Buy mailboxes once instead of renting seats again

Procurement will ask why this sits outside the usual subscription line. The answer is that LocalSMTP is sold as a lifetime tier sized by mailbox count, not as a recurring per-seat charge, so the decision is a single purchase your finance team can close rather than an annual review item.

Your goal is to own the mailboxes and stop the renewal cycle. That means matching the tier to the number of mailboxes your team actually needs, not to a headcount forecast that grows every quarter, and checking which supporting services are included before you sign anything.

The product supplies standard SMTP and IMAP mailboxes with browser webmail included, plus warm-up and authentication checks. What it does not do is guarantee where your messages land, so plan the buying conversation around mailboxes you control rather than around delivery outcomes you cannot promise.

Moving up the tier list adds mailboxes, and the published ladder runs Starter with 5, Studio with 15 and Floor with 50. For an enterprise team the practical question is how many separate mailboxes your people or functions need to sign into, because that count is what separates one tier from the next.

Each tier keeps the same shape: standard SMTP and IMAP mailboxes, browser webmail for the people who use them, and the warm-up and authentication checks that sit alongside setup. What changes is the number of mailboxes you can open, which is the only dimension the tiers are sized on.

Larger tiers matter when several parts of the company need their own mailbox rather than a shared login. They do not add contacts, sending permission or a delivery promise, so size the tier on mailbox count and read the table for anything outside it that is priced separately.

Per-seat pricing that grows every quarter is the objection you will hear most, and the lifetime tier structure is the direct answer to it. The purchase is sized once by mailbox count, so you are not exposed to a rate that rises as your team adds people later in the year.

The second hesitation is control. Because you own standard SMTP and IMAP mailboxes with browser webmail included, your team can sign in and configure them without waiting on a vendor seat allocation, which matters when procurement wants a clean handover to an internal owner.

The third is expectation. LocalSMTP runs warm-up and authentication checks, but inbox placement is not guaranteed, and a mailbox is not a contact list. Say this plainly to your stakeholders so nobody buys on the assumption that delivery or recipient data comes bundled with the tier.

Set Studio beside Floor and the difference is mailbox count: 15 against 50. If your team can work within 15 separate mailboxes, Studio covers the same standard SMTP and IMAP setup, browser webmail and warm-up and authentication checks as the larger tier, so the choice turns on how many logins you genuinely need.

Floor suits a larger company where several functions each want their own mailbox rather than a shared one. The trade is scale of mailboxes, not a different feature set, so do not expect Floor to include extra services that sit outside the tiers and are priced separately.

A simple way to decide is to list the mailboxes your team would open in the first month and add a margin for roles you know are coming. Compare that number with 15 and 50, then confirm from the published table on softwareprogrammer.app which extras carry their own price.