What about hosting, storage and email?
Your Pono monthly subscription includes hosting, either on our ponoapp.com domain or on a domain that you own. If it's on your domain then we'll give you easy instructions on how to connect any domain that you own (like example.com) to your new Pono system. If you already have a website and you'd like to keep that as your website frontend then Pono will run in a subdomain such as portal.example.com, or clients.example.com (or whatever you would like to call it).
We include 500GB data storage and 500GB monthly data transfer in all of the monthly subscriptions. Unless you have a very large business (at least several thousand clients), this will be more than enough.
Your website can send out emails to your clients, for example confirmations (such as when they place an order), reminders (such as when they have a form to fill out, a check-in is due, or a payment fails) and messages from their coach. We include 50,000 monthly emails in all of the monthly subscriptions. Again, unless you have a very large business, this will be more than enough. If you do need more then we charge $1 per additional 1,000 emails per month — for example, if you send out 100,000 monthly emails then you would be billed $50, in addition to your monthly subscription. Please note that we are only referring here to emails that are sent out directly from your website, this has nothing to do with emails that you send in your normal email program.
We work with partner companies in order to offer the hosting, storage and email, and have been very careful to only choose world leading providers who offer dependable, reliable and quality services.
For web hosting, we work with a number of leading hosting providers with lightning fast, secure servers, for example Amazon, Linode and OVHcloud.
For data storage, we work with Amazon S3 and OVHcloud.
For sending emails, we work with Mailgun.
If you have a large number of clients, if your website has heavy traffic, or you're working with large data then we offer various upgrade options that let you increase the power of the hosting — from virtual private servers all the way up to very powerful dedicated servers — and you can also easily connect your own Amazon S3 and Mailgun accounts for storage and emails.
Please contact us any time with any questions.