@BFBoston, I couldn’t agree with you more on the lack of transparency on the minimum user requirements for paid plans. I mentioned on another thread (Upcoming Updates to Asana's Product Tiers - #4 by Sophiaa) about this and how it wastes people’s time as they are unaware of the actual costs required after their free trial, and I suggested other wording that would be more accurate:
For example it would be better to say, the “Starter” plan is $21.98 for a minimum of 2 users/per month billed annually, with additional users costing an extra $10.99 per user/per month billed annually.
Your suggestion of using the asterisk is even better though, as it’s more succinct.
The fact Asana doesn’t bother to implement some kind of clarification alongside the prices leads me to assume they either don’t care or are misleading people on purpose. Not sure what jurisdiction Asana operates under but I don’t think this is in line with the advertising code of conduct for businesses in my country. In the UK details to fully understand the actual price of a service must be clear on the page where you state the prices, and linked by a * or ^ etc if it’s explained elsewhere on the page like in the footer.
Oh and to answer your question, I’m a solo user who needs the features of the old Premium and portfolios (only available in the old Business plan). But there is no way I could justify paying for 2 users for a single Business feature.
For solo users who want paid features, Asana is hugely overpriced compared to competitors that offer true single-user paid plans. So I don’t currently use Asana, but watch with interest to see if they’ll ever shift on their single-user plan perspective, as I would pay for old Business (now called Advanced?) but only if I could pay for just one user. Or as I’ve seen suggested allow Starter users to choose one feature from Advanced (I’d rather have portfolios than Asana Intelligence).