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1,528 items in 12 lists
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How to save money on your AWS bill threadreaderapp.com
“The biggest cost savings there are: 1. Turning things off that you're not using; 2. Then spot instances; 3. Then reserved instances.”
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Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to sidestep legal orders theguardian.com
Invoicing of random fees with coded amounts were used as a hidden signal to bypass legal obligations. Maybe that's why you need a flexible billing system after all.
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source techemails.com
) - Google's Product Director take on building billing systems: you need a certain kind of engineers to tackle that domain. It is not for everyone.
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Subscription-based pricing is dead: Smart SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based models techcrunch.com
Usage-based pricing is more optimal and more fair: it “allows a customer to start at a low cost, minimizing friction to getting started while still preserving the ability to monetize a customer over time”.
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The humble receipt gets a brilliant redesign susielu.com
When a Netflix data engineer revisit receipts.
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Strong Customer Authentication stripe.com
Payment Services Directive 2, explained.
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Pricing low-touch SaaS stripe.com
“In low-touch SaaS, the most common way packages are presented are as different columns in a pricing grid, with each column corresponding to a plan, offered at a different price, with differential access to features or maximum allowable usage along some axis interesting to the…
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Streamlined Sales Tax Governing Board streamlinedsalestax.org
A multi-states US initiative to automate and standadize sales tax accounting and collection.
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Entitlements untangled: The modern way to software monetization stigg.io
“The concept of Entitlements encapsulates the feature access settings under various product variants (aka Pricing Plans or Packages), bridging the gap between how a product is sold and how it behaves for a variant. In essence, entitlements are a set of permissions defining what…
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Startup financial models - 12 templates compared for SaaS stephnass.com
A great source of inspiration to get better visibility in your operations.
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History of Spot Instances spot.rackspace.com
From AWS's original auction-based market (2009-2017) to provider-managed pricing across all major clouds today. Documents how transparent bidding was replaced by opaque algorithms.
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EU's Late Payment Directive single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu
European rules on applicable fees for late payments.
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Pricing of Service in Clouds: Optimal Response and Strategic Interactions sigmetrics.org
“How should the consumer modulate its demand to optimize its profits? (…) How should the provider and consumer negotiate the specific pricing structure they will employ?” Covers non-linear models, tiered pricing, elastic demand, consumer et provider strategies.
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Quantity discounts on a virtual good: The results of a massive pricing experiment sci-hub.st
“Implementing price reductions ranging from 9–70% for large purchases, we found remarkably little impact on revenue, either positively or negatively.” If discounts are a placebo and are still widely used in the industry, maybe they are a marketing hack to lure big customers?
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Triple‐entry accounting with Blockchain: How far have we come? sci-hub.st
“Triple‐entry accounting is a new and a more efficient way to address fundamental trust and transparency issues that plague current accounting systems. Triple‐entry accounting with Blockchain, when properly implemented, can fundamentally improve accounting.”
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The Anatomy of SaaS Pricing Strategy sbigrowth.com
Explain how to articulate the pricing of SaaS businesses around the product strategy.
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SaaS pricing explorer saaspricingexplorer.hyperline.co
A collection of 1000+ pricing pages for inspiration.
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Fraud in Telephony Networks s3.eurecom.fr
Most of telephony frauds gravitates around billing and the metering of micro-transactions. This paper feature a taxonomy (on page 6) differentiating the root causes, vulnerabilities, exploitation techniques, and the way fraudsters can benefits from them.
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AWS EC2 T2 Instances Demystified: Don't Learn The Hard Way roberttisdale.com
An example of really tricky burstable instances which accrues and limits its own amount of CPU usage credits.
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Business Model Patterns reasonstreet.co
A list of 15 different ways to sell products and services.
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Why I Love Usage-Based Pricing rdegges.com
“The most important reason I like this pricing model is that it heavily incentivizes both the customer and the service provider to act in everyone's best interest.” Also details issues with other pricing models.
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Pricing pages design pricingpages.design
A collection of pricing pages from various SaaS companies, to get inspiration on how to present your offers.
