# Scrintal releases the private beta: combine visuality with knowledge management

> Starting on the September 29th, those who would like to use Scrintal right away will receive a yearly access for $60.

- Address: https://scrintal.com/blog/scrintal-releases-the-private-beta-combine-visuality-with-knowledge-management
- Blog post by Ece Kural, published by Scrintal
- Published: 2022-09-14
- Updated: 2022-09-28
- Topics: Knowledge Management, Tools for Thought, Pricing, Startup, Visual Thinking

Hello world! We are releasing Scrintal private beta!

*Scrintal supports live collaboration*

**Starting on the September 29th, those who would like to use Scrintal right away will receive a yearly access** **for $60.**

[You can **reserve your spot here** to get access the earliest](https://scrintal.com/).

With this plan, you’ll be able to create and link unlimited number of cards or boards, use templates, and export your work. Use Scrintal across Mac, Windows, Web. Use spotlight search with our desktop apps.

You will *collaborate with others in real time* and easily share links of your work.

In this post, we answer the most commonly asked 14 questions.

1. *💰 How did we land on $5/month for the early access plan?*
2. *👀 To whom does this price apply?*
3. *🔒Will the early access plan price be locked in forever?*
4. *🧺What does the Early access plan include?*
5. *🏃‍♀Why do we lock the early access plan pricing only for the first 2,000?*
6. 🩹*How can I receive support from the Scrintal team and community?*
7. 🏦 *Can I expense my Scrintal early access plan subscription to my company?*
8. *📅 When will you release the freemium plan?*
9. ⏰ *What is upcoming in the product?*
10. *🧨 What happens if Scrintal goes bankrupt or gets acquired by another company?*
11. *📤 Will I be able to export my data?*
12. *🔐 Can I cancel my early access plan subscription?*
13. *📥 How do I import my work from other tools to Scrintal?*
14. *📱 Does Scrintal work on mobile or tablet?*
15. *🔋 Will I have access to new features after I get the early access plan?*
16. *🚋 Will I have a say in the product development?*
17. *🛑 Is my data safe with Scrintal?*
18. *💳 Which payment options will you support with the early access plan?*

## 1. How did we land on $5/month for the early access plan? 💰
We felt that the decision on a price tag on Scrintal should be a collaborative effort, not just something we decide in a top-down approach.

So, we sent out a short survey to all our waitlisters and asked their input on pricing. We feel grateful to 1500+ waitlisters who shared their thoughts.

![A glimpse into Scrintal Pricing Survey](https://scrintal.com/__l5e/assets-v1/5fdc255c-bfc9-47e0-b1bc-31c821456ed9/scrintal-releases-the-private-beta-combine-visuality-with-knowledge-management-2.webp)

*A glimpse into Scrintal Pricing Survey*

Those who tried Scrintal were willing to pay 60% more than those who haven’t tried. Yet there are many who haven’t had the chance to use Scrintal yet but were ok to give it a go with an affordable pricing.

**We asked for a pricing sweet spot and saw that $5 per month for many was ideal for many. That’s why $60/year became the cornerstone of our early plan.** We explain how we made the final decision on pricing [here](https://scrintal.com/blog/revealing-scrintals-early-access-plan) in more detail.

## 2. To whom does this price apply? 👀

To Anyone who purchases the early access plan before the Scrintal official launch. So if you subscribe to the annual early access plan, you will automatically take advantage of the **$60/year.**

## 3. Will the early access plan price be locked in forever? 🔒

Even though we’re trying to be as transparent as possible with product development, share product videos and involve our users, we know it can be difficult to purchase a product without trying it.

You might have doubts especially when there are many alternatives out there.

**The first 2000 people who subscribe to our early access plan** will be entitled to $60/year **forever** unless they cancel their subscription.

This is the least we can do to show our appreciation for your trust and support in our team.

So you will be able to take advantage of the same price for joining early.

### Inspiration for this decision
Our decision was influenced by our community. And it is similar to buying a flat before the construction begins.

In Stockholm where we live, construction firms do a pre-sales to gauge interest and secure some funding for their projects.

In exchange, the buyers gets the opportunity to buy a flat at a cheaper price because they wait longer than usual until the construction is complete so they can move in.

