Plans can be paid for in pounds or euros
A master can now choose a plan on the Wegcoin Bazaar and pay by card, or by SEPA direct debit in euros: £2, £4 or £12 per endpoint a month, or €2.50, €5 or €14. Billing is monthly on the 1st for the machines that checked in, and the first month is charged for the days left. A plan's included Wegcoins are spent first and expire at the end of their month; Wegcoins you buy don't. Macs get Time Machine in backup health and a weekly Lynis audit, and a fleet of thousands opens folded by client.
Since today a master can put their tenant on a plan from the Wegcoin Bazaar and pay for it there, by card or, in euros, by SEPA direct debit. Until now a plan was something we set up with you by hand, and nothing on the page could take the payment.
| Plan | Per endpoint, per month | Included |
|---|---|---|
| Bring your own key | £2 or €2.50 | no Wegcoins, you pay your AI provider |
| Standard | £4 or €5 | 90 Wegcoins per endpoint |
| Continuous | £12 or €14 | 400 Wegcoins per endpoint |
Prices are net. A UK business pays VAT on top; an EU business that gives a valid VAT number pays none under the reverse charge. Stripe raises the invoice and takes the payment, and Wegweiser doesn't see a card or account number.
How it works
Open Wegcoins, then Your plan, and press Choose this plan on the one you want. The prices are shown in euros when your page is in German and in pounds otherwise; the link under the plans switches between them.
Checkout opens on Stripe, and the plan shows on the page as soon as Stripe confirms the first payment. A bank debit can take a few days.
You're billed in advance on the 1st of each month, for the machines that checked in within the last 45 days. A machine you decommissioned stops being counted, and there's no licence count to keep in step. The first month is charged for the days left until the 1st, and the Wegcoins it includes are scaled the same way.
The count is ours. Wegweiser updates it every night, so the invoice on the 1st covers the machines it counted the day before.
Manage billing opens Stripe's own page for your invoices, your card or bank details, your billing address and VAT number, and cancelling, which takes effect at the end of the month you've paid for.
Switching to another plan is a button on the Bazaar, and the new price and allowance start with the next month: this month was invoiced, and its Wegcoins granted, on the 1st.
Only a master can choose, change or cancel a plan. Everybody else sees the plans and a note saying so.
If a payment fails, Stripe tries again over the following days, and the Bazaar says so. A plan that's still unpaid after the last retry gets no new month and no included Wegcoins until the invoice is paid.
Included Wegcoins are for their month
Until today a plan's included Wegcoins rolled over without end, and unused ones piled up from month to month. Now they're good for the month they come with:
- Your spending counts against the month's allowance first.
- What's left of the allowance when the month ends expires, and the Bazaar's statement shows how many.
- Wegcoins you bought don't expire, and an expiry takes no more than what's left of that month's allowance.
The 1,000 Wegcoins every account starts with aren't an allowance, and they don't expire either.
Wegcoin packs stay in pounds. Buying one now raises a VAT invoice as well as a receipt, the card statement reads "OLDFORGE* WEGWEISER", and the Wegcoins are credited once the payment has gone through.
Also today
Backup health reads Time Machine
A Mac's backups had no check. Backup health now reads Time Machine on Macs: each destination, the last attempt and the last success, the backups on the disk, and what it was told to skip. A skipped home folder caps the score at 40 and is marked in the table; an unencrypted backup disk is flagged to watch. No agent update is needed.
Lynis audits Macs
The weekly Security Audit now runs on Macs as it does on Linux, and Mac Security Posture reads three more things: automatic login, the guest account, and how old XProtect's malware definitions are.
A fleet of thousands opens folded by client
When more than 300 machines match, the device list opens with one line per client: machines, online, stale, offline, agents behind. Opening a client draws its groups and machines. A search or filter that narrows the list under 300 shows the machines straight away. On our 8,000-machine test tenant, with the processor slowed six times, the list is usable in 2.5 seconds instead of 4.
Remote sessions close after 15 minutes without input
On agent 0.3.115 and later a remote session stays open while the technician is using it and closes after 15 minutes without input, with the last minute counted down on screen. On Windows it follows the session on the screen when somebody signs out, switches user or connects over Remote Desktop, and says what happened. Earlier agents keep the 30-minute limit.