Ryan from Schematic shows how the platform handles pricing and packaging for SaaS. It abstracts plan logic from code so feature access updates without engineering changes, tracks usage-based billing automatically, and simplifies trial creation for new and existing customers.
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Hi, I'm Ryan, a developer with Schematic, and I want to talk about 3 ways that Schematic makes it quick and easy to launch and manage pricing and packaging. First, Schematic makes it easy to figure out whether or not a feature should be enabled based off which plan a user has. In this example, we have a feature called single sign-on, and all of our paid plans have access to single sign-on, but our free plan doesn't. In your product, this is just like a simple feature flag check. Schematic does the hard part of figuring out the user and their plan and determining whether or not they should have access to the feature. Additionally, as your pricing and packaging changes and evolves, all of that management happens in Schematic, and your engineers will never need to make changes in your product to support pricing and packaging changes. Second, Schematic is built for usage-based billing. Schematic makes it easy to allow different plans to grant different amounts of access to some of your key features, And Schematic handles all of the hard work of tracking that usage and determining whether a user is within or outside of their plan's limits. Just like before, this works like a simple feature flag check, except Schematic has done the hard work of tracking that usage and determining whether or not a user is within their plan's limits. The third thing that Schematic makes easy is trials, whether that's trials for your free customers to entice them into a paid plan, or for your already paying customers, offering them a trial of your higher level plans. Schematic makes it quick and easy for you to set up trials, allow customers to see the full value of your product, and drive more revenue. And there you have it. Those are the 3 ways that Schematic makes it quick and easy for teams to roll out new pricing and drive more revenue. Thanks.