What we’re doing is similar except you don’t need to wait to access the product. So those who purchase the early-access plan gets something in return.

## 4. *What does the Early access plan include?* 🧺

The early access plan includes the following 👇

- Unlimited boards
- Unlimited cards
- Unlimited file uploads
- Real-time collaboration
- Markdown archive import
- Individual PDF & Markdown export
- Priority support
- Possibility to book a 1–1 onboarding with Scrintal team.

As an early access plan subscriber, you can join our Slack channel and receive priority support for any questions you might have.

## **5. Why do we lock the early access plan pricing only for the first 2,000?** *🏃‍♀*

Sometimes we receive messages asking to lock the early access plan for all subscribers forever.

We understand how great that would be from a user perspective. Besides being founders, we’re also users of many tools and services.

When you’re building a product, you become aware of many unknown variables that can have a huge impact on the business.

Scrintal uses external service providers such as server providers. Depending on the usage, inflation, geopolitical issues you name it, they can change the price they offer to us anytime. It happened before.

Unfortunately that puts any company at risk. This is one of the main reasons why we cannot make the early-access price for everyone forever.

And we don’t want to promise something that is not 100% in our control.

We thank you for your understanding 🙏

## 6. How can I receive support from the Scrintal team and community? 🩹

As an early access plan subscriber, you can join our 1,200 member strong Slack community to ask any questions and receive support.

Also if you like, you can book a 1–1 onboarding or a support call with Scrintal team. The calendar link will also be sent via an email to subscribers.

## 7. Can I expense my Scrintal early access plan subscription to my company? 🏦

For early access plan subscriptions, you will receive a detailed invoice which you can use for expensing and reimbursements.

If you have a question on your invoice or would like to change anything, you can contact us at support\[at\]scrintal.com

## 8. When will you release the freemium plan? 📅

We don’t have a specified date for this yet. This will most likely happen in the first half of 2023.

**Will you introduce a monthly billing instead of yearly plan?**

Yes, we will. Just like the freemium plan, we don’t know when that will happen but 99% sometime in 2023.

## 9. What is upcoming in the product? ⏰

Scrintal is constantly evolving and our roadmap has the following 👇

- Full text search (coming soon)
- Offline mode (coming soon)
- More export options (coming soon)
- Templates Library (coming soon)
- Create your own templates (coming soon)
- User generated templates (coming soon)
- Further visual elements and visual linking (coming soon)
- Dark Mode (coming soon)
- Advanced collaboration features (coming soon)
- Native apps (coming soon)

You can join our [Slack community](https://join.slack.com/t/scrintal-community/shared_invite/zt-1fstdhqle-L~0AfV3rDyPFjf~ApAS9Ug), to learn about the latest product updates.

## 10. What happens if Scrintal goes bankrupt or gets acquired by another company? 🧨

We’ve successfully closed a seed round in August 2022. More details on this will come when we announce the investment round. This and prior investment gives us a secure runway in the foreseeable future.

Having said that, you never know what happens in life. So we allow users to export work in multiple formats to make sure you don’t lose a single piece of data.

## 11. Will I be able to export my data? 📤

Yes! We already offer individual card export in PDF and Markdown formats.

![Scrintal offers MD download and PDF export options](https://scrintal.com/__l5e/assets-v1/d9b79edc-7e0a-4d73-87ea-2218489eb209/scrintal-releases-the-private-beta-combine-visuality-with-knowledge-management-3.webp)

*Scrintal offers MD download and PDF export options*

We will later on explore the board export functionalities.

## 12. Can I cancel my early access plan subscription? 🔐

Yes! You can email support\[at\]scrintal.com within the 7 days of subscription and receive a full refund.

## 13. How do I import my work from other tools to Scrintal? 📥

You can import your work from other tools to Scrintal with just a few clicks. The first step is exporting your work as a MarkDown archive. As an example, Obsidian, Roam Research, and Notion allow for MarkDown archive exports. For other tools, you can check for the help sections and find ways to export as a MarkDown archive.

Importing these archives to Scrintal is just with one-click. Scrintal imports all the bi-directional and wiki links and tags.

