Build vs Buy

Should you build or buy your own pricing & packaging solution?

Deciding between
Build vs Buy

Should you build or buy your own pricing & packaging solution?

Some criteria to consider...

Accelerate to Market

Build

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    Spend months and, in some cases, years to launch and relaunch pricing plans
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    Maintain dedicated engineering resources to adjust and rebuild internal systems based on changing business needs
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    Tailor your tooling to your exact business need while losing the ability to adapt that tooling based on evolving pricing models

Buy

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    Launch pricing plans in minutes and hours
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    Remove the ongoing engineering burden to maintain and evolve your pricing and billing infrastructure
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    Ensure your pricing and billing systems are as dynamic as your market, your product, and your business

Reclaim the Roadmap

Build

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    Spend time and talented resources across engineering, product, growth and other teams building systems that do not help your customers
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    Expand the resources required to build and maintain this system as your pricing and billing evolve in complexity

Buy

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    Focus all of your time and resources on core feature development and value creation for customers
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    Leverage the pricing expertise built into Stage’s product and team to ensure your pricing and billing infrastructure scales with ease

Build with Expertise

Build

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    Depend on your team’s expertise to predict downstream implications of pricing and billing decisions, and risk building unscalable and unintelligent internal systems.

Buy

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    Utilize a product and data model from day 1 that packages best practices and expertise while gaining access to advanced features that will be mission-critical to monetization such as alerts and notifications, migration of legacy plans, plan sunsetting, usage rules and more.