Kill Bill Blog
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 all of the decisions and considerations you have to make about pricing, we hope...
8 Ways to Charge Subscribers: Tools of the Trade
One of the most crucial elements of starting a business is deciding how to charge customers. Even if you already have a subscription method for your organization (and are already familiar with the ways to charge subscribers), it's good to revisit these concepts...
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 service's start and end dates (or pause and resume dates) along with specifics about...
Should Your Business Use an Account Updater? Find Out…
Is an account updater right for your organization? It's something you should consider if you are concerned about failed credit card transactions. An account updater adds another tool to your arsenal to help minimize failed transactions. How an Account Updater Works...
Kill Bill Cloud Makes Subscription Billing Testing Easy
Here at Kill Bill, we frequently receive inquiries from both our customers and the broader community about specific Kill Bill behaviors. If the billing day is the 31st, when would the invoice be generated in February? What happens when I change the billing alignment...
Why choose an Open-Source SaaS Billing solution
The Flightpath Team recently published a detailed article on the pros and cons of platforms like Stripe, Chargebee, and Chargify. The author argues that Stripe is best suited if you anticipate having to develop custom logic. If innovating on pricing models and billing...
Deploying KillBill / Kaui on OpenShift
Deploying KillBill / Kaui on OKD (OpenShift) Introduction OKD is the community distribution of Red Hat's OpenShift, which allows for continuous application development and multi-tenant deployments. It is embedded with Kubernetes container cluster management and...
Kill Bill Cloud Billing and Payment Now Available (Release 0.22.x)
We have just released a new version of Kill Bill 0.22.x: Release Notes. Besides introducing our initiatives for cloud billing and payment, we've also been working on improving: Core billing and payment enhancements and bug fixes Ease-of-use for APIs and API...
Announcing Kill Bill release 0.20
We are very pleased to announce the new Kill Bill 0.20.x release train (current version at the time of this blog is 0.20.1). This has been a long cycle and a lot has happened since our 0.18.x release. If anything, comparing the picture we posted when we released...
Kaui updates for 0.20
Over the past year, we continued to invest heavily in Kaui, the Kill Bill Admin UI. While originally it was only used by Customer Support teams, it has now become a swiss army knife for developers, operations, finance teams and product managers. Going through all of...