The Complexity of Usage Based Billing

Credits solve a lot of billing problems

How To: Usage-based Billing with Prepaid Credits

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Guide to Revenue Recognition on 4 Common Pricing Scenarios

Revenue Recognition Guide

Creating a Competitive Advantage: Switching to Usage-Based Pricing

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Comparing Octane with Stripe for Usage-Based Billing

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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.

SaaS Inception: The gotchas of dogfooding

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

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.

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.