The other 300, 500, 1,000 pages a month pay their income!Ĭase CATalyst student software is $495 and has a 100% guarantee upgrade to full software when the student is ready to go to work.
A court reporter may have a monthly payment of say $150 for their CAT software, which means that the first fifty pages of the month covers their payment. Their productivity, i.e., how many pages of transcript they can produce in a given month with CAT software is a multiple of as least ten over traditional methods of word processing or dictation. However, the benefits of CAT software are so huge for court reporters that they can easily justify the cost. Consequently each buyer has to pay for a bigger piece of the cost of software development. The revenue part of the equation is that the total number of prospective buyers for CAT software like Case CATalyst is in the low thousands rather than the millions who buy MS word. The facts behind these prices lie in the cost of developing complex software like Case CATalyst which is actually more complex than something like MS Word, for example. (Judy Wolf - Marketing Product Manager ) When I tell anyone outside the court reporting industry about the cost of CAT software, their usual response is “It costs that much? You’re kidding!” They are astounded to learn that professional CAT software costs as much as $4,000! It’s completely understandable that students are equally surprised to learn that the student version price is $495 even though that is only 12% of the price of the professional version.
Why does CAT software cost what it costs, which many students/reporters say is too much? 1 - Cost concerns are always at the top of the question list for students.
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