We love using retool for our internal dashboards and process automations. We upgraded to the 'Team' plan to get a staging environment, and to enable end users (our internal team members that use the dashboards we create).
It's sort of odd that the end-users can still technically edit the app, and we're only not charged for them as long as they don't hit the 'Edit' button. Meaning that the 5 "end users" are no different than free versions users – and the 'Team' plan is essentially identical to the free offering aside from the staging environment and the option for > 5 users. I plan to keep 5 users for the time being – so it seems pointless to pay $300-400 /year for a staging environment.
Would be great if we could have the Team plan included setting user permissions. We'd gladly pay for that to improve the UX for our internal team, and potential additional internal users. Otherwise there's not much benefit at all to the Team plan, and the business plan is a pretty big jump in pricing.
I have a little trick I use for one of my clients that also only wants the team plan, but doesn't want everyone to be able to edit the app.
Add this to the URL you give them, or to your query params if you have a menu: ?_embed=true
That will remove the top bar that has the Edit button. Doesn't stop anyone from removing that from the command string to re-enable the Edit button, but keeps them from accidentally doing it.
Apologies to OP for reviving this old thread, but find myself and our team in a very similar position.
We don't need many of the Business features, we didn't even get to a point that we needed more environments... living life dangerously in PRD
No need for audit logs for us and no need for many other features of Business. So it very much feels now we're overpaying.
Got my manager about to pull the plug as he's feeling that things are getting too expensive too quickly and we can't keep control over it.
If Retool cares about small businesses, the jump shouldn't be that drastic, so definitely a +1 for user permissions and attributes in the Team plan. Might take a hit in revenue, but would definitely help attract and specially retain people.
I hear you, @the_irav, and have surfaced your feedback internally. We certainly want to keep you developing with Retool, if possible, so thanks for speaking up.
While we aren't currently planning any relevant changes, your comments - along with any others that we've heard on the matter - have all been documented and will be an important part of the decision-making process whenever we revisit the scoping of plan features down the line.
This is probably the biggest limitation I've faced in retool, but it doesn't seem like anything is changing soon. Hence, we're working on a migration plan.
