Getting value from your site
This section is for organizations that already run a site on Exponential and want to know, and grow, what it gives them. It is for the owner, the manager who answers for the budget, and whoever talks to the host or partner. The pages that help you decide whether to choose Exponential are in the businesses section (Total cost of ownership, ROI worksheet template); here you measure and improve a site that is already yours.
Measure and decide
| Page | Use it to |
|---|---|
| Measuring ROI | Choose what to measure, where the figures come from, and how often |
| ROI example assumptions | See a worked calculation with labeled example figures, to copy with your own |
| ROI worksheet | Compare what you expected with what you got, once a year |
| Cost of ownership for owners | Track what the site really costs to run, line by line |
| Annual value review | Hold one meeting a year that decides what to keep, change or add |
Use what you have
| Page | Use it to |
|---|---|
| Feature tour | See the main features of Exponential in one place, with who uses each |
| Features customers often miss | Find the tools already in your installation that save time |
Checklists
Checklists for owners collects the routines in one place: daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly, before a campaign and after an incident.
Three facts behind the value
| Fact | Source |
|---|---|
| "Using Exponential under the terms of the GNU GPL is free of charge." No license fee is part of your running cost. | README.md, "License" |
| Exponential 6.0 is the maintained line; security fixes are published with the next 6.0.x release, and a published tag is never changed. | SECURITY.md |
| Shop, multi-site, multilingual content, workflows, feeds, contact forms and a REST API are built in. | README.md, "Main Exponential features" |
Note
Every number on these pages that is not a fact from the repository is marked "Example assumptions: replace with your own". None of them is a price, a quote or a measurement of your site.
Related pages
- Total cost of ownership
- Return on investment of stability
- Running your store
- Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.
Become an Exponential Partner
Partners share their information, provide funding, contribute back and develop the products with us, and that is how Exponential grows. A partner website and dashboard are planned for mid-2027: please become a partner today to speed up our growth rate and land new features faster.