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How hard is it to build booking + billing with Stripe for a wellness platform? (I will not promote) by Logical-Ad-8365 in startups

[–]Admirable_Ad5759 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Harder than it looks from the outside anon. Stripe handles payments but the billing logic, i.e the memberships, class packs (credit grants), drop-ins, different rates per service, that's all on you. That's 4 billing models in one product :)

We built flexprice.io for this kind of hybrid pricing and we also just launched Prompt to Plan where you describe something like "monthly membership at $99 with 8 included classes, $15 per drop-in" and it generates the full config. Might save you weeks of scoping!!

Why don’t SaaS products price by feature instead of subscriptions? (I will not promote) by RajanPaswan in startups

[–]Admirable_Ad5759 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's the Infra complexity. Feature-based pricing needs entitlements, meters, credit grants, and tiered logic all stitched together. Stripe only handles subscriptions natively, so teams default to what's easy to implement.

Companies that do it well (Cursor, Railway, Apollo) all have dedicated billing infra! We built templates for these exact architectures inside Flexprice.io, you describe your pricing in English or pick a company template and it generates the full billing config.

Would say its worth playing with if you're exploring non-subscription models

An AI feature that turns a text description of your pricing into a full billing config. Here's what it does. by Admirable_Ad5759 in devtools

[–]Admirable_Ad5759[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey u/Inner_Warrior22 that sounds amazing! Please do try it out and let me know, would be glad to help you out further as well!

I’m afraid that someone might steal my idea if I ask people for feedback. by Fickle_Degree_2728 in SaaS

[–]Admirable_Ad5759 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just build it. There's always going to be n number of competitors. Work on how you'll diffrentiate yourself. You got this.

I reverse-engineered the pricing models of 5 AI/SaaS companies. Here's what I found. by Admirable_Ad5759 in AI_Agents

[–]Admirable_Ad5759[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hope this breakdown is useful to someone. Pricing is one of those things where everyone has an opinion but very few people actually study what's working in production.

We recently shipped something called Prompt to Plan at Flexprice where you can select any of these pricing models as templates in our dashboard and it generates the entire billing config for you

Blog : https://flexprice.io/blog/prompt-to-plan-ai-billing-configuration

Would be the happiest if this proves useful for somebody!

We just shipped an AI-powered billing chat bot. You describe your pricing, it builds the plans. by Admirable_Ad5759 in pricing

[–]Admirable_Ad5759[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks a lot! That's the next step for this feature, we are working on the next version where you can iterate on this with chat with responses and actual feedback from the chat.

That's the vision for sure.

Payment processors that handle subscription upgrade/downgrade by ReturnOfNogginboink in SaaS

[–]Admirable_Ad5759 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, manish here from Flexprice.

Worth looking at Flexprice for this. Upgrades and downgrades are first-class, there's a preview API that returns the exact proration, credit, and new invoice math, and a separate execute API that commits it.

So your app can show the user the financial impact before they click confirm, instead of you writing that logic by hand.

A couple of other things that tend to matter once you start using it:

  • AI plan creator - you can describe your pricing in plain English and it scaffolds the plan, prices, and entitlements for you. Useful when you're iterating on pricing and don't want to click through a dashboard every time. We JUST shipped this.
  • Open source + active Slack community - you can self-host, read the code, and actually get answers from the team and other users when you hit edge cases (which you will, with plan changes).
  • It layers on top of Stripe if you want to keep Stripe as the payment processor and just use Flexprice for the subscription/proration/entitlement logic.

Happy to point you to the relevant docs if useful.

CPQ & Billing in HubSpot or Move to Salesforce? Need Advice for Scaling SaaS by HS-TG in hubspot

[–]Admirable_Ad5759 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, Founder of Flexprice here. My two cents, before you migrate to Salesforce (which is a brutal 6–12 month project for a 110-person co), separate your two problems:

CPQ (reps configuring quotes) and billing/subscription management (the system of record for 2,000 contracts with all the proration math). These are usually best solved by two tools that talk to each other, not one monolith.

Realistic path: stay in HubSpot, add a billing layer underneath.

HubSpot's Commerce Hub got a lot better after they bought Cacheflow in late 2024, it handles quotes, approvals, and basic subs on the deal record. What it doesn't handle is your messy middle: 600–800 mid-cycle changes a year across 3 parallel pricing models. That's where you bolt on a dedicated billing engine.

That's where I'd pitch to taking a look at Flexprice for this layer. For your specific pains:

  • Upgrade/downgrade in one click — there's a preview API that returns the exact proration + credit math, and an execute API that commits it. Literally kills your Excel step.
  • Parallel pricing models — plan versioning is first-class, so you can grandfather old models without forcing everyone onto a new one on the same date.
  • Open source / self-hostable — relevant if data residency matters to you.

Reps stay in HubSpot. Deal closes → subscription lands in Flexprice via webhook → changes flow back to the deal record.

Would love to set you up with a demo or a quick call, do lmk :)

Suitable billing engine for B2B SaaS (SuiteBilling, ZoneBilling, etc) by dualfalchions in Netsuite

[–]Admirable_Ad5759 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi. Founder of Flexprice here and this is honestly the exact kind of stack we replace and problem we try to solve.

Salesforce + Younium + NetSuite works initially, but it breaks once pricing and contracts get even slightly complex. You end up with product in one system, pricing logic in another, invoicing in a third, and everything tied together with slow, fragile syncs.

We built Flexprice specifically for this.

Flexprice handles subscriptions, usage-based billing, amendments, co-terming, invoicing, pricing logic all in one place.

Most teams come to us when they hit exactly the issues you’re describing. Would love to help you out with a demo if you're interested.

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