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One of TSheets partners, Jott.com will no longer offer a free option as of February 2nd.  This will not effect current TSheets customers using Jott, as the integration services are only available to paying Jott.com customers.

The popular voice to text service moved out of Beta (does that make it gamma?) last August, and added a premium account for a low $4/month fee.  According to Jott, about 30 percent of active users have bought in to premium, no ads version of the service.

Jott.com CEO John Pollard confirmed that the free version will be history as of February 2nd, citing that the current global economic downturn, which in turn has lead to horrible conditions for online advertisers, just isn’t footing the bills anymore, and each Jott.com customer will have to pay their own way to use the service.  Pollard also notes that to meet the bottom line, Jott would have to be plastered with advertising, and that it would simply ruin the experience (and for this, I stand and salute you sir!).  This will also apply to Jott iPhone application users.  However, those of you out there using TSheets integrated with your Jott.com account are already on the $3.95/month plan, so there should be no service interruptions.

Although Jott is now asking users to pay up, that doesn’t mean they’re holding back on adding some new features.  Similar to competitors Spinvox, PhoneTag, and GotVoice, Jott will now be offering a voicemail-to-text feature.  This new feature will do just as it says, convert your incoming voicemails to texts that can be sent to you in a matter of minutes.  At the $4/month rate, you won’t get this functionality, but priced at the same amount as Jott’s competitors: $10/month.

Current Jott.com users can upgrade from their free plan before February 2nd, including a tasty 10% discount, by accessing their Jott.com account page, typing in JOTT and their phone number as the promo code for the annual plan, or PRO and their phone number for the annual Pro plan.

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