Pricing & Monetization
Credit-Based Pricing: Prepaid Credits, Top-Ups and Real-Time Balances
Oct 10, 2026
Usage-Based Billing: The Complete Guide (How It Works, Models, Examples & Software)
Oct 10, 2026
SaaS Billing System Buyer's Guide: 8 Live Demo Tests
Oct 9, 2026
Billing Model Migration: Test Revenue Before You Switch
Oct 9, 2026
EU Billing System Checklist: VAT, Invoices, Data, and Usage
Oct 9, 2026
How to make usage-based revenue auditable: the reconciliation finance needs
Oct 8, 2026
Usage-based vs seat-based pricing: 5 models and when each works
Oct 8, 2026
How to add usage-based pricing to an existing SaaS without rebuilding your whole system
Oct 8, 2026
An agent is not an extension of the employee who created it
Sep 21, 2026
Lago vs Togai: Which Usage-Based Billing Platform Fits Your Stack?
Aug 24, 2026
How to Choose a Billable Metric (and Why Most Companies Get It Wrong)
Aug 24, 2026
Top Metronome Alternatives for Usage-Based Billing (2026)
Aug 18, 2026
Everyone wants to be the AI gateway
Aug 17, 2026
Event-Based Billing Explained: Examples & How to Build It
Aug 10, 2026
What Is Metered Billing? How It Works
Aug 4, 2026
By 2027, every AI company will need a billing engineer. Most don't know it yet.
Jul 29, 2026
Why Stripe may pay $10B for a router everyone is building
Jul 27, 2026
Lago vs Orb: Open-Source Billing vs a Billing Specialist Now Inside Adyen
Jul 21, 2026
Lago vs Metronome: Open-Source Billing vs an Enterprise Usage-Billing Specialist Now Inside Stripe
Jul 21, 2026
Lago vs Stripe Billing: Feature Comparison, Pricing, and Open-Source Advantages
Jul 20, 2026
Lago vs Chargebee: Open-Source Billing vs a Subscription-First Suite
Jul 2, 2026
Lago vs Zuora: Open-Source Billing vs an Enterprise RevRec Suite
Jul 2, 2026
How Enterprise Pricing Actually Works (2026)
Jul 1, 2026
Pricing and Billing Glossary (2026)
Jul 1, 2026
B2B SaaS Subscription Management: Best Practices and Strategies
Jun 23, 2026
Understanding the Pay-as-You-Go Pricing Model for SaaS Businesses
Jun 1, 2026
AI Billing is (mostly) token plumbing
May 26, 2026
Anthropic took the unfair bullet for ending finger-based pricing
May 26, 2026
SaaS Cancellation Flows: Reduce Churn at the Exit Point
Mar 17, 2026
Consumption-Based Pricing for SaaS: What to Know
Mar 17, 2026
Billing Audit Trails: Immutable Logs, Compliance, Forensics
Mar 17, 2026
Real-Time Billing: Stream Processing, Event Sourcing, CQRS
Mar 17, 2026
Billing System Scalability: Horizontal Scaling, Sharding, Multi-Tenancy
Mar 17, 2026
Billing Disaster Recovery: Backup, RPO/RTO, and Failover
Mar 9, 2026
Billing Webhook Reliability: Idempotency and Retries
Mar 9, 2026
KYC and AML for Fintech Billing: Implementation Guide
Mar 9, 2026
Audit-Grade Billing Accuracy: Requirements and Testing
Mar 9, 2026
Dimensional Pricing in Cloud Infrastructure: A Technical Framework
Mar 9, 2026
Rating Engine Architecture: From Raw Events to Billable Amounts
Mar 3, 2026
Event Ingestion Architecture: Building Reliable Metering Pipelines
Mar 3, 2026
Subscription Analytics: Cohort Analysis, LTV, and Retention Metrics
Mar 3, 2026
Churn Prediction Models: A Technical Guide for SaaS
Mar 3, 2026
RevOps for SaaS: Building a Revenue Operations Function in 2026
Mar 3, 2026
Proration in SaaS Billing: Calculations and Edge Cases
Feb 23, 2026
Revenue Leakage in SaaS: How Billing Gaps Cost 1-5% of ARR
Feb 23, 2026
Billing Tax Automation: Sales Tax, VAT, and Global Compliance
Feb 23, 2026
Self-hosted vs cloud billing: how to decide
Feb 23, 2026
Fintech Billing: Multi-Currency, Real-Time Settlement, and Compliance
Feb 23, 2026
How to Choose a Billing Platform: A Buyer's Framework for 2026
Feb 23, 2026
Dunning Management: How to Recover Failed Payments Without Losing Customers
Feb 23, 2026
How Billing Drives Product-Led Growth: From Free Tier to Enterprise
Feb 23, 2026
How to Run Pricing Experiments Without Breaking Your Billing System
Feb 20, 2026
How to Bill for GPU Compute: A Technical Guide for AI Infrastructure Companies
Feb 20, 2026
Marketplace Billing: Revenue Splits, Partner Payouts, and Multi-Party Invoicing
Feb 20, 2026
Why Stripe paid $1B for Metronome instead of fixing Billing
Feb 14, 2026
Multi-Entity Billing: A Guide for Global SaaS
Feb 13, 2026
Billing System Migration: The Complete Playbook for Replacing Legacy Systems
Feb 13, 2026
Billing Observability: Monitoring, Alerts, and Metrics for Revenue Operations
Feb 13, 2026
Telecom billing: Best practices and systems to use
Feb 1, 2026
What Is the Most Flexible Billing System?
