Choosing a platform you can resell under your own name

When you sell under your own name, the number you watch is not a monthly fee. It is how many separate apps your tier lets you put in front of clients before you need another slot. That count decides how many deals you can carry at once, and it is the figure to weigh against any competitor.

Software Programmer counts its lifetime in apps, so one tier covers one finished build and the next covers more. Nothing in that count is a period of access. A reseller who signs three clients in a quarter feels the difference immediately, because each client build needs its own room.

Read the published tiers directly before you quote anything to a client. Prices sit in the publisher's own table and change independently of this page. What stays constant is the shape of the offer: you buy finished apps, you sell the outcome, and the login stays out of the client's hands.

At every level the work is the same in kind. You write down what the app has to do, and a working app comes back with data, logins and payments already in place. The difference between tiers is only how many of those finished builds you are entitled to across the lifetime of the purchase.

The single-app tier suits a partner testing one client deal before committing to a book of them. The three-app tier covers a small roster. The ten-app tier is where a reseller with a steady pipeline of deals starts to feel comfortable, because slots stay available for the next client rather than running out mid-quarter.

Your own brand sits on top of all of it. The store where every deal you run is sold carries the transaction, so your client sees your name and your terms. That is the arrangement a white-label partner needs, and it is the one thing a licence that forbids client use can never offer you.

Most resellers arrive at this comparison with a single worry underneath it: whether the licence lets a client actually use what you sell them. If the terms restrict use to you alone, the app is a demo, not a product, and your business model collapses at the first invoice.

So the question to ask is not which platform builds the nicest app. It is which platform lets you pass the finished thing to a paying client under your own name, without a clause that turns the sale into a breach. Ask that before you ask about features, and the shortlist gets shorter quickly.

Software Programmer answers that question by selling you the app outright rather than renting you access to a builder. You own the tool and resell the outcome, which is the distinction the buyer's own goal describes. Check the store's rules for your own case, because those rules still apply to what you buy.

Moving up a tier buys capacity, not capability. You get more finished apps to place with clients, which means you can take on the next deal without waiting for a slot to free up. The build process itself does not change as you climb, and neither does the shape of what ships.

For a partner running a pipeline, capacity is the whole game. A slot that is already spoken for cannot serve a new client, and a reseller who has to decline work because the tier is full has lost the deal to a competitor. The higher tiers exist to keep that from happening.

Price the upgrade against the deals you expect, not against the features you imagine. Compare the published tier figures with the number of client builds in your own pipeline, then decide whether the extra slots earn their place. Keep the store rules in view throughout, since they apply at every level.