Why Dastkhat sells credits, not subscriptions

Most e-signature platforms are priced like gym memberships: a monthly fee that assumes you will show up constantly, collected happily when you do not. That model suits a company that signs hundreds of documents a month. It punishes everyone else.

Most businesses in Pakistan are everyone else. A property agency has a busy month, then a quiet one. An SME signs a burst of contracts at the start of a project and nothing for weeks. Renting software by the month for that pattern means paying mostly for silence.

How Dastkhat prices instead

One credit per recipient, charged when you send. That is the entire model.

• Preparing is free. Upload documents, place fields, set up signers — none of it costs anything until you actually send.
• Credits never expire. Buy a pack today, use the last credit next year. No use-it-or-lose-it clock.
• Top up your way. Bank transfer or card, whenever you need more.
• Verifying is always free. Anyone can check any document against the registry without an account, and nobody pays for it.

A two-signer contract costs two credits. A quiet month costs nothing.

The math for an occasional signer

Say you sign eight contracts a quarter, two recipients each. That is 16 credits every three months. On a subscription tool you would pay for twelve months to use roughly three — and lose access to your workspace the month you stop paying.

A subscription prices your anxiety — "what if we need it?" Credits price the thing you actually did.

No lock-in is a feature

Because there is no monthly plan, there is nothing to cancel and no tier to outgrow. Heavy months, buy a bigger pack; for teams signing at real scale, there are volume rates under Enterprise & API.

You can try the whole flow before buying anything: signup comes with 10 free credits — no card needed.