Pricing & MonetizationBy 2027, every AI company will need a billing engineer. Most don't know it yet.Anh-Tho Chuong•Jul 29•4 min read
Pricing & MonetizationWhy Stripe may pay $10B for a router everyone is buildingAnh-Tho Chuong•Jul 27•3 min read
Pricing & MonetizationLago vs Orb: Open-Source Billing vs a Billing Specialist Now Inside AdyenAnh-Tho Chuong•Jul 21•6 min read
Pricing & MonetizationLago vs Metronome: Open-Source Billing vs an Enterprise Usage-Billing Specialist Now Inside StripeAnh-Tho Chuong•Jul 21•6 min read
Pricing & MonetizationLago vs Stripe Billing: Feature Comparison, Pricing, and Open-Source AdvantagesAnh-Tho Chuong•Jul 20•5 min read
Pricing & MonetizationEnterprise SaaS Billing: What You Actually Need (2026)Anh-Tho Chuong•Jul 6•3 min read
Pricing & MonetizationLago vs Chargebee: Open-Source Billing vs a Subscription-First SuiteAnh-Tho Chuong•Jul 2•5 min read
Pricing & MonetizationLago vs Zuora: Open-Source Billing vs an Enterprise RevRec SuiteAnh-Tho Chuong•Jul 2•5 min read
Pricing & MonetizationSelf-hosted billing: When it works and how to do itAnh-Tho Chuong•Jul 1•6 min read
Pricing & MonetizationB2B SaaS Subscription Management: Best Practices and StrategiesAnh-Tho Chuong•Jun 23•5 min read
Pricing & MonetizationUnderstanding the Pay-as-You-Go Pricing Model for SaaS BusinessesAnh-Tho Chuong•Jun 1•5 min read
Pricing & MonetizationSaaS Cancellation Flows: Reduce Churn at the Exit PointAnh-Tho Chuong•Mar 17•8 min read
Pricing & MonetizationBilling Audit Trails: Immutable Logs, Compliance, ForensicsAnh-Tho Chuong•Mar 17•7 min read
Pricing & MonetizationReal-Time Billing: Stream Processing, Event Sourcing, CQRSAnh-Tho Chuong•Mar 17•7 min read
Pricing & MonetizationBilling System Scalability: Horizontal Scaling, Sharding, Multi-TenancyAnh-Tho Chuong•Mar 17•7 min read
Pricing & MonetizationBilling Disaster Recovery: Backup, RPO/RTO, and FailoverAnh-Tho Chuong•Mar 9•8 min read
Pricing & MonetizationBilling Webhook Reliability: Idempotency and RetriesAnh-Tho Chuong•Mar 9•8 min read
Pricing & MonetizationKYC and AML for Fintech Billing: Implementation GuideAnh-Tho Chuong•Mar 9•7 min read
Pricing & MonetizationAudit-Grade Billing Accuracy: Requirements and TestingAnh-Tho Chuong•Mar 9•7 min read
Pricing & MonetizationDimensional Pricing in Cloud Infrastructure: A Technical FrameworkAnh-Tho Chuong•Mar 9•7 min read
Pricing & MonetizationRating Engine Architecture: From Raw Events to Billable AmountsAnh-Tho Chuong•Mar 3•12 min read
Pricing & MonetizationEvent Ingestion Architecture: Building Reliable Metering PipelinesAnh-Tho Chuong•Mar 3•8 min read
Pricing & MonetizationSubscription Analytics: Cohort Analysis, LTV, and Retention MetricsAnh-Tho Chuong•Mar 3•14 min read
Pricing & MonetizationChurn Prediction Models: A Technical Guide for SaaSAnh-Tho Chuong•Mar 3•13 min read
Pricing & MonetizationRevOps for SaaS: Building a Revenue Operations Function in 2026Anh-Tho Chuong•Mar 3•11 min read
Pricing & MonetizationProration in SaaS Billing: Calculations and Edge CasesAnh-Tho Chuong•Feb 23•8 min read
Pricing & MonetizationRevenue Leakage in SaaS: How Billing Gaps Cost 1-5% of ARRAnh-Tho Chuong•Feb 23•7 min read
Pricing & MonetizationBilling Tax Automation: Sales Tax, VAT, and Global ComplianceAnh-Tho Chuong•Feb 23•9 min read
Pricing & MonetizationSelf-Hosted vs. Cloud Billing: Data Sovereignty for Regulated IndustriesAnh-Tho Chuong•Feb 23•10 min read
Pricing & MonetizationFintech Billing: Multi-Currency, Real-Time Settlement, and ComplianceAnh-Tho Chuong•Feb 23•11 min read
Pricing & MonetizationHow to Choose a Billing Platform: A Buyer's Framework for 2026Anh-Tho Chuong•Feb 23•7 min read
