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Insights and innovations in quoting, subscription billing, and revenue recognition.

Introducing Zeppa, the Easy Way to Create Quote Customizations in Subskribe

Introducing Zeppa, the Easy Way to Create Quote Customizations in Subskribe

Announcing Zeppa, a native coding language that makes it easy for you to customize Subskribe to suit your unique quoting needs.

By
Subbu Nagarajan

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Why Customers Love Subskribe
Quote-to-Revenue

Why Customers Love Subskribe

At Subskribe, we are inspired to make hard things easy for customers. Discerning customers can see that, and they love the customer obsession we bring to every interaction. So why do customers love Subskribe so much? Here’s a list of the reasons we hear most frequently.
By
Durga Pandey
Consumption-based Pricing: 4 Reasons You Should Think Twice
Quote-to-Revenue

Consumption-based Pricing: 4 Reasons You Should Think Twice

When it comes to choosing the right pricing model for your business, that golden rule holds true. You’ve heard plenty about SaaS companies evolving their pricing models from a subscription-based model to a consumption-based one. Regardless of whether your competitors are making the change or you’re simply caught up in the hype, the decision comes down to the impact on your revenue. But switching to a consumption-based model isn’t necessarily the right decision for every business. 
By
Patrick Chen
Best Practices for Consumption-based Pricing
Quote-to-Revenue

Best Practices for Consumption-based Pricing

While the consumption-based pricing model has gone mainstream, many companies are still in the early stages of evaluation. Whether you’re evaluating or testing, our primer can help determine if this approach is right for your business, highlighting the benefits and challenges it brings to the table.
By
Patrick Chen
Leveraging Postgres Advisory Locks for Distributed Consensus
Engineering

Leveraging Postgres Advisory Locks for Distributed Consensus

At Subskribe, we solve pretty hard engineering problems. One such hard problem is mutual exclusion of invoice generation. This blog post is the story of how we achieved this without spending a lot of engineering hours by utilizing the technologies at our disposal.
By
Subbu Nagarajan
Accelerating Development with Feature Flags
Engineering

Accelerating Development with Feature Flags

At Subskribe our velocity of feature development is high. Our development philosophy follows the model of Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD). Ideally, when releasing a feature to a specific stage of our environment, we want to isolate that release from the release of any other feature. This enables us to make functionality available only when it has cleared our quality bar. To facilitate this isolation we recently introduced Feature Flags into our environment, leveraging the AppConfig service from AWS.
By
Tim Bradley
Making the Case for an End-to-End Framework for SaaS Revenue Recognition
Quote-to-Revenue

Making the Case for an End-to-End Framework for SaaS Revenue Recognition

The speed and complexity of modern subscription deals have simply outpaced the traditional quote-to-cash tools that the software industry grew up with. Given the almost limitless combinations of contracts involving various products, terms, entitlements, and revenue recognition schedules, complications often arise as to when revenue can be recognized. Recognizing SaaS revenue is even trickier under rapidly changing market conditions and is particularly complicated when contracts get updated over the course of their term. 
By
Prakash Raina
The Large Hidden Costs Of Using A Patched-Together Quote-To-Revenue System
Quote-to-Revenue

The Large Hidden Costs Of Using A Patched-Together Quote-To-Revenue System

Too many companies fall into the best-of-breed trap of buying and patching together separate CPQ, billing, and revenue recognition systems. On the one hand, sales ops teams are tasked with evaluating, buying, and running the CPQ system, which is responsible for creating and managing quotes.
By
Durga Pandey
Adaptive CPQ Is Mandatory for Today’s SaaS Businesses
Quote-to-Revenue

Adaptive CPQ Is Mandatory for Today’s SaaS Businesses

If you’re a growing SaaS company, your pricing model is likely to be straightforward for SMB customers (e.g., $100 a month) but more sophisticated for larger enterprises. In today’s world, however, CPQ in action is much more complex with a number of variables to consider, especially as it relates to products and technology. 
By
Durga Pandey
Announcing Revenue Recognition
Product News

Announcing Revenue Recognition

Today we’re announcing the launch of our Revenue Recognition module, which completes the last pillar of the Subskribe quote-to-revenue platform. From day one, our promise to customers has been to provide a single, unified end-to-end system and we’re delighted to fulfill this promise today. 
By
Yibin Guo
A New Foundation for Post-Subscription SaaS
Quote-to-Revenue

A New Foundation for Post-Subscription SaaS

In a typical quote-to-revenue system, everything starts with the quote. In Subskribe, everything starts with the order. Almost like commits log in a database, orders in Subskribe record all the changes — and upcoming changes — in the financial relationship between a company and its customer.
By
Prakash Raina
The Post-Subscription Era
Quote-to-Revenue

The Post-Subscription Era

Until about a decade ago, software was sold using a license model. Think about buying Microsoft Word. You paid once and received lifetime access to that version of the software. Major updates, like the upgrade from Word 97 to Word 2000, cost extra.
By
Durga Pandey
A New Day for New Deals
Company News

A New Day for New Deals

Today we’re publicly launching Subskribe, and announcing our Series A and Seed funding led by 8VC and Slow Ventures. Subskribe is the Adaptive Quote-to-Revenue platform for the Post Subscription Era.
By
Durga Pandey

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