Purchase
Pricing
Early adopters
Multi-unit purchase discounts (e.g. school district versus individual school)
Other incentives (what are they?)
Shipping (included in continental US)
Warranty
2 years
Typical – covering materials/workmanship, not vandalism/abuse
Extended warranty available
Cost?
Length of time?
Service Plan
What does this include?
Cost?
Interval?
Installation
Do we offer this?
Do not want to do this ourselves (unless it kills a deal, I suppose)
Richard may have a 3rd party company available for this work
Cost?
Include as item in purchase contract?
Have a separate contract for this?
Funnel
Included
Facility built/sourced
Lead time to produce
Raw materials currently need 12 weeks lead time (need to update this periodically)
Current allowance is a week for manufacturing of raw materials
Multiple units can be manufactured as a batch or sequentially to fit client needs
Purchase (capital budget) versus Lease options (operating budget)
Down payment of 50% with order, balance at delivery (or installation sign off)
“Finance”
Discussion of sources of capital for purchase
Discussion of methods to raise capital for purchase
Links to grant-giving organizations, gov’t or otherwise
How to afford it page - Grants, etc?
We had discussed with a prior group about maybe them putting together an ad hoc company to provide options for loans and /or leases to schools for the Phantom
Something like GMAC has for car buyers
Buyers do not need all the cash immediately
Loan payments can be Operating budget versus capital budget
Loans to schools pretty much never default
When to seek this kind of option or service partner?
Where/how/when to talk about the December 2022 Federal School Security Grant?
135M nationwide
950k Metro Nashville