Discussion and insights on the latest in usage-based pricing.

Credits solve a lot of billing problems

As you might imagine, moving from a traditional subscription-based pricing model to a usage-based one isn’t without its complexities.

Salem Hilal

10/1/2022
Credits, SaaS, Pricing
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How To: Usage-based Billing with Prepaid Credits

Using prepaid credits can add more predictability to usage-based pricing models. With it, businesses can capture upfront revenue on usage.

Karan Dhabalia

8/26/2022
Credits, SaaS, Billing
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Guide to Revenue Recognition on 4 Common Pricing Scenarios

It is critical to ensure that your business is recognizing revenue on a timely basis and correctly.

Andrés Vélez

5/1/2022
Finance, Accounting, Pricing
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Creating a Competitive Advantage: Switching to Usage-Based Pricing

Usage-based pricing is becoming a market standard for SaaS companies worldwide.

Habiba Shalaby

7/28/2022
Pricing, SaaS, Trends
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How ContainIQ Uses Octane to Power Its Kubernetes Monitoring Platform’s Metered Billing

Pricing is a notoriously difficult thing to figure out as a SaaS startup.

Nate Matherson, Co-founder & CEO of ContainIQ

5/20/2022
Customer Testimonial, Revenue, Use Case
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Comparing Octane with Stripe for Usage-Based Billing

While Octane and Stripe Billing may seem similar, they take radically different approaches to usage-based billing.

Salem Hilal

2/23/2022
Product, Engineering, Tools
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MRR doesn't work for usage-based models

MRR is a good KPI for subscription businesses, not usage-based billing models.

Karan Dhabalia

4/29/2022
Revenue, Investor Reporting, SaaS
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SaaS Inception
SaaS Inception: The gotchas of dogfooding

With SaaS inception, we dogfood our product and benefit from using it.

Karan Dhabalia

7/1/2021
Engineering, SaaS, QA
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SaaS billing isn't fair

SaaS billing is rarely fair. Either the vendor gave away too good a deal or the customer just got ripped off.

Akash Khanolkar

5/3/2021
Pricing, Customer Success, SaaS Models
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The Complexity of Usage Based Billing

Implementing usage-based billing may seem easy on the surface, but if you dig under the covers its a much more complex engineering problem.

Karan Dhabalia

7/28/2020
Engineering, Billing Infrastructure, Metering
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Press

CEO Akash Khanolkar on Deloitte's On Cloud Podcast ↗
Uncharted Podcast: Build vs. Buy ↗
Octane banks $2M for flexible billing software ↗
Data Leadership Lessons podcast ↗
Unlimited Partners Podcast: Jenny Bloom and Akash Khanolkar ↗
Pingpong Podcast: The Future of Enterprise Billing ↗