Why pricing matters more than you think

Per-seat pricing is a compliance risk. Not just a budget line.

When your compliance platform charges per user, compliance managers restrict access to keep costs down. The site supervisor does not get added. The subcontractor coordinator is not in the system. Evidence goes uncaptured and the audit finds the gaps that were always there. Vissibl charges per framework, not per head. Add everyone.

How per-seat pricing quietly breaks your compliance programme.

The licence is purchased for the compliance team. Six users, sometimes ten. The quality manager, the safety manager, two coordinators, the office manager and the operations director.

Six months later, the audit preparation begins and the evidence gaps appear. The pre-start records from site are incomplete because the site supervisor uses a paper form and somebody uploads it once a month if they remember. The training records for four new crew members are not in the system because the HR coordinator did not have a login. The subcontractor insurance certificates are in an email thread because the subcontractor coordinator was never added.

None of this happened because people did not care. It happened because the people closest to the evidence were not in the system. The compliance manager knew that adding the site supervisor meant another licence. The decision was made to keep the user count down. Evidence went uncaptured.

This is not a corner case. It is the standard outcome of per-seat pricing in operational businesses with distributed workforces.

What a 25-person team pays on the platforms most commonly compared to Vissibl.

Most compliance platforms charge between $40 and $80 USD per user per month. A 25-person team paying $60 per user is spending $18,000 per year — for one framework — before a single new hire joins.

SafetyCulture Premium
~$AU 7,200 per year
25 users, inspection tool only

ISO certification management is not included. Add the cost of whatever manages the certification layer on top.

Vissibl Full Platform
$12,000 per year
ISO 9001 + ISO 45001, unlimited users

Two frameworks, every user, every site. Add the site supervisor, the HR coordinator, the subcontractor coordinator. The price does not change.

The cost of adding the people closest to your evidence.

A construction business managing two ISO frameworks needs the following people in the system: quality manager, safety manager, two compliance coordinators, operations director, three site supervisors, two subcontractor coordinators, HR administrator, four project managers. That is 15 people.

When the business grows and adds two more site supervisors and another coordinator, that is 18 people.

Per-seat platform at $59 per user per month

18 users costs $12,744 per year. For one framework. Adding a second framework increases that. Adding each new hire increases it again. The business has a financial incentive to restrict access.

Vissibl — two frameworks

18 users managing two frameworks costs $12,000 per year regardless of headcount. When the new site supervisors join, nothing changes. When the project coordinator starts, nothing changes. No reason to leave anyone out.

The compliance programme that captures evidence from the people who are there.

The people closest to evidence in a construction or industrial operation are rarely the compliance team. They are the site supervisors who see the non-conformance. The subcontractor coordinators who receive the insurance certificate. The project managers who identify a document that needs to be updated.

A compliance programme that only lives in the compliance team's licences has a structural evidence gap. When Vissibl is deployed with unlimited users, non-conformances get raised at the point they are observed. Insurance certificates are captured by the person who receives them. Training records are entered by HR in real time. The audit preparation is not a scramble. The evidence is already there.

This is not a feature. It is the outcome of pricing correctly.

What is included and what it costs.

Full Platform
$500 per month
Billed annually — $6,000 per framework per year
  • ISO framework management
  • Vissi Audit continuous gap analysis
  • Document vault with version control
  • Training and competency records
  • Non-conformance and corrective action management
  • Unlimited users
  • Unlimited sites
  • No setup fee
Vendor Risk Management
$300 per month
Billed annually
  • Supplier risk scoring
  • Certificate and expiry tracking
  • Vissi Research AI due diligence
  • Automatic risk score updates
  • Available as add-on to Full Platform

Add everyone. The price does not change.

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