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Subscription plans

Zhibit.com offers some of the lowest subscription rates in the industry with no upfront setup fees, no cancellation fees, no hidden charges and no contract. With progressive plans that start as low as a few dollars a month, you will surely find a plan that fits your needs. The following is a summary of our current plans:

		Premium plan	Professional plan	Basic plan	Welcome plan
Rates
Zhibit.com offers some of the lowest subscription rates in the industry. Use your PayPal account or major credit card to pay monthly, or prepay for a year and save.	Subscription	$39/month $399/year (save $69/year)	$24/month $249/year (save $39/year)	$14/month $149/year (save $19/year)	$9/year
There is no upfront setup fee to get started with Zhibit.com.	Setup fee	$0	$0	$0	$0
We don't charge you for your work; only for ours. This means that Zhibit.com does not charge a commission when you sell your products or services, but instead only a flat fee for the service of putting them online.	Transaction fee	0%	0%	0%	0%
Website building and hosting
Different plans put different caps on the number of items that can be displayed at any given time. There is no limit on the number of uploads as long as the total number of items remains under the cap. You are always free to remove old items to make room for new ones.	Item catalog	1,000	500	100	10
Visitors of your website are typically presented with scaled down versions of your images to make them fit in a browser window. Some plans allow your visitors to zoom in and view the full size, high resolution images.	High resolution images
While no method can fully guarantee that your images will not be copied or duplicated, Zhibit.com employs various technical means to protect your copyright in the work you upload to the site.	Copyright protection
Free form pages are used to display information that doesn't fit in any of the structured pages of your website. The limit put by the plan is on the total number of free form pages that you can display at any given time. You may freely remove old pages to make room for new ones.	Free form pages	100	50	10	3
When you connect a privately owned domain name to Zhibit.com you designate our systems to serve all requests to it. When visitors navigate their browser to your domain, our servers will respond while obscuring our domain name from the browser's address bar. Domain names must be registered separately and additional costs may be involved.	Domain name aliasing
Link your third-party site analytics account with Zhibit.com to analyze how visitors interact with your website.	Site analytics
Link your Google AdSense for Content account to display online ads on your website and earn a share of the revenue they generate. This feature is currently in beta and is subject to change at any time.	Ad timeshare (beta)	100%	70%	50%
Zhibit.com employs several techniques intended to reduce the chance that spammers will get a hold of your personal information or graffiti your website. Some of these techniques, such as the CAPTCHA, are visible, while others operate behind the scenes.	Anti-spam measures
E-commerce
Link your PayPal business account with Zhibit.com and allow your visitors to buy your products and services directly off your website.	Online sales with PayPal	Unlimited	$1,500/item
A shopping cart allows buyers to aggregate multiple items into a single order and to commit one large purchase. Without a shopping cart, buyers must instead purchase each item separately.	Shopping cart
Zhibit.com's price formulas give you finer control over the pricing of your items by letting you break them into features and price each individually based on the buyer's choice. Price formulas also group similar items together so that a price change is reflected in all associated items at the same time.	Complex pricing
Manage the inventory of items you place for sale on Zhibit.com, from a one of a kind item to unlimited, reproducible items. The inventroy of items that sell is automatically updated and any items that sell out are automatically taken off sale.	Inventory management
Community
All subscription plans include a guestbook where visitors can sign up to receive automatic emails periodically whenever your site is updated.	Guestbook with newsletter
Bulletins let you send out email messages to your guests with the content of your choosing at any time (frequency limitations apply).	Guest bulletins
Blogs are the web's version of diaries and are best to express thoughts or to publicize topics that you care about. The limit put by the plan is on the total number of blog entries that you can display at any given time. You may freely remove old entries to make room for new ones.	Blog entries	1,000	500	100
Social bookmarking is a method for storing, organizing, searching, managing and sharing bookmarks of web pages. All websites hosted on Zhibit.com integrate with the major bookmark sharing services such as Digg and del.icio.us to facilitate the saving, tagging and sharing of your web pages.	Social bookmark sharing
Comments are very useful for collecting short, on-the-go feedback from visitors who often don't wish to send a complete message by email. Collect feedback from your visitors in the form of comments on your products or services, blog or guestbook.	Comments and feedback
Marketing
Zhibit.com's directory is a sure way to increase the visibility of your website and to help visitors find your products and services. The directory lists all member websites cross sectioned by geography or categories and makes your products and services searchable through Zhibit.com's site search.	Directory listing
When you publish your website on Zhibit.com we automatically submit its sitemap to all the major search engines to get it crawled and indexed as soon as possible.	Search engine listing
All websites hosted on Zhibit.com are periodically crawled by the major search engines. Zhibit.com employs extensive search engine optimization (SEO) techniques to improve the ranking of your website and increase the chances that it will be discovered by people searching for products or services.	Search engine optimization
Crawl priority increases the priority and frequency of the crawl of your content and allows you to choose keywords to be associated with your website. Crawl priority does not affect the ranking of your content in search results.	Crawl priority
Technology
Whether your site is visited by one or one hundred people a day, unlimited data transfer is included with all subscription plans.	Data transfer	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Zhibit.com's network is connected to the world's largest backbone providers ensuring responsive and reliable connectivity regardless of where your audience resides.	Ultra high speed network
Zhibit.com is backed up daily in case of unforseen major problems. That being said, accounts cannot be restored on an individual basis and you are advised to back up your own data.	Daily backups

Evaluation period

Zhibit.com provides a free trial period commencing at the time your subscription is initiated. While your website is not visible to the public during this trial period, it is fully functional and you are able to custom build it in any fashion you want. Any data you upload to the site and any customizations you apply to it are preserved and will remain in effect once you activate your account. The trial period is our way of giving you time to try the service out risk-free. It is meant for you, not for us. Your website will become visible the second you activate your account and indication of payment has been received from PayPal.

Zhibit.com is committed to providing our subscribers with quality content. We are therefore unable to offer free and unaccountable subscriptions. Considering we do not employ ads, engage in marketing programs or charge transaction fees, we think Zhibit.com's rates are very competitive and offer a great value.

Rate guarantee

Zhibit.com may, from time to time, modify or discontinue subscription plans. You are however guaranteed that your rate will never increase as long as you stay on a particular plan. Your rate is guaranteed even if the plan is discontinued. Nevertheless, if you switch from a discontinued plan, you may not be able to switch back to it.

Refund policy

Due to the automated nature of the subscription process, Zhibit LLC cannot generally provide refunds for unused portions of subscription periods. We do however prorate any unused time when you switch between subscription plans so that you always get the time you've paid for. Please be aware of this policy when choosing a long-term plan.

If you believe your situation warrants special consideration please contact us and explain your reasons. In justified cases we will issue you a prorated refund within no more than 2 weeks of your request.