Price model

Hey Dave,

Thanks for getting in touch and great to hear you are considering Beaver Builder. Apologies that our demo appears clunky. I am assuming since we are conversing in here, you’ve had a chance to download and test out our free version in your environment?

Support is actually one of our main concerns with Beaver Builder! We try to offer support second to none in terms of turnaround time, technical assistance, and even general CSS tweaks if needed above and beyond what our product offers out of the box!

Our pricing allows us to offer stellar support and to continue on with our aggressive roadmap. Feel free to check out our changelog and public roadmap if interested there.

In terms of features between free and premium, our premium versions contain all of our modules whereas the free version only has the bare bones needed to create a good looking basic site. Another really handy feature is our templating functionality. The premium versions contain a wide range of pre-designed page templates and the ability to save your own.

Anyway, hope that helps a bit, but feel free to get in touch with us via hello[at]wpbeaverbuilder[dot]com and we would be happy to continue the discussion if you like!

Best,
Billy

Fair enough. Just because I think the pricing is exorbitant doesn’t mean it is.

However…I tried the demo again and ran into an issue that logically should not happen.

I wanted to change the navigation menu labels. The builder asked if I was sure about leaving the page, I confirmed, got into the Dashboard and made my changes.

At the top of the Dashboard I clicked on “Beaver Builder” > “Visit site.” Nothing.

I go back to the Dashboard. Nothing.

How in the world do I invoke the builder again??? I’ve been using WP for almost 10 years, and still went through every Dashboard menu link looking for something to invoke the builder.

Still logged in? Yup. Still on the same demo? Yup. Refreshed the page? Yup still nothing.

Heck, I even logged out and logged back in. Nothing.

I assumed like in Live Composer there would be a bright orange button on the front-end screaming, “Activate Editor!”

So frustrated I was, just closed the whole thing. Once more I was left wondering, how is this a $200 product if I get stuck just changing the menu labels to upper case?

### UPDATE

So I got back in, likely cookies allowed me to continue on after creating another demo.

I can’t seem to modify anything in the header, specifically placement of the logo and navigation menu – I wanted to move the logo above and center the nav below. Apparently the builder cannot affect any header elements. Is this correct?

I thought this was caused by the Blank template however none of the templates allowed me to modify the header. Very odd for a ‘page builder.’

Hey Dave,

Good to hear back. Re. The header and menu, those are functions of the theme. In this case, our theme, which can be modified via the native customizer. The page builder itself only allows you to edit within the content area or area in between the header/footer. We do offer a headerless/footerless page template as part of our theme which does allow you to solely use the page builder if you like. That has to be set in the actual page editor via the dashboard. Hope that helps and let us know if we can assist further!

Best,
Billy