Scalegram has two ways to pay for the same product: $999.00 USD a month, or $9,999.00 USD for a year paid at the start. Nothing about the software differs between them. The bots, the tracked sites, the CRM, the tracking stack and the team rights are identical. What differs is when the money leaves and what happens if you change your mind.
The arithmetic is easy. Twelve monthly payments come to $11,988.00 USD. The yearly figure is $9,999.00 USD. Paying up front saves the difference, which is roughly two months, and costs you the option to stop after the second month.
What you are actually buying with the discount
A prepaid year is not a loyalty reward, it is a trade. We get cash at the start instead of over twelve months, which is worth something to a software business, and you get a lower total. That is the whole mechanism. Any vendor telling a longer story about it is dressing up the same exchange.
Which means the question to ask is not whether the saving is nice. It is whether you would still be paying in month eleven. If you are confident you would, take the year. If you are not, the monthly option is cheap insurance against a decision you have not made yet.
When monthly is the right call
Three situations, and they are common enough that we tell people to take the monthly option outright rather than sell them a year.
The first is a business that has not yet proven its Telegram channel converts. If the funnel itself is the experiment, do not prepay the tooling around it. Run the assistant for two or three months, watch what the conversion events actually say about your traffic, and decide then.
The second is a seasonal operation. If four months of the year carry the business and the rest are quiet, paying by the month and pausing is straightforward, because nothing renews behind your back and restarting is a payment rather than a reinstallation.
The third is a team that has not finished its setup. The value of the product turns on the flows, the saved replies, the facts your bots answer from and the integrations you connect. A firm that has not written those yet will spend the first prepaid months paying for a product it has not switched on. Get the bot set up and running first, then commit.
Neither option renews on its own. A prepaid year does not roll into a second year, and a month does not silently become the next one. When a term ends you decide again, deliberately.
When yearly is the right call
Take the year when Telegram is already the main sales channel, the flows are written, the integrations are connected and the assistant is handling volume you would otherwise be paying a person to handle. At that point the tool is infrastructure, not a trial, and the saving is free money against a cost you were going to carry anyway.
Budgeting is the second reason and it matters more in firms with a finance function. One invoice at the start of a year, no recurring reconciliation, no card expiry event twelve times a year, no failed payment that quietly interrupts your sales channel on a Saturday. Recurring card billing has a failure rate that nobody quotes in advance, and the general shape of that problem is covered in recurring billing.
Refunds, and being honest about them
There is one more consideration that only shows up in larger firms. A prepaid year is a single procurement decision, approved once, with one purchase order and one supplier record. A monthly charge is twelve reconciliations and a recurring authorisation that some finance departments will query every quarter. If your approvals process is heavier than your card, the yearly option is cheaper than the arithmetic suggests, and if the reverse is true then monthly costs less than it looks.
Subscriptions activate immediately and fees are non-refundable once activated. That applies to both options, and it is a heavier commitment on a year than on a month, so it belongs in the decision rather than in small print at the end.
The reason is that everything is delivered on day one. The panel opens, the bots connect, the tracking runs. There is no phased delivery over the term against which a partial refund could be measured. If that policy makes a prepaid year uncomfortable for you, that discomfort is telling you to pay monthly, and we would rather you did.
How each is paid
Both options can be paid by card, handled by Paddle as merchant of record, or in crypto. The rail does not change the price. A prepaid year in crypto is a single transfer, which some operators prefer specifically because it removes the card entirely from a business that dislikes recurring authorisations. The comparison between the two rails is in paying by card or crypto.
One practical note for either rail. Because nothing renews automatically, put the end of your term in a calendar. The most common support message we get about billing is from somebody who assumed a renewal would happen and found their term had ended. That is the intended behaviour, and it still surprises people who are used to software that renews until you fight it.
Check scalegram.io for the current published prices before planning around any figure quoted here.
"If you would not confidently pay for month eleven, do not prepay for the year. The discount is real and it is not worth buying a decision you have not made yet."
— Roman Onta, Executive Director, SINGUARD
Key Takeaways
- Twelve monthly payments come to $11,988.00 USD against $9,999.00 USD for a prepaid year, a saving of roughly two months.
- Pay monthly while the Telegram channel is still unproven, while the business is seasonal, or before the flows and integrations are set up.
- Pay yearly once Telegram is the main sales channel, which also removes twelve card charges and the failed payment that interrupts a Saturday.
- Both options activate immediately, are non-refundable once activated, and neither renews on its own, so put the end of the term in a calendar.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does the yearly plan include anything extra?
No. The software is identical on both. The only differences are the total paid, when it is paid, and the length of the commitment.
Can I switch from monthly to yearly later?
Yes. Nothing renews automatically, so at the end of a monthly term you simply pay for a year instead. Check the current published prices on the product site first.
What happens when my term ends?
Access ends unless you pay again. There is no automatic renewal on either rail and no cancellation form to find, which means the end date is yours to track.
About the Author
Roman Onta is an Executive Director at SINGUARD. He builds the Prop Firm CRM, the Broker CRM, Scalegram and CopySignals side by side with his brother Alex Onta, and he helped on the design of eTrader, the division Alex built and leads. His ground is worldwide payment processing, AML compliance and the corporate structures brokers are built on, work the two of them carry together, shaped by executive roles in the UAE and international corporates. He lives and works in Dubai for most of the year. Meet the executive duo leading Singuard's five divisions.