Chat platform Slack to hike prices for Pro subscription users

(Reuters) – Slack stated on Monday it can enhance costs for its platform, the office messaging app’s first value hike since its 2014 launch, as the corporate seeks to take a position extra in innovation.

The pricing change will go into impact as of Sept. 1, the corporate stated in a weblog, and can have an effect on solely customers on Slack’s Professional subscription.

Month-to-month Professional subscriptions will enhance to $8.75 from $8 and annual Professional subscriptions will enhance to $7.25 per 30 days from $6.67, in response to the corporate.

Slack, which permits people to create on-the-fly group conversations, stated it can additionally replace its free subscription plan to make it simpler for customers to strive new options, together with clips, which permit anybody to ship audio and video and screen-share messages in direct messages and channel.

Slack, owned by Salesforce, has develop into a typical on-line office messaging instrument utilized by many corporations.

(Reporting by Maria Ponnezhath in Bengaluru; Enhancing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips)