We’ve been busy with a lot of behind-the-scenes work for Quail this month, but I do have a few updates that we thought were worth writing about. The biggest change, of course, is that we’re raising the monthly fee for Quail – something we haven’t done since we launched in 2014.

Price Change

What you pay for Quail will still be based on the number of vendors in your store, but the price for each tier will change slightly:

• $40 / month for up to 30 vendors (was $35 / month)
• $70 / month for up to 60 vendors (was $60 / month)
• $135 / month for unlimited vendors (was $120 / month)

While we’re changing those prices for new stores starting today, we’re keeping the old prices for existing stores through the rest of 2022 – so if you signed up for Quail before October 1 2022 what you pay won’t go up until January of 2023.

Referrals

A little bit of inside-baseball: we don’t do any advertising of Quail, partly because it doesn’t work well but mostly just because the two of us just…don’t like ads in things.

Over the years, when we ask how people found out about Quail the overwhelming answer has been that a vendor in their store – or a friend who’s a vendor in a different store – has used Quail as a vendor or as a clerk, and has passed on the recommendation. We really, really appreciate folks who do that, and to show that appreciation we launched a referral program in September. Sign in to Quail Referrals to get your personal referral code; when stores sign up with your code they’ll get a discount on their first year of Quail – and we’ll pay you up to $120 for each referral.

Unlike most of our updates, we did write a little bit about the referral program elsewhere on the blog.

Bulk Emails

Lots of folks have asked for this: we’ve added a way to send mass emails to all your vendors from inside Quail. In the Vendors page there’s now a button in the top-right labeled “Email Vendors”; click it, compose your message, and we’ll send it to all your vendors:

That’s all that’s worth talking about from September; we’ll see how much we can get done in October!

Until next time,

– Trevor & Chris