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Practical Business Python pbpython.com
A blog collecting and spreading ideas on how to use Python more effectively in the business setting.
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Incentive Engineering for Computational Resource Management papers.agoric.com
Paper exploring the “mechanisms for the allocation of processor time and storage that are compatible both with programming practice and with market mechanisms.”
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Forecasting: Principles and Practice otexts.com
“Comprehensive introduction to forecasting methods and to present enough information about each method for readers to be able to use them sensibly.”
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OpenTimestamps opentimestamps.org
Go beyond the solution above, and timestamp immutable document directly on Bitcoin's blockchain.
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Algebraic Models for Accounting Systems openlibrary.org
Advanced abstract algebra applied to the analysis of accounting systems.
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Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs: What You Really Need to Know About the Numbers openlibrary.org
Allows you to fully understand how to use financial data to make better decisions for your business.
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Accounts Demystified: The Astonishingly Simple Guide To Accounting openlibrary.org
Helps you learn how to analyse and monitor your company's financial performance.
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Open IBAN openiban.com
🆓 Free and public IBAN validation and calculation webservice.
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Accounting Memento For Entrepreneurs (US GAAP) odoo.com
An interactive form to play with accounting concepts.
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Pricing Psychology nickkolenda.com
Which numbers should you use? How high should it be? Should it be rounded? This guide has 42 tricks to help you choose the best price.
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19 Tactics to Solve the Chicken-or-Egg Problem and Grow Your Marketplace nfx.com
“Which comes first, the supply or the demand? Chicken or egg?”
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GCP Preemptible VMs vs AWS Spot Instances news.ycombinator.com
“Google's prices are fixed, whereas AWS uses a market model”.
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What does the "Reverse Charge" refer to? news.ycombinator.com
Answer: a provision in which a business transfer the responsibility of VAT handling to the customer.
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) - Mechanical Turk's rake was “20% (…) on the reward and bonus amount”, with a minimum fee of $0.01 per bonus payment, so a 7-cent bonus is billed one cent instead of 1.4: an effective 14.3% instead of 20%. The requester's round_payment() snaps every payout onto the 5-cent…
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Method to check if you swapped 2 digits news.ycombinator.com
Standard manual accounting trick employed when isolating an error in a double ledger.
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) - Google Ads used to implement a concept of capped actuals. A kind of monthly budget with rollover, which is an optimal billing scheme to limit surprises for customers. It always looked to me as a way to sell quotas.
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) - The direct filiation between old-school university mainframes and current cloud services.
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Patents on billing systems of the dot-com era news.ycombinator.com
All of them have been abandoned and constitute prior art. This means there is nothing to prevent anybody to implement or commercialize these concepts.
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“Designing billing for a service can be really challenging” news.ycombinator.com
Personal anecdote on the design of the pricing plan for AWS Simple Email Service.
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) - Which allows them to claim the VAT on processing fees as input tax.
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source news.ycombinator.com
) - Simple explanation of the bidding mechanism.
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High failure rate of Point Of Sale devices in the upper Midwest news.ycombinator.com
The root cause? People wearing a lot of wool in low humidity air, generating a lot of static.
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Use-cases for cloud services news.ycombinator.com
The reason usage-based pricing makes even more sense for cloud services: to optimize ROI, keep all regular workload in traditional architecture and reserve cloud computing for elastic and experimental projects.
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On GCP invoiced billing news.ycombinator.com
Invoiced billing is a B2B-friendly payment happening after the service is consumed and an invoice issued. It seems to be a pain to setup on GCP but I suspect is a consequence of trying to reduce (costly) fraud.
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source news.ycombinator.com
) - Users are seeking more transparency on the spot market.
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Don't just roll the dice – Software pricing guide neildavidson.com
Huge and complete collection of pricing scheme, with their psychological effect and impact on revenue model.
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Monzo's bank transfers post-mortem monzo.com
Or why you should be prepared for and work around gateway provider's outages.
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