Jan 26, 2026
How to set pricing metrics for usage-based and AI SaaS
Jan 26, 2026
7 billing models you need to know if you work on pricing
Sep 30, 2025
What's the best billing system for GovTech companies?
Sep 19, 2025
Air gapped billing system: What it is, how it works and how to build one
Sep 19, 2025
Billing Compliance: GDPR, PCI DSS, and ASC 606 Explained
Sep 19, 2025
How to Evaluate a Billing System: Questions to Ask Before You Commit
Sep 8, 2025
What is revenue forecasting and how does it work?
Sep 8, 2025
How SaaS License Management Works
Sep 1, 2025
What are feature entitlements and how do they work?
Sep 1, 2025
How do entitlements work in SaaS?
Sep 1, 2025
Metered Billing for Cloud Infrastructure: How It Actually Works
Aug 25, 2025
The Complete Guide to Accrued Revenue for SaaS Companies
Aug 25, 2025
Bookings vs. Billings in SaaS: Complete Guide
Aug 25, 2025
How Usage-Based Pricing Increases NRR
Aug 18, 2025
What Is The Van Westendorp Pricing Model And How Does It Work?
Aug 18, 2025
What is value-based pricing and how does it work?
Aug 11, 2025
What is freemium pricing in SaaS and how does it work?
Aug 6, 2025
Full playbook: How to architect billing systems to power usage-based pricing
Aug 5, 2025
Usage-Based Pricing: The Implementation Playbook
Aug 5, 2025
Pricing psychology: SaaS pricing strategies that make users buy
Aug 1, 2025
Best AI Billing Software for Small Businesses
Jul 29, 2025
Billing System Software: How It Actually Works
Jul 3, 2025
IFRS 15 for SaaS: Revenue Recognition and Multi-Element Contracts
Jul 3, 2025
Understanding Revenue Recognition Fundamentals
Jul 3, 2025
Usage-Based Revenue Recognition: ASC 606 Explained
Jun 26, 2025
SaaS Billing Best Practices: How to Optimize Your B2B Billing Process
Jun 20, 2025
How to monetize APIs: Billing for your API product
Jun 13, 2025
What are hybrid pricing models and how do they work?
Jun 13, 2025
What is outcome-based pricing and how does it work?
Jun 7, 2025
What is consumption-based pricing? And how to implement it
Jun 2, 2025
How to Monetize Developer Tools with Usage-Based Billing
Jun 2, 2025
7 Usage-Based Pricing Tactics: What Snowflake, AWS, and Twilio Actually Do
Jun 2, 2025
Usage-Based Billing: What Actually Drives Revenue Growth
May 13, 2025
Top Billing Platforms Compared: Which One Fits Your Business?
May 8, 2025
Open Source Billing Tools: Customize Your Revenue Engine
May 8, 2025
Usage-Based Billing System: Build It or Buy It?
May 5, 2025
SaaS Usage-Based Billing: Per-Seat, Metered, and Hybrid Models
Apr 30, 2025
The Ultimate Guide to Implementing Usage-Based Billing Models
Apr 30, 2025
Usage-Based Billing for SaaS: How It Actually Works
Apr 23, 2025
Should your SaaS company use usage-based pricing?
Apr 11, 2025
Billing shouldn’t just be PDF generation
Jan 22, 2025
Top 7 Alternatives to Zuora for usage-based Billing
Nov 19, 2024
Top 7 Stripe Billing Alternatives for Usage-Based Billing (2026)
Nov 1, 2024
Top 7 Alternatives to Recurly for usage-based Billing
Nov 1, 2024
Top 7 Alternatives to Chargebee for usage-based Billing
Nov 1, 2024
Why QA matters: Demystifying the 'QA-Free' philosophy
Oct 18, 2024
Dynamic Pricing: Capture Usage for Variable Rates
Oct 16, 2024
How open can Stripe be?
Oct 16, 2024
Why is calculating Stripe MRR so difficult?
Oct 17, 2023
Strategies for pricing software products in a down market
Aug 24, 2023
Refunds, Coupons & Credit Notes: why they are different
Aug 16, 2023
8 things to consider when choosing your billing system
Jun 28, 2023
Time Zones in Billing: Why Getting This Wrong Costs Real Money
May 22, 2023
Bill your customers in their timezone, not yours
Jan 24, 2023
5 essential billing features for BaaS companies
Oct 26, 2022
Which pricing model should you choose?
Oct 17, 2022
The 4 biggest problems with homemade billing systems
Sep 22, 2022
Does Stripe use Stripe Billing to bill its customers?
Aug 29, 2022
Why billing is not just 'Build' or 'Buy'
Aug 17, 2022
Why Heroku-like pricing models are hard to build
Aug 8, 2022
Stripe's 21 Products: What They Actually Cost (Full Fee Breakdown)
Jul 21, 2022
Cash collection automation
Jun 30, 2022
Sales compensation software
Jun 20, 2022
Comparison of the best CPQ software
Jun 13, 2022
Payment Gateways
May 23, 2022
Why B2B billing is hard
May 18, 2022
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The Monetization Academy covers the billing decisions most teams get wrong, and how to get them right. Playbooks for engineering and finance.
