Currently, have a user based pricing model for our B2B SaaS. An association with several Micro business members prefers a business or location based fixed pricing. Should we agree for location based pricing for micro business owners ? Our mid sized businesses prefer a user based pricing. Should we support both pricing models and give a choice to customers? What other points should we consider while making our decision?

Thanks for accepting me in your community. I have spent two months reading The Pricing Roadmap book and watching Ulrik´s videos to improve my company aproach on pricing. We have a lot to work and learn and is super exciting to carry on this project. I have, however a much pressing question. We provide a monitoring and control saas service for mining, water utilities and energy companies and we also install and mantain our monitoring instruments. We deal with much bigger than us, cupper mining companies and pulp companies, among others. They frequently pick their suppliers on biddings and lately some of the biddings require we sell the platform to them because they want complete control on their data. Related to this, some big energy intensive companys have told us, no, we cannot work with you because all our data must remain within the house for security resons. So, I was thinking.. A "job to be done" would be ...I want others to develop my platform but I want to run it withouth the data going out. If we develop, and deliver an entire platform for each of this requests. How are we suposse to charge? and more important.. should we do it? Could we answer in other way with out losing this opportunities? If you could guide me in this, I would really aprecciate it. Kind Regards and excuse grammar english mistakes.

Hey folks, Our B2B sales led SaaS business is currently exploring some changes