Pricing & MonetizationDunning Management: How to Recover Failed Payments Without Losing CustomersAnh-Tho Chuong•Feb 23•9 min read
Pricing & MonetizationHow Billing Drives Product-Led Growth: From Free Tier to EnterpriseAnh-Tho Chuong•Feb 23•8 min read
Pricing & MonetizationHow to Run Pricing Experiments Without Breaking Your Billing SystemAnh-Tho Chuong•Feb 20•5 min read
Pricing & MonetizationMarketplace Billing: Revenue Splits, Partner Payouts, and Multi-Party InvoicingAnh-Tho Chuong•Feb 20•7 min read
Startup StoriesWhy Stripe paid $1B for Metronome instead of fixing BillingAnh-Tho Chuong•Feb 14•8 min read
Pricing & MonetizationBilling Observability: Monitoring, Alerts, and Metrics for Revenue OperationsAnh-Tho Chuong•Feb 13•5 min read
Pricing & MonetizationHow to set pricing metrics for usage-based and AI SaaSAnh-Tho Chuong•Jan 26•4 min read
Pricing & Monetization7 billing models you need to know if you work on pricingAnh-Tho Chuong•Sep 30, 2025•6 min read
Pricing & MonetizationWhat's the best billing system for GovTech companies?Anh-Tho Chuong•Sep 19, 2025•5 min read
Pricing & MonetizationBilling Compliance: GDPR, PCI DSS, and ASC 606 ExplainedAnh-Tho Chuong•Sep 19, 2025•4 min read
Pricing & MonetizationAir gapped billing system: What it is, how it works and how to build oneAnh-Tho Chuong•Sep 19, 2025•4 min read
Pricing & MonetizationWhat is revenue forecasting and how does it work?Anh-Tho Chuong•Sep 8, 2025•6 min read
Pricing & MonetizationHow to Evaluate a Billing System: Questions to Ask Before You CommitAnh-Tho Chuong•Sep 8, 2025•4 min read
Pricing & MonetizationWhat are feature entitlements and how do they work?Anh-Tho Chuong•Sep 1, 2025•6 min read
Pricing & MonetizationMetered Billing for Cloud Infrastructure: How It Actually WorksAnh-Tho Chuong•Aug 25, 2025•6 min read
Pricing & MonetizationThe Complete Guide to Accrued Revenue for SaaS CompaniesAnh-Tho Chuong•Aug 25, 2025•10 min read
Pricing & MonetizationBookings vs. Billings in SaaS: Complete GuideAnh-Tho Chuong•Aug 25, 2025•18 min read
Pricing & MonetizationTelecom billing: Best practices and systems to useAnh-Tho Chuong•Aug 18, 2025•6 min read
Pricing & MonetizationWhat Is The Van Westendorp Pricing Model And How Does It Work?Anh-Tho Chuong•Aug 18, 2025•6 min read
Pricing & MonetizationWhat is value-based pricing and how does it work?Anh-Tho Chuong•Aug 11, 2025•6 min read
Pricing & MonetizationWhat is freemium pricing in SaaS and how does it work?Anh-Tho Chuong•Aug 6, 2025•5 min read
Pricing & MonetizationFull playbook: How to architect billing systems to power usage-based pricingAnh-Tho Chuong•Aug 5, 2025•9 min read
Pricing & MonetizationUsage-Based Pricing: The Implementation PlaybookAnh-Tho Chuong•Aug 5, 2025•10 min read
Pricing & MonetizationPricing psychology: SaaS pricing strategies that make users buyAnh-Tho Chuong•Aug 1, 2025•6 min read
Pricing & MonetizationShould you build or buy usage-based billing?Anh-Tho Chuong•Aug 1, 2025•6 min read
Pricing & MonetizationBest AI Billing Software for Small BusinessesAnh-Tho Chuong•Jul 29, 2025•5 min read
Pricing & MonetizationUnderstanding Revenue Recognition FundamentalsAnh-Tho Chuong•Jul 3, 2025•4 min read
Pricing & MonetizationIFRS 15 for SaaS: Revenue Recognition and Multi-Element ContractsAnh-Tho Chuong•Jul 3, 2025•4 min read
Pricing & MonetizationBilling System Software: How It Actually WorksAnh-Tho Chuong•Jul 3, 2025•4 min read
Pricing & MonetizationUsage-Based Revenue Recognition: ASC 606 ExplainedAnh-Tho Chuong•Jun 26, 2025•4 min read
Pricing & MonetizationSaaS Billing Best Practices: How to Optimize Your B2B Billing ProcessAnh-Tho Chuong•Jun 20, 2025•5 min read
