Feature Flags and Entitlements: A Practical Guide
Feature flags control rollouts. Entitlements control paid access. Conflating them creates maintenance debt. Learn when to use each.
From Free to Paid: A SaaS Migration Guide
A practical free-to-paid SaaS migration guide. Convert free users to paying customers through grandfathering, communication, and billing setup.
The Most Expensive Mistake Startups Make With Stripe
Build vs buy your SaaS billing system? Checkout takes a week. Webhooks, proration, and failed payments take months. Here's the real cost.
Avoid Double Charges, Chargebacks, and Angry Customers
Testing your billing integration prevents double charges, missed access, and angry customers. A framework to catch bugs before production.
What Stripe Won't Tell You About Subscription Billing
Stripe makes billing look solved. Then you discover the gaps: entitlements, seat management, price grandfathering, and failed payment recovery.
Why Per-Seat Pricing Is Way Harder Than It Looks
When a company wants team seats, billing gets complicated fast. Who pays? Who gets access? How do mid-cycle changes work?
Going from Conceptualisation to Monetization
A case study in building a SaaS product from scratch and monetising it with tiered pricing, metered billing, and entitlements.
Your Pricing Will Change, Your Code Shouldn’t
Stop checking plan names in code. The entitlements pattern decouples pricing from your application, so pricing changes never require a deploy.
Market-Leading SaaS Pricing Strategies You Should Steal
SaaS pricing follows proven patterns. Study what market leaders do with tiers, anchoring, and value metrics instead of guessing your own.
Why Letting Customers Pay Less Makes More Money
Flexible SaaS pricing reduces churn. A tailored plan means less revenue than a full upgrade, but far more than a cancellation.
Choose the Wrong Pricing Model, Pay for It Later
Flat-rate, per-seat, or usage-based? Your pricing model should match how customers measure your product's value. Here's how to choose.
The Ultimate Guide to Commercial Models
Break down the four building blocks of a commercial model: monetisation, revenue mechanics, pricing structure, and billing. With real-world examples.
Use a Private GitHub Repo as an NPM Package
‘Install NPM packages from a private GitHub repo without paying for NPM premium. Covers local setup, CI/CD pipelines, and Vercel deploys.’