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The Cart System: Core Products with Add-Ons Done Right
Traditional billing forces a choice between fragmented subscriptions or monolithic bundles. The cart system lets customers build their own bundle from your product catalogue.
Why Letting Customers Pay Less Makes More Money
Customers don't fit neatly into pricing tiers. Tailored plans mean less revenue than a full upgrade—but far more than a cancellation.
Grantee Groups: Team Subscriptions Done Right
Per-seat pricing gets complicated when the person paying isn't the person using. Grantee groups model the relationship between billing owners, access recipients, and team membership explicitly.
Stripe Webhooks Without the Pain: How Salable Handles the Hard Parts
Production webhook handling is a reliability engineering problem. Duplicate events, out-of-order delivery, retries, failed event handling—Salable's infrastructure handles these edge cases so you don't debug lost subscriptions at 2 AM.
Multi-Currency Support: Sell Globally from Day One
Currency conversion fees and foreign pricing create friction for international customers. Learn how to configure intentional local pricing that signals you've built for their market.
Choosing Your First Pricing Model: Flat-Rate vs. Per-Seat vs. Usage-Based
How do your customers measure the value they get from your product? If they value predictability, flat-rate wins. If value scales with team size, per-seat makes sense. If usage varies wildly, metering aligns revenue with outcomes.
Introducing Tiered Pricing: Volume Discounts Made Simple
Stop managing volume discounts in spreadsheets. Learn how tiered pricing automates discount calculations, the difference between graduated and volume tiers, and how to design tier structures that reward growth.
Line Items: Build Any Pricing Model from Composable Parts
Most billing systems force you to choose one pricing model. Line items let you combine flat-rate, per-seat, metered, and one-off charges into plans that reflect how customers actually use your product.
Introducing Salable Beta: Build the Pricing Model Your Business Actually Needs
Most billing platforms force you to choose: flat-rate or usage-based, per-seat or metered. Salable Beta removes that constraint with composable Line Items that combine any charge types within a single plan.
The Hidden Cost of "Simple" Pricing
"Keep it simple" is sound pricing advice—especially when starting out. But the flat rate that launched you rarely stays optimal as you grow. Here's how to know when simple pricing stops serving you.
Your First Subscription Product: From Zero to Revenue in an Afternoon
Most developers overthink their first billing implementation, spending weeks on edge cases before earning their first dollar. This guide walks through launching a complete subscription product in hours by focusing on the critical path.