... Apple's own support pages. Apple In-App Purchase: 26%, or 15% if you're in the Small Business Program, the Mini Apps or Video Partner Programs, or on an auto-renewable subscription after the subscriber's first year. Alternative payment processing inside your app: 20%, or 10% for those same groups. Out-of-app offers with an actionable link: a 15% store services commission, or 10% for those groups, on anything bought within 7 days of the tap. Apps ... ... distributed outside the App Store entirely - an alternative

... still burned the compute. Refund it and people retry until they like the result. Don't refund and credits feel like a slot machine. We refund and eat it, which won't scale. Curious where others have landed on charging for output the user rejects. Comment from Lisa(@yelyzaveta_kibets): I market a file converter where a voice memo and a 2 hour video are both one conversion in the UI and nothing alike underneath, so the exchange rate problem ... ... familiar. On failures, most of the ones I see turn out to be the file being wrong rather than the service breaking, which makes charging

... minor units your own record is stored in and you get 108200, which is fifty short of the 108250 on the invoice. Compare the two and the payment is refused. The invoice stays unpaid. The buyer has been charged. Nothing is broken. Every number is correct. The comparison is simply being made in different units from the charge

... Shoham(@omri_ben_shoham1): the reconciliation point is the real answer and it matches what i've seen elsewhere too. the part that still bugs me is the lag - if you reconcile nightly, you find out you double charged someone up to 24h after it happened, which is fine for catching the bug but not great for the customer who already saw two charges

... Claude Code refactor our checkout flow to add an annual billing option alongside monthly. It worked in every test I ran, annual customers got charged correctly, monthly customers got charged

... Hunters I'm Taylor, based in Alberta, Canada. I built RightsRadar because I kept watching the same scene play out: someone charged with an offence, sitting across a kitchen table from a stack of police disclosure they were never going to read and lawyers charging

... built my own tool. For context: I was running cold email campaigns across 4 mailboxes. Every warmup service I tried charged $29/mailbox/month. That's $116/mo before sending a single email. So I spent 2 weeks building WarmInbox. It does the same thing the big tools do: Connects to any mailbox via SMTP/IMAP Sends realistic emails to a pool of real accounts daily Opens them, replies 40% of the time Score goes from 0 100 over ~4 weeks Starter plan: $29/mo ... ... mailboxes (vs

... richer insights. That being said, I do not want to ever charge a subscription for my specific product's core functionality (splitting receipts in seconds by scanning a receipt photo or pasting a link). The goal of the company is to make it as easy as possible for people to spend quality time together, by reducing friction from social admin work like splitting bills. So charging

... compliance updates when VAT rules change in the EU You own the PCI audit conversation when your enterprise lead asks who maintains your payment infrastructure You own the bug where a customer in Turkey got charged 1,000,000 times too much because you didn't know about their latest currency redenomination Every single one of those things will happen. They are the normal operating reality of running software that touches money, customers, data, or really anything that matters. Most ... ... SaaS industry isn t going to change. Something is happening, but it's not the death of SaaS. It's the death of bad SaaS. For years, you could build a mediocre product in an uncrowded category and charge

... users are grabbing on to. Noone wants another subscription, so we provide the AI Creative services of several platforms in one spot, and allow for pay as you go credits. So far the buy in has been 50/50 sub vs bundled, but having both options is effective. See our credit model: https://aetherwavestudio.com/buy... Comment from Andrew Froehlich(@andrew_froehlich): @dansaki_samuel  I agree, the subscriber is the best friend of the Saas product, but do not overlook ... ... variable bit, usually long-context or agentic loops. one thing worth instrumenting before you change pricing: cost per successful outcome, not cost per token. token bills go up when your prompts get worse, and you do not want to charge

... Most phone batteries don t fail because of age, but because of habits: overcharging overnight, heat during fast charging, and frequent deep discharge. Full Charge

... everyone! We just launched Subsavely a smart assistant to track your subscriptions, avoid surprise charges, and finally stop the small leaks in your wallet. Launch Link: https://www.producthunt.com/prod... Like many of you, we were constantly seeing random You ve been charged

... everyone I m building a habit app with a twist: You choose a goal (e.g., meditate daily, work out 3x/week), and if you don t stick to it, you get charged real money like $1, $5, or even more. If you follow through, you pay nothing. Why? Because most habit apps are too easy to ignore. There s no real-world consequence. But when there s money on the line, suddenly it s a lot harder to skip Right ...

... Well, this is alarming : Acting U.S. Attorney Matthew Podolsky said:  As alleged, Albert Saniger misled investors ...