Pricing & MonetizationWhat are hybrid pricing models and how do they work?Anh-Tho Chuong•Jun 13, 2025•5 min read
Pricing & MonetizationHow to monetize APIs: Billing for your API productAnh-Tho Chuong•Jun 13, 2025•3 min read
Pricing & MonetizationWhat are credit-based pricing models and how do they work?Anh-Tho Chuong•Jun 12, 2025•6 min read
Pricing & MonetizationWhat is outcome-based pricing and how does it work?Anh-Tho Chuong•Jun 7, 2025•3 min read
Pricing & MonetizationWhat is consumption-based pricing? And how to implement itAnh-Tho Chuong•Jun 2, 2025•6 min read
Pricing & MonetizationHow to Monetize Developer Tools with Usage-Based BillingAnh-Tho Chuong•Jun 2, 2025•4 min read
AI7 Usage-Based Pricing Tactics: What Snowflake, AWS, and Twilio Actually DoAnh-Tho Chuong•Jun 2, 2025•5 min read
Pricing & MonetizationUsage-Based Billing: What Actually Drives Revenue GrowthAnh-Tho Chuong•May 13, 2025•5 min read
Pricing & MonetizationTop Billing Platforms Compared: Which One Fits Your Business?Anh-Tho Chuong•May 8, 2025•4 min read
Pricing & MonetizationOpen Source Billing Tools: Customize Your Revenue EngineAnh-Tho Chuong•May 8, 2025•6 min read
Pricing & MonetizationUsage-Based Billing System: Build It or Buy It?Anh-Tho Chuong•May 5, 2025•10 min read
Pricing & MonetizationThe Ultimate Guide to Implementing Usage-Based Billing ModelsAnh-Tho Chuong•Apr 30, 2025•5 min read
Pricing & MonetizationSaaS Usage-Based Billing: Per-Seat, Metered, and Hybrid ModelsAnh-Tho Chuong•Apr 30, 2025•5 min read
Pricing & MonetizationUsage-Based Billing for SaaS: How It Actually WorksAnh-Tho Chuong•Apr 23, 2025•5 min read
Pricing & MonetizationShould your SaaS company use usage-based pricing?Anh-Tho Chuong•Apr 11, 2025•7 min read
Pricing & MonetizationTop 7 Alternatives to Zuora for usage-based BillingAnh-Tho Chuong•Nov 19, 2024•9 min read
Pricing & MonetizationTop 7 Alternatives to Recurly for usage-based BillingAnh-Tho Chuong•Nov 1, 2024•8 min read
Pricing & MonetizationTop 7 Alternatives to Chargebee for usage-based BillingAnh-Tho Chuong•Nov 1, 2024•8 min read
Pricing & MonetizationTop 7 Stripe Billing Alternatives for Usage-Based Billing (2026)Anh-Tho Chuong•Nov 1, 2024•5 min read
Pricing & MonetizationWhy QA matters: Demystifying the 'QA-Free' philosophyAnh-Tho Chuong•Oct 18, 2024•5 min read
Pricing & MonetizationDynamic Pricing: Capture Usage for Variable RatesAnh-Tho Chuong•Oct 16, 2024•3 min read
Pricing & MonetizationWhy is calculating Stripe MRR so difficult?Anh-Tho Chuong•Oct 17, 2023•10 min read
Pricing & MonetizationStrategies for pricing software products in a down marketAnh-Tho Chuong•Aug 24, 2023•5 min read
Pricing & MonetizationRefunds, Coupons & Credit Notes: why they are differentAnh-Tho Chuong•Aug 16, 2023•4 min read
Pricing & Monetization8 things to consider when choosing your billing systemAnh-Tho Chuong•Jun 28, 2023•5 min read
Pricing & MonetizationTime Zones in Billing: Why Getting This Wrong Costs Real MoneyAnh-Tho Chuong•May 22, 2023•5 min read
Pricing & MonetizationBill your customers in their timezone, not yoursAnh-Tho Chuong•Jan 24, 2023•2 min read
Pricing & Monetization5 essential billing features for BaaS companiesAnh-Tho Chuong•Oct 26, 2022•4 min read
Pricing & MonetizationThe 4 biggest problems with homemade billing systemsAnh-Tho Chuong•Sep 22, 2022•5 min read
Pricing & MonetizationDoes Stripe use Stripe Billing to bill its customers?Anh-Tho Chuong•Aug 29, 2022•6 min read
Pricing & MonetizationWhy Heroku-like pricing models are hard to buildAnh-Tho Chuong•Aug 8, 2022•4 min read
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