours and time in as does their family members in support of the cause.