diff --git a/plugins/ps/functions.go b/plugins/ps/functions.go
index f47bb9c64..b318c86df 100644
--- a/plugins/ps/functions.go
+++ b/plugins/ps/functions.go
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ import (
 )
 
 func canScaleApp(appName string) bool {
-	return !common.FileExists(getScalefileExtractedPath(appName))
+	canScale := common.PropertyGetDefault("ps", appName, "can-scale", "true")
+	return common.ToBool(canScale)
 }
 
 func extractProcfile(appName, image string) error {
diff --git a/plugins/ps/src/triggers/triggers.go b/plugins/ps/src/triggers/triggers.go
index e3a365fbd..bad436b7b 100644
--- a/plugins/ps/src/triggers/triggers.go
+++ b/plugins/ps/src/triggers/triggers.go
@@ -75,14 +75,18 @@ func main() {
 	case "procfile-remove":
 		appName := flag.Arg(0)
 		err = ps.TriggerProcfileRemove(appName)
+	case "ps-can-scale":
+		appName := flag.Arg(0)
+		canScale := common.ToBool(flag.Arg(1))
+		err = ps.TriggerPsCanScale(appName, canScale)
+	case "ps-current-scale":
+		appName := flag.Arg(0)
+		err = ps.TriggerPsCurrentScale(appName)
 	case "ps-set-scale":
 		appName := flag.Arg(0)
 		appName, args := common.ShiftString(flag.Args())
 		skipDeploy, processTuples := common.ShiftString(args)
 		err = ps.TriggerPsSetScale(appName, common.ToBool(skipDeploy), processTuples)
-	case "ps-current-scale":
-		appName := flag.Arg(0)
-		err = ps.TriggerPsCurrentScale(appName)
 	case "report":
 		appName := flag.Arg(0)
 		err = ps.ReportSingleApp(appName, "", "")
diff --git a/plugins/ps/triggers.go b/plugins/ps/triggers.go
index e152e447d..9de576f28 100644
--- a/plugins/ps/triggers.go
+++ b/plugins/ps/triggers.go
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"path"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"sort"
+	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 
 	sh "github.com/codeskyblue/go-sh"
@@ -265,6 +266,11 @@ func TriggerProcfileRemove(appName string) error {
 	return removeProcfile(appName)
 }
 
+// TriggerPsCanScale sets whether or not a user can scale an app with ps:scale
+func TriggerPsCanScale(appName string, canScale bool) error {
+	return common.PropertyWrite("ps", appName, "can-scale", strconv.FormatBool(canScale))
+}
+
 // TriggerPsCurrentScale prints out the current scale contents (process-type=quantity) delimited by newlines
 func TriggerPsCurrentScale(appName string) error {
 	formations, err := getFormations(appName)