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A few companies do "forever" licenses in addition to monthly/annual subscriptions, like Plex and Jetbrains.

Plex offers their "lifetime" license for the equivalent of 24 monthly purchases. Jetbrains lets you use their IDE forever upto the version you purchased, and you can pay each year to get the newer version.

As a consumer, I like the idea that I can own the software I bought even if it is a higher price tag.

Do you think these perpetual licenses are a good idea from the business side for SaaS if the cost of running a service is low enough?

At my previous day jobs I often was asked to create various reports from our databases and email someone a CSV. This got old pretty quick, as it distracted me from my actual assigned work. So I built a tool to automate it.

Today I am announcing the beta launch of this tool, SQL2Sheets https://sql2sheets.com/

It's a simple to use web app that connects popular SQL based databases and automatically update your Google Sheets.