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by TomNguy 851 days ago
Have you tried Lago (open source billing)? This is precisely what they do, their HN launch is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34773442 They listed the billing engineering nightmares too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31424450
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We looked into them. Unfortunately they’re very expensive.
Lago co-founder here, although we have an Enterprise plan (which, by definition, is for Enterprises), we invest considerable resources in the open-source and free product, used by a lot of early stage companies/bootstrapped projects, let me know if we can be helpful.
I’m referring to the Premium Plan. We are not an enterprise but need a lot of the features offered at that tier, stuff that I feel most businesses need like credit notes and invoices sent by email.
I feel that a pricing product should have more transparent pricing. All the more amusing given that you host a Stripe fee calculator.
'fair pricing' yet no actual, you know, pricing, was such a red flag I didn't even ask for a quote.

It's a massive shame that simple table stakes features are behind "get a quote". Folks, I'm not even sure this makes good business sense; just charge me 0.5% of revenue for premium and set enterprise up as 'get a quote' with enterprise features or 1M revenue plus.