We have a small new feature for you today, or rather a new way to access an old feature. Spreedly’s long had the ability from the admin UI to add lifetime complimentary subscriptions, allowing you to give your family, friends, and biggest supporters free access forever. I just checked, and this feature has been used hundreds of times since we first launched it.

But as so often happens, we release something and our clients – all of you! – think of uses we’d never even dreamed of. In particular a lot of folks have wanted to track all their users in Spreedly, not just the paying ones, and a lifetime comp with a feature level of “free” seemed like a nice simple way of doing that. But since it wasn’t possible to add lifetime comps via the API, it wasn’t a workable solution.

That is, until now: check out the documentation for the new Lifetime Comp API and let us know what you think. We’re betting there are even more uses for it that we haven’t thought of yet, and we’re waiting for you to tell us about them.

This is a specific example of a general process we try to follow: work to add general purpose tools and then see how clients use them. Learn from that and tweak the tools to be even better. Rinse, repeat. And of course what makes it work is the amazing feedback we get from all of you – keep it coming!