Automate billing for any pricing, 0% transaction fee forever
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Michael Seibel

Paigo - Automate billing for any pricing, 0% transaction fee forever

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The automated billing platform for any pricing model: tiered plan, metrics with limits, usage-based, or recurring subscriptions. Set up your SaaS billing stack with zero effort and scale with developer-friendly billing API, all with no transaction fee forever.

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Matt Sun
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Hello Wooooorld! We are Matt and Daniel, cofounders of Paigo. Thanks to Michael Seibel @mwseibel for hunting us in the Product Hunt community. We are so thrilled to share more about Paigo with you all! Daniel and I have been working together and on SaaS billing for so long that we lost track of the years. In my old days, leading the platform engineering team at ClickUp and managing Database-as-a-Service at MarkLogic, where Daniel also lead the architecture and development, we had to consistently tackle billing challenges for up to $200M ARR. Not to mention Daniel even developed E-commerce billing based on transaction volume for a public company. We did our due diligence at times by testing out all the big or small billing platforms in the world. Unfortunately none of them solved the two core challenges many people have observed. 👀 Observation 1: Every company must develop internal billing features and business logic on top of 3rd party billing systems, because existing business systems are generic, not flexible, and unable to fit companys’ pricing perfectly. 👀 Observation 2: Every company must develop internal billing automations due to integrating with different toolings used by departments and evolving processes over time. Another related consequence is the necessity of hiring a team to solve lack of automation, including RevOps, Deal Desk or Biz Ops to manually own billing. Therefore, we built Paigo to be a billing system for SaaS business with two key design principles: automation and flexibility. 🚂 Customizable to any pricing model Customize Paigo for any pricing model, early or late stage, and various go-to-market motion. 🏖️ Automate every single thing in billing Sit back and see Paigo makes billing operations happen continuously on a clock without human intervention. 📊 Usage data metering at scale Meter product usage in real-time natively from every layer of SaaS stack, for usage-based billing. 🖥️ No-code SaaS billing stack Set up billing onboarding, invoice portal, payment management, usage tracking and subscription management in 3 min without writing a single line of code. 📈 Billing, pricing and usage analytics Query and visualize data with SQL. Use Paigo lambda to perform advanced analytics with any script you upload. Last but not the least, Paigo is redefining the value of billing systems with groundbreaking pricing ourselves. We are the first and only billing platform with: 💗 Free Forever Plan 💗 No transaction fee or revenue sharing 💗 Unlimited access to all features and unlimited users We’d love to have your support! Please sign up for Paigo to try it out (because why not, it’s free forever😆) at this link https://paigo.tech/, and share your thoughts or questions of the product. We and the community would appreciate your candid feedback!
Daniel Wasserlauf
Maker
@goforbg Hey we have some code examples inside our docs and actually in the application itself. https://docs.paigo.tech/usage-me... However we are currently working on a full SDK for the API. So it should be out soon.
Esus 🛡️
The fraud detection mentioned by another commenter caught my eye. It feels like every day I see a tweet of a new founder getting 'credit card tested' and ends up paying hundreds in fees. Would be neat if this could be an alternative/solution for SaaS folks? Congrats on your launch!
Matt Sun
Maker
@esus Hey Esus, thanks for the insight! Honestly this scenario is quite new to me - credit card tested and paying hundreds in fees. I'd be curious to dig deeper into this!
Daniel Wasserlauf
Maker
@esus Thanks for bringing this up. In our payment integrations we do enable users to have stripe be their end payment provider, and while not perfect, there is an option inside of stripe for their fraud detection and radar rules to be setup which Paigo would run through before actually charging the end customer. Thereby giving an option for founders to have something in place to avoid the fees.
Esus 🛡️
@thisismattsun Yeah tbf I am unfamiliar with it outside of seeing it on Twitter, some examples haha: https://x.com/5katkov/status/129... This whole one is super compelling from @threehourcoffee : https://x.com/threehourcoffee/st... And another random one: https://x.com/LtCharmy/status/16...
Daniel Wasserlauf
Maker
@esus 🤯🤯🤯 Thanks for sharing those links. Payments are really the wild west on the internet still. I remember reading this blog post a few weeks back, and if you haven't read it I would reccomend giving it a skim https://piotrmierzejewski.com/p/... The author found some pretty interesting and indepth stuff regarding payment fraud, and credit card number generation.
Chris Lester
Love it! Congrats team!
Daniel Wasserlauf
Maker
@chrislester Thanks so much for the support! Give Paigo a shot, and let us know what you think. :)
Philipp Geppert
The idea here is really good and I know there is a lot of demand for a tool like yours. Your documentation looks conclusive and easy to understand. Are you using any third party service providers to enable your service? Upvoted
Daniel Wasserlauf
Maker
@philippgeppert if youre asking about what 3rd party systems we integrate with, we have a lot of integration solutions out of the box. For any downstream systems, (quick books, excel, slack) you can receive a web hook notification when am event occurs and take action on it. additionally we are agnostic to any payment provider you want to choose. additionally we also can import and manage customers from existing platforms like stripe with basically zero effort. If you're asking how we built it and if we use 3rd party systems there. The main application is in aws running in a kubernetes cluster. we've built systems like this multiple times in-house before so it was fairly straightforward for us to spin something similar up.
Philipp Geppert
@daniel_wasserlauf I was pointing at what you use. Thank you for the explanation. Good luck with your great product!
Winged Piggy
Nice work, @thisismattsun! It looks like it's the perfect way to ensure your billing process is as efficient and cost-effective as possible. Here's to making daily tasks simpler and streamlining financial management. Cheers!
Matt Sun
Maker
@winged_piggy You got the idea! Improve efficiency, automate processes and make people happier!
Paweł Tomaszewski
Useful tool, I will definitely check this out 👌
Matt Sun
Maker
@pawel_tomaszewski Hey, thanks for your kind words! Love the work you are doing at Alphadoc. Feel free to sign up for Paigo for free (forever)!
Daan Stolk
@pawel_tomaszewski @thisismattsun I noticed your API docs aren't secure... feel free to take Alphadoc for a spin for better docs :-). Good luck with the launch!
Tony Yan
Will try to see if it suitable for us.
Daniel Wasserlauf
Maker
@zhitao_yan Yes! Let us know if you have any questions about your specific use case. Happy to chat. https://schedule.trypaigo.com
Andy Li
Congrats on the launch!!
Daniel Wasserlauf
Maker
@andydy25 Thanks so much! Let us know what you think of the product!
Garen D Orchyan
Big congratulations on the launch team♥️🦄
Daniel Wasserlauf
Maker
@orchyan Thanks for the encouragement! Happy to launch to Producthunt.
Ismail El Kasmi
Congrats, we're excited to see this masterpiece on 700.tools
Daniel Wasserlauf
Maker
@ismailelkasmi1 Yeah definitely! Get the word out! Its free to start and easy to sign up.
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