Schematic

ask yourself not what you can't do with your pricing and packaging today, but what you would do... if you had a 1st class entitlements system natively integrated with stripe billing. the answers are probably exciting and likely to make you more money :-)

Back from Stripe Sessions in San Francisco. A few things worth sharing. The talks and sessions were genuinely useful, and Sam Altman on stage was a nice surprise. The best part, though, was the conversations off-stage. At the Metronome monetization mixer I ended up in a great discussion with Matthew Cunningham and a room full of startup founders comparing notes on how they approach pricing and packaging. Hearing how different teams reason through tiering, billing models, and monetization decisions gave me a lot to take back to our work on Make's billing platform. Big thanks to Robert Martin, Benedict Bartsch and Sam Lockwood from Stripe for the introductions and for helping me get to know the right people, including the teams at Metronome and Schematic. Special appreciation to Giovanni Hobbins, co-founder of Schematic, for the deep conversation about pricing and for the book. That one is going straight to the top of my reading stack. Stripe Sessions did what a good conference should do, put thoughtful people in the same room and let real conversations happen. Thanks to everyone at Stripe who made it possible.

Last month we shipped the most we ever have. It culminated in launching our Stripe App at Sessions last week. The week before was Launch Week and the announcement of our raise. Here are a few highlights from April. 𝗖𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀. Sales-led deals no longer require engineering to provision. Create a one-off plan for a specific company with custom pricing, limits, grace periods, and invoicing. One flow from signed order form to live customer. 𝗨𝘀𝗲𝗿-𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗼𝗽-𝘂𝗽𝘀. Your end users can now manage their own auto top-up settings from the embedded portal. Set defaults, let them adjust. 𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹-𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗽𝗲 𝗔𝗽𝗽. The Schematic Stripe App is no longer just a sidebar. At Sessions, we launched the full-page view inside Stripe for managing entitlements, usage, and provisioning customer plans without leaving the dashboard. 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴. Third interval alongside monthly and yearly. Works across plans, add-ons, usage-based pricing, and credits. 𝗔𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗦𝗗𝗞. Native Angular support with the same entitlement checks, flag evaluation, and components available in the React and Vue SDKs.

setting up for sessions. we're demoing the Stripe Schematic app tomorrow at 1 pst. come by to check out how we're making entitlements & provisioning 1st class infrastructure for companies pursuing hybrid billing, complex deals, and multi-product offerings.

Launch Week, Day 1: Official Stripe App! We've launched the Schematic Stripe App. Entitlements, usage, and overrides live next to the Stripe subscription they belong to. Inside the Stripe dashboard, your team can: ⋅ See the features and limits every customer's plan includes ⋅ Watch real-time usage against those limits ⋅ Apply an override (grant a feature, bump a limit, extend a feature trial) with an expiration and a note ⋅ Spot customers who are over, under, or churning before it shows up in MRR ⋅ No second tab. No ticket to engineering. The people already working in Stripe can act on the full customer picture. Day 1 of Schematic x Stripe Sessions Launch Week. More tomorrow. More details and install link in comments.

Change management with pricing and packaging is hard. Honoring legacy customers, migrating customer access/subscription, and keeping track of plan change history is manual. That's why we built Versioning and Migration. When you make changes to a plan, whether to pricing, entitlements, or metadata, you can save those changes as a new version rather than mutating the plan in place. Then you can migrate customers to the new plan version or leave some or all customers in the old version as legacy. Take a look!