## 14. Does Scrintal work on mobile or tablet? 📱

Yes to both! You can use Scrintal on web browsers on both mobile and tablet devices.

But we don’t have native apps for cross-device operability *yet*. We know native apps are important and demanded. So we’ve already placed them in our product roadmap.

## 15. Will I have access to new features after I get the early access plan? 🔋

Yes! All early access plans will include new features and updates as they are added. Scrintal is in beta which means you will observe a rapid product development once you start using it.

We’ve already identified the most crucial functions and features thanks to our early users’ feedback between Jan-Aug 2022.

So you’ll enjoy the new features as soon as we implement them.

## 16. Will I have a say in the product development?

Yes! Everyday we are shipping updates, improvements and new features.

We highly appreciate and value user feedback. This is why we built a [Scrintal community](https://join.slack.com/t/scrintal-community/shared_invite/zt-19dkh5co1-YYqXRS0Byu3ErA7KiwK3rA). As an early access plan subscriber, you’ll be invited to an exclusive channel where you can get priority support and book 1–1 meetings with founders!

Our community members posts requests and feedback daily👇

![](https://scrintal.com/__l5e/assets-v1/13ad420f-04e2-4a28-b789-16c29800059f/scrintal-releases-the-private-beta-combine-visuality-with-knowledge-management-4.webp)

The Scrintal team acts rapidly 👇

![](https://scrintal.com/__l5e/assets-v1/bb787a5c-3f95-4a16-a691-5dc488ec4557/scrintal-releases-the-private-beta-combine-visuality-with-knowledge-management-5.webp)

We cannot promise that we’ll implement every single feature request but this type of conversations provide us with a healthy overview of your use cases and why you need certain functionalities.

## 17. Is my data safe with Scrintal? 🛑

This is one of the most important questions. For those who don’t know, the founders of Scrintal, Furkan, Arda and I, built an automated transcription software before we started building Scrintal.

As our users were mainly academics and universities, we prioritised data safety and GDPR compliance.

Same mindset continues with Scrintal 👇

### Data Security & Strong Encryption

Scrintal uses the industry standard HTTPS (using TLS 1.2) for secure data upload, export and transfer.

We use data centres by Amazon Web Services (AWS) which offers the highest levels of physical and infrastructure security, certified with ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 27017 and ISO 27018.

Scrintal encrypts all data using AES 256 when at rest. This means when you’re not actively working in the tool, your data will remain encrypted in our servers.

> *AES-256 supports the largest bit size and makes it the strongest encryption standard available today.*

- **Safe data storage**

Scrintal stores your data in AWS data centres in the EU with world-leading levels of security.

- **Back Up**

All of your data is regularly backed up to make sure there is minimal risk of data loss. All of the backups are encrypted and we are obliged to delete any user data within the backups if you request it.

- **Website Security Test**

We are running regular website penetration tests with a cybersecurity partner.

### Who can see your data?

- **Your data is not shared**

We do not share your data, whether it is sensitive or not, with anyone.

- **Your data is not sold to 3rd parties**

We do not sell or share your files with any 3rd parties for any purposes, including running ads.

- **Your data is encrypted**

Even we don’t see your data (and that is not what we are interested in) — the only exception is if you give a written consent for us to check a technical issue.

All your created data is fully encrypted when it is transferred between data centres and when stored in the absence of any action (data at rest).

### Billing & Payment Security

We use Stripe to process all our payments.

Stripe is a PCI DSS certified payment processor and uses a high level of encryption to protect all payment details entered.

Companies like Twitter, H&M or Ford use Stripe for various purposes.

Scrintal employees are not able to view complete billing details and we don’t store your credit card information directly. Stripe stores them securely.

## 18. Which payment options will you support with the early access plan? 💳

We will first enable payments with credit and debit cards via Stripe.

Stripe is one of the most secure payment processor options in the market, used by thousands of companies around the world.

In the future, we will expand the selection and will offer several other local payment options as well.

Thanks so much for reading 🙏 For any questions, [ping us in our Slack channel](https://join.slack.com/t/scrintal-community/shared_invite/zt-19dkh5co1-YYqXRS0Byu3ErA7KiwK3rA) and [register for the early access plan here](https://scrintal.com/).

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