Build vs Buy

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

Some criteria to consider...

Accelerate to Market

Reclaim the Roadmap

Build with Expertise

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

Launch pricing plans in minutes and hours
Remove the ongoing engineering burden to maintain and evolve your pricing and billing infrastructure
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

Focus all of your time and resources on core feature development and value creation for customers
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

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.