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Lotus β Open-source pricing & billing
Lotus is an open-source pricing and billing engine for businesses of any model, including usage-based, per-seat, and custom pricing. Use the real-time system to optimize, test, and deploy your pricing, and streamline metering, entitlements, and invoices.
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@azhar Hey, we have a few large ways we differentiate including: entitlements (packaging), more flexible pricing experimentation and customization, realtime alerts, price caps, and some more integrations including Salesforce and Snowflake. We're also mostly in python, have an MIT license and are coming at this problem as a data optimization problem with some cool pricing ideas on the horizon.
@jakub_kubis Thanks Jakub. Would love to chat about it sometime. Always trying to learn more to improve our product!
Such a useful tool, Getting that right price point is never easy and making it this smooth to test is a great idea. Well done!
@alex_cannon Thanks Alex. Was great chatting to you about open source. Excited to see what you ship next!
As a fellow open-source startup founder, I can say that Lotus is a fantastic addition to the open-source ecosystem. Its pricing and billing engine is incredibly versatile and can be used by businesses of any model. The real-time system allows for easy optimization, testing, and deployment of pricing, and the streamlined metering, entitlements, and invoicing are a huge plus. I am impressed by the work that Mikael, Diego, and the whole team have put into this project, and I do not doubt that it will be a valuable asset for any business that uses it. Keep up the good work, guys! And keep pushing the boundaries of what open source can do!
Congratulations on the launch!! The product looks super interesting. Iβd love to play around and understand how flexible it is. Cheers π
We were an early customer and are excited about where this is going. There is a lot to digest regarding SaaS billing, and it was refreshing to find a team focused on solving technical problems with an open-source mindset.
They also were able to offer hands-on guidance on billing decisions that (sometimes much larger) alternatives lack.
Excited to see the team go.
@peter_mangan Great to see your support here Peter! Excited to continue to work with you and the Promptloop team.
@sewell_stephens Hey Sewell. For a very early stage startup or sometime of that scale Stripe Links are probably best! But when you start to scale, managing + remembering how to compute the invoice for customers who are on different unique plans with usage can get complicated.
Our primary goal is to make it as easy as changing your pricing in our dashboard and everything updates seamlessly, no need to go into the code, no need to manually compute/generate/send any invoices.
Interesting! Could you use this to replace Stripe Billing for a business using Stripe Connect to provide Stripe services to many customers? Thanks!
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