ZackL

Thanks, Charles. This is a serious change that should be described on a blog or in a dedicated topic.
For me and for many clients it is breaking news 😬

And now we have a need for this, you carrot danglers.

IPS has made it clear that they prefer cloud customers. I doubt there will be any new and substantial feature additions that would only benefit self-hosted clients. 

I like this idea quite a lot. It seems like something that should definitely be included in a future version.

I don't know if you know the site https://gumroad.com/, but I'm going to use it as an example of what I would like to have as an option for files in the suite.
In that site you are allowed to specify a minimum purchase price for your products. So lets say that I put something for sale at a minimum price of $5, people can buy it for that amount, or they can pay more if they wish.
Now, what's more interesting here is that you can set free files, setting the minimum price to 0, but people can still choose to give you some money for it, kind of like a tip.
This is one of my products:

People can input 0 in the box and get the file right away, or they can input whatever amount they feel like.
I'm not gonna reveal any numbers, but this system kinda works, people tips more than I expected for free files.