The Challenge of Monitoring a Billing Platform Monitoring a billing platform in production is different from running most other software systems: Standard observability tools —...
Stéphane Brossier
AI Usage Billing Made Simple with Kill Bill and Aviate
AI-based products introduce new billing challenges. Whether selling token usage, inference time, or API calls, providers must manage metering, prepaid credits, invoicing, and payments —...
Kill Bill Platform: Open Source, Open Data, Open Architecture
When you look at the marketing slides for various SaaS billing software, you usually see colorful charts with checkmarks and Xs, similar to this feature comparison of the Kill Bill...
Subscription Product Catalog: Versioning, Price Changes, and Pricing Overrides
This is the final blog post in a three-part series about the subscription product catalog. Here’s what we covered in the previous two blog posts: In Part 1, we went over the basics: ...
A Subscription Product Catalog That’s Future-Proof
This is Part 2 in a three-part series about the subscription product catalog. (Here you can read Part 1 and Part 3.) Last month our blog post covered the foundation for a flexible...
International Recurring Billing & Payments: What You Need to Know
If your organization has mastered international recurring billing, then you may already know about the challenges associated with setting this up—that is, if you’ve worked in finance,...
Usage-Based Model for Billing: Basic to Complex
We regularly get questions from those interested in Kill Bill's ability to handle the usage-based model for billing. Usually these queries are from folks who work in telecommunications and...
Customize Recurring Billing and Invoicing Software with Plugins
Kill Bill open-source software has all the basic features needed for recurring billing and invoicing as well as subscription management and payments. However, Kill Bill is so extensible...
Recurring Billing for Enterprises: Kill Bill Does That
This month we take a look at common concerns with enterprise open-source software (OSS) and how those concerns apply to Kill Bill. Those who are looking for recurring billing software at...
The Pitfalls of a SaaS Billing and Payments Solution
A SaaS billing and payments solution isn't right for all organizations, especially those with complex billing needs. Pierre and I are the co-creators of an open-source billing and payment...