Kill Bill Blog
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 processes. Don’t be shy and fire yours away on our forum! Is your Recurring Billing...
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 customers on a subscription-style arrangement for making purchases, those sales can be...
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 platform, so you're probably not surprised to hear we think this way. We have...
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...