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1,528 items in 12 lists
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The Double-Entry Counting Method web.archive.org
Same premise as above, but way more detailed and complete, as it adds reporting and implementation details.
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How to correctly setup SaaS subscriptions to charge VAT in Europe web.archive.org
“If you think you can just setup a simple Stripe integration and move on, like us, you'd be sadly mistaken.”
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Finding the max revenue price mark for digital products web.archive.org
“To find the optimal price that provides maximum revenue for your product you will need to field-test several price points; you then reconstruct the revenue curve and find the peak.”
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You're all calculating churn rates wrong web.archive.org
“On the surface, churn rate may seem like a natural proxy for changes in customer lifetimes. Let's dig into why that is not true.” Churn rate is not a meaningful metric to compute CLV: during the customer lifetime, the churn probability is not constant. Most of the time because…
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Content of EU invoices web.archive.org
The information required on a EU invoice is detailed by Article 226, Section 4 (Content of invoices) of Council Directive 2006/112/EC on the common system of VAT.
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The 5 Pillars of PriceOps web.archive.org
A manifesto inspired by the DevOps movement in which pricing is no longer ossified, but is practiced as a responsive iteration process, and implemented as a flexible property of the system.
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Digital signatures: how Sleek leverages Cloud HSM to guarantee the integrity of legal documents web.archive.org
Here is a great way to rely on GCP's HSM to digitally sign documents and provide an immutable audit-trail. Might be applied to invoices as well as contract agreements.
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Why not use Double or Float to represent currency? web.archive.org
Because of precision: floats and doubles cannot accurately represent the base 10 multiples that we use for money.
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AWS reserved instances vs saving plan web.archive.org
A feature matrix of the different scheme and their average dicounts.
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2017 Tax Software Developer's Guides web.archive.org
A list of test cases for developers to test their tax code against.
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China’s Pinduoduo reports theft of online discount vouchers to police web.archive.org
The next level of fraud: “an online collective exploited a loophole on its platform to ‘steal’ tens of millions of yuan worth of discount vouchers”.
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The SaaS Financial Model You'll Actually Use web.archive.org
A complete tour of the financials of a startup, which gives you extra-context on how the metrics you produce fit into the larger picture.
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The Best Payment Gateway for Startups web.archive.org
A benchmark of top payment providers, their pricing and models.
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Transforming Financial Forecasting with Data Science and Machine Learning at Uber web.archive.org
Discusses how Uber apply data science and machine learning in their financial planning platforms.
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Five Fun Fraud Facts web.archive.org
Another tiny collection of features we can feed to a ML system to detect fraud. Comments on HN also unearthed more qualifying signals and derived geodata on the transaction.
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The Network Monetization Map: Aligning Incentives with Revenue web.archive.org
6 models of monetization relying on network effect.
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Reconcile Your Monthly GCP Invoice with BigQuery Billing Export web.archive.org
Behind the quest of this developer to track its expenses, you get a glimpse on cloud billing difficulties. While not explicitly pointed out, pricing cloud resources is hard and the result of quantization, granularity and rounding, between space, time and currencies.
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Credit Card Fraud Detection using Autoencoders in Keras web.archive.org
Tutorial on how to rely on anomaly detection to implement suspicious card transactions.
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part 1 web.archive.org
, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.
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AI vs Data Science vs Data Engineering web.archive.org
“Data Engineers build data pipelines and infrastructure to ensure a constant availability of transformed data. Data Scientists analyze and build models from these data to develop new product features or drive the bottom line of the business.” As for AI professionals, their…
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Present or Future: Optimal Pricing for Spot Instances web.archive.org
“Pricing policy of spot resources should be carefully designed and the impact on both present and future should be considered.”
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The long, long history of long, long CVS receipts vox.com
“CVS is a drugstore much like other drugstores, with one important difference: The receipts are very long.”
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We tried to make billing backendless useautumn.com
Failed attempt to move the billing experience by from backend to frontend because of security.
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Survival Analysis For Customer Retention two-wrongs.com
Illustrates how retention can be better modelled using a survival function like Kaplan–Meier survival curves.
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A Quantitative Approach to Product Market Fit tribecap.co
Metrics produced above have a greater reach, as they're used as important signals to validate product-market fit.
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Churn Prediction towardsdatascience.com
“How to use Python in a simplistic way to fuel your company's growth by applying the predictive approach to all your actions.” Relies on XGBoost binary classification.
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The Three Part Tariff tomtunguz.com
Beyond linear pricing, there is a place for additional platform fees and free-tiers in the pricing structure.
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The 7 factors to consider when pricing your startup product tomtunguz.com
Pricing is an offensive tool to reinforce your product value and underscore the company core marketing message.
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Is this what Enterprise mean? threadreaderapp.com
When contracts, invoicing and payments are not working together, you end up alienating your big enterprise customers. See the associated HN comments on bulk license purchase.
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Training an ML model to score chargebacks threadreaderapp.com
An example of a platform's network effect, which allows to predict the likelihood of winning a dispute.
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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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