Cheat sheet: Build or subscribe
The 28 terms of this lesson, part by part, with the French word a team in France would use.
1. Many organisations need the same thing
- Ready-made servicesolution clé en main, SaaS
- an online tool you subscribe to instead of building one, such as a booking tool or a form service.
- Custom builddéveloppement sur mesure
- a site or a tool written specially for one organisation, which pays to build it and then to maintain it.
- Subscriptionabonnement
- a fixed price paid every month or every year to use a service.
- Commissioncommission
- the share of each sale or booking that a platform keeps, such as the share Booking.com takes from a hotel.
- HelloAssoHelloAsso
- a French service that handles memberships, ticketing and donations for associations, free of charge.
- Maintenancemaintenance
- the regular work that keeps a site working after launch, such as updates, fixes and renewals.
2. Build only what makes you different
- Core businesscœur de métier
- the work that makes an organisation different from others, and that its customers choose it for.
- Channel managerchannel manager
- a tool that keeps a hotel's free rooms the same on its own site and on Booking.com, so no room is sold twice.
- Commissioncommission
- the share of each sale or booking that a platform keeps, such as the share Booking.com takes from a hotel.
- MVPproduit minimum viable
- a minimum viable product, the smallest version that is already useful to its visitors.
- Ready-made servicesolution clé en main, SaaS
- an online tool you subscribe to instead of building one, such as a booking tool or a form service.
- Custom builddéveloppement sur mesure
- a site or a tool written specially for one organisation, which pays to build it and then to maintain it.
3. Compare the two routes honestly
- Data exportexport des données
- a copy of your data that a service lets you download, so you can move it to another tool.
- Lock-indépendance au fournisseur
- the situation where leaving a tool is hard, because your site and data only work inside it.
- Subscriptionabonnement
- a fixed price paid every month or every year to use a service.
- Maintenancemaintenance
- the regular work that keeps a site working after launch, such as updates, fixes and renewals.
- Terms of serviceconditions d'utilisation
- the rules a service sets for its use, including its limits and prices, which it can change.
4. The one thing the platform can't do
- Platformplateforme
- a ready-made online service where many organisations run their site or shop, such as Shopify or HelloAsso.
- Add-onmodule complémentaire
- an extra feature that you install on a platform, such as a Shopify app, often for a monthly fee.
- ShopifyShopify
- an online service that rents you a ready-made shop, with payments, stock and delivery, for a monthly fee.
- Configuratorconfigurateur
- a tool on a shop's site where customers choose the parts of a product and see the price change.
- No-showno-show, absence
- a customer who books and doesn't come, without cancelling.
- Card guaranteeempreinte bancaire
- card details taken at booking, so that the business can charge a fee if the customer doesn't come.
5. What to ask
- Ready-made servicesolution clé en main, SaaS
- an online tool you subscribe to instead of building one, such as a booking tool or a form service.
- Custom builddéveloppement sur mesure
- a site or a tool written specially for one organisation, which pays to build it and then to maintain it.
- Add-onmodule complémentaire
- an extra feature that you install on a platform, such as a Shopify app, often for a monthly fee.
- Data exportexport des données
- a copy of your data that a service lets you download, so you can move it to another tool.
- Maintenancemaintenance
- the regular work that keeps a site working after launch, such as updates, fixes and renewals.
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