When selling a product or service online, a pricing plan is a not
simply a portal the user has to click through to purchase their item. It
allows you, as the merchant, do drive you’re deal home, and provide
alternative deals that will secure you further purchases.
It follows then, that the pricing plan’s on your website shouldn’t be
neglected, and should offer the most important information to the
end-user, in an intuitive easy-to-use way. Below are 40 fantastic
examples of pricing tables / plans that show how successful companies
are engaging their users in their pricing plans, from simple tables, to
feature lists, to make your own plan tools.
Each example briefly examines the pricing plan, so you can see for yourself what it is doing.
One Hub
Onehub goes with a common column layout with a highlighted column displaying their most popular plan.
Squarespace
Squarespace makes use of simple, yet bold icons, alongside beautiful
typography to create a beautiful column style pricing table.
Bigcartel
Big cartel uses simplicity and elegance to get its pricing plans
across, as well as subtly highlighting what the free plan misses out.
Shopify
Shopify uses a bold approach with a staggered gradient of color from
green to blue to show the progression of their plans. Simple ticks are
used to show the features of each plan.
Formstack
Formstack puts emphasis on its popular plan by giving it bright colours compared to its sister grey plans.
Notable
Notable uses a very simple and easy to read table, with a larger button, and wide stroke around their popular plan.
Mailchimp
Due to Mailchimps way of pricing, their tables appear in different formats, split into different sections.
Live Stream
Livestream keep their pricing table relatively clean, with more information available upon hovering over sections.
Wuffo
Wuffo uses its playful font and bright colours to attract you into their pricing table.
CrazyEgg
Like others, CrazyEgg focuses on their popular plan with the use of colour compared to grey columns.
Highrise
Highrise uses a simple and easy to read table, with a larger button, and wide stroke around their popular plan.
PulseApp
PulseApp uses three simple columns with very little visual graphics to emphasis the sign up buttons.
LighCMS
LightCMS has an absolutely stunning pricing table which hits you with
its bright gradient of colour, but beautiful simplicity. The table is
left uncluttered with common features between the plans all listed
below.
Cobblestone
Cobblestone differs from some other pricing tables in highlighting
its popular plan with a dark blue again grey, compared to bright colours
against the light grey.
Backboard
Backboard draws its users in by highlighting plans with a 14day free trial, and driving home pricing after this.
Invoice Machine
Invoice Machine keeps to simplicity by using a simple table, and ticks to show exactly what features each plan comes with.
PlanHQ
PlanHQ’s simple table gets across simple information on the products information, and puts emphasis on the sign up buttons.
Concept Share
Like others, Concept Share puts it’s emphasis in colour on the free
trial plan, to attract users into the features of the program by using
it rather than tabling all the features.
Mediatemple
Mediatemple opts for less of a table approach, and more of a box approach showing three of their plans, with learn more buttons.
Mailer Mailer
Mailer Mailer emphasises its preferred plan with a “Best plan” ribbon, and a contrasting coloured button.
Litmus
Litmus uses a progression of images to emphasis where the quality is
in their pricing plan with a gradual increase in screens in the heading
images from left to right.
Sipgate
Sipgate emphasises its free plan with a different colour to the premium add-ons.
Yootheme
Yootheme emphasises the gold plan by using gold colours as well as brown in its larger centred popular plan box.
The Resumator
The Resumator puts emphasis on its sign-up buttons, with its featured
plan receiving a border, and different coloured button for emphasis.
Poll Everywhere
Poll Everywhere uses a feature table with prominent sign up buttons to showcase it’s different poll plans.
Box
Box.net uses takes use of white and blue beautifully in its pricing
table, subtly highlighting their popular plan by raising it above the
rest ever so slightly.
Clicktale
Clicktale takes a different approach than other sits by ordering its
most expensive plan far left, and the cheapest far right; a complete
contrast to the normal.
Usabilla
Usabilla goes with a simple table with two bright colours, green and orange highlighting the price, and the sign up button.
Cannybill
CannyBill has opted to make user interaction more noticeable, with table columns zooming on mouse over.
NewsGroupDirect
This site opts to feature its most expensive plan on the left, highlighted with a bright green to instantly attract the eye.
Typekit
Typekit opts to make its popular plan stand out by subtly increasing the size of everything in the column.
Podcast people
Podcast people follows in shopify’s footsteps by using the gradient of columns from green to blue.
Vflyer
The downward arrows used by vFlyer help to draw the user’s eye down
the page to the features, and beyond to the sign up buttons. Simple but
effective.
PandaStream
Due to panda’s business model, they have to opt for custom pricing
decided by the user. Their easy to use drag bar is
beautifully implemented.
Groupsite
Groupsite uses the bright contrast of red and dark blue to attract your eyes through their pro pricing plan.
Browser Mob
Similarly to Panda, Browser Mob is more of a custom pricing plan, so
with so many to offer, they’ve made it easier to choose, by allowing the
user to input what they need, and the result showing their most suited
plan.
Glasscubes
Glasscubes makes sure emphasis is strong on signing up, offering you
the opportunity to do so at the bottom, and top of each pricing column.
Their buttons aren’t too bright, so you don’t feel pushed into it.
Hellothemes
Hellothemes subtly draws focus to its featured plan with a heightened
column, and beautifully done left and right shadow that add’s a bit of
depth.
Varto
Varto opts for a vertical pricing table for its 3 pricing plans that render beautifully with some great imagery.
Further Discussion
This is simply a list of websites that I’ve come across, with
impressive pricing tables in lets say, the last month. I’m certain there
are plenty more fantastic examples out there, so if you know of some,
don’t hesitate to discuss them below!
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