It would be hard to overstate the recent surging success of subscription services, because businesses have found out that it's a great way to have steady revenue coming in every month, and...
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Why The Subscription Business Model Is Trending Right Now
Today's e-commerce landscape is much different than it was only a few years ago, and that's because it has been impacted in a major way by the subscription economy. Even a few years ago,...
Common Mistakes Organizations Make When Selecting A Billing Platform
It's great to be able to learn from your mistakes, but it's even better to be able to learn from the mistakes of others so that your business is not impacted by them. In a survey of dozens...
Inquiries Series #1: Transactions, Agile Recurring Billing Software, and Currency Talk
The Kill Bill team receives tons of questions, and since we want to answer all the ones we haven’t already tackled in our FAQs, this series aims to shed a light on our features and...
7 Tips for Scaling Your Business with an Open Source Billing Solution
There's no doubt that recurring billing is one of the hottest strategies when it comes to digital products at the moment, and with good reason. Once you've set up a number of your...
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...
6 Tips for Choosing the Right Pricing Model
Choosing the right pricing model is a complex topic for many reasons, but chiefly because the pricing model you define must be unique to your business. While a single blog post can't cover...
Two Aspects of SaaS Entitlement Management: Access and Billing
Entitlement in the SaaS industry provides the answer to the question: Is the user allowed (entitled) to use this service or product at a given time? It provides information about the...
Moving Towards a Flexible Catalog
Back in the days, when we started the design for Kill Bill, some of the first discussions we had were centered around catalog (definition of products, prices, behavior associated to each...
Kill Bill: Billing System Architecture
This post is a high level description of the architecture of Kill Bill as a billing system. The intent is to describe briefly the various core components and how they interact with one...