Introduction
Schematic: Flexible Billing & Pricing Engine
Schematic is a flexible billing and pricing engine specifically designed for SaaS and AI products. It enables businesses to quickly launch and manage usage-based, credit-based, or hybrid pricing models without the complexities and rebuilds traditionally associated with billing systems.
Core Functionality:
Schematic’s primary purpose is to streamline the process of managing customer pricing, plans, limits, and the entire customer journey. It supports a wide range of features, including:
- Usage-Based Pricing: Enables launching and managing pricing models based on product usage or credits.
- Plan Management: Facilitates the creation and management of various customer plans, including limits and entitlements.
- Feature Gating: Allows businesses to control access to features based on customer plans, facilitating monetization strategies.
- Dynamic Pricing: Supports the creation of flexible pricing tables with add-on options and pre-payment options.
Key Capabilities:
- Customer Portal Builder: A drag-and-drop React builder allows for the creation of fully-functional, customizable customer portals – including pricing tables and checkout functionality.
- Smart Flags: The system utilizes "Smart Flags" – an advanced feature flagging system – for granular control over feature availability and monetization.
- Metering & Pricing: Schematic employs sophisticated metering and pricing capabilities, designed to enable frequent iteration and experimentation.
- Plan & Entitlement Management: Provides robust tools for managing access rights, exceptions, and loyalty credits/entitlements.
- SDKs and API Support: Simple, customizable SDKs and a flexible API empower developers to integrate Schematic seamlessly into existing workflows.
Targeted Use Cases:
Schematic is designed for rapid experimentation and iteration, supporting scenarios such as:
- Launching new products or add-ons.
- Layering self-serve options onto sales-led approaches.
- Driving product-led expansion.
- Testing new pricing structures.
- Introducing usage-based or hybrid pricing models.
Technical Differentiators:
- Extremely Fast Rollout: Features are deployed “extremely fast,” reducing time-to-market.
- High Availability: The system boasts high availability.
- Open Feature Support: Supports open feature support.
Integration & Support:
- Stripe Integration: “Connect Stripe once, don’t login again” – Streamlined integration with Stripe for billing and payment processing. Import existing Stripe products and customers.
- Developer Resources: SDKs are offered alongside an API for flexibility.
- Event Log: Includes an event log.
