Billing Engines Don't Solve Pricing Problems

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  • awesome-priceops

    Links to articles, guides and resources related to software pricing and its implementation.

  • 100%. The main reason we created https://priceops.org is that there's a real mind-shift that has to happen for someone to realize that there's even a "there" there. Most people who've been through it understand all too well, but even there, it's tempting to think "Oh, if only we'd just committed ignorantly to a better pricing model..." not realizing that you'll always get it wrong and the context will always be changing, so it's critical to have an implementation that can respond to new information.

    > 5. Pray that no one ever has to touch it again. (Or failing that, hope you've got a new job somewhere else before that happens.)

    So many otherwise smart people make this foolish bet. It is an exceptionally long shot.

    > Of course I don't wish them too much success, since I'd like to have some customers too.

    Feeling is mutual, I'm sure <3 I think it's potentially a very big space with a lot of work to be done, so there's room for plenty of players in it.

  • lago

    Open Source Metering and Usage Based Billing API ⭐️ Consumption tracking, Subscription management, Pricing iterations, Payment orchestration & Revenue analytics

  • I haven't used any of these tools, but I'm starting to explore them. The other one I found was https://github.com/getlago/lago

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