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There are many billing solutions geared toward SaaS providers, but not many for service businesses that bill monthly (at least in the API sense).


Something like Kable perhaps? https://www.kable.io/


No, this looks like a product for companies who sell API access.

Our product is performance-based, rather than unit-based, and there's no exposed API. We would like to have a detailed itemized invoice (think a phone bill). Our options are build from scratch or shoe-horn existing solutions. It'd be nice to not have to reinvent the wheel and also keep our customers within our UI.


How many items are we talking about on an average invoice?


https://www.tryaqueduct.com/

It has a concept of percentage-based billing where you can specify an input amount and you can specify to bill a percentage of that and handles generating a detailed invoice.


https://www.tryaqueduct.com/docs is broken

Whenever there's no pricing it immediately says "not for me, move on". Maybe that's your intention!


Do you mean a billing service that connects to some internal project/time tracking software and automatically builds and sends an invoice?


No. I'm talking about service that is performance-based, rather than time or cost based.


Could you elaborate please?


Our product is performance-based, rather than unit-based, and there's no exposed API. We would like to have a detailed itemized invoice (think a phone bill). Our options are build from scratch or shoe-horn existing solutions. It'd be nice to not have to reinvent the wheel and also keep our customers within our UI.


Could you provide some examples of performance-based billable services?


Our company audits shipping invoices and bills the customer based on a percentage of what we save them. It's a common business model outside of the tech/SaaS landscape (utility bills, property taxes, etc)


I guess there's a lot of complexity I'm missing. Is it something like this:

1. Customer original bill (variable - user provided) e.g. 100

2. Saving (variable - user provided) e.g. 9

3. Saving percentage (calculated) e.g. 9%

4. Billed Percentage (variable based on savings percentage?) e.g. 25% x 9

So you would have a billed percentage "rate card" that depends on variable factors like the customer bill plan, the amount/percentage saved etc? Is that the tricky bit?


metronome.com


It's closer than I've seen elsewhere, but not quite there. There isn't a good way to predefine what they consider "billable metrics" for the use case I'm considering.




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