Trials are gone, Elf-ferrals are back!

Trials are gone

Further to the original announcement, it quickly became clear that the 7-day trials were more trouble than they were worth. A trial period prevented users from using their ElfBuckz as part-payment on a subscription, as well as "bundle-hopping" between different subscriptions.

Trials also represented an abuse risk - Wordpress doesn't have a way to prevent a user from trialing, cancelling, and re-trialing to continuously extend a trial indefinitely.

So, no more trials. Instead, we'll offer a 14-day refund based on a conversation - if a user is unhappy with the service, and we can't make them happy, we'll refund the unused portion of their subscription, within the first 14 days.

Oh, and the other issue with trials was that they made the referral process exploitable, so...

Referrals are back!

With the transition to monthly billing, and the removal of trials, it's now safe to re-instate the Elf-erral program!

Here's the deal - every user you refer with your unique referral code gets $5 off their first order, and you get a $5-off coupon! ($10 free ElfBuckz, reborn!)

Storage mounts are free

Everything in the store now falls into one of the 5 product tiers, and I couldn't work out where storage mounts fitted in.

Rather than overcomplicate the product tiers, all storage mounts are now free, with an initial $9 setup fee (both to cover support and to deter abuse).

If you're migrating from an older subscription to a monthly one, drop us a note, we'll refund the setup fee for your storage mounts.

And there's more...

TorBox mounts added

Speaking of storage, there's a RealDebrid service degradation going on currently, and we've just added a new product to mount your TorBox storage to /storage/torbox. We're also now listed on the TorBox integrations page!

Merch werks

On a roll with the store, we figured out how to make the merch work. I've ordered myself a pair of socks and some stickers to test, and it's all working (they're in the mail). We chose Printify as the print-on-demand provider - they have a reputation for quality and reliability, but their shipping rates can be a bit shocking - they seems to vary from product to product, and country to country.

ElfTerm has arrived

Tired of the weird FileBrowser "console"? Check out ElfTerm, which provides access to ElfBot, and to Kubernetes, in a beautiful and geeky CLI!

plex-debrid is un-broked

Plex-debrid's Trakt integration has been broken for a while - it seems as if the original project's Trakt oauth credentials have expired, so we updated our fork to allow passing of credentials to the process in environment variables.

The takeaway here, is plex-debrid is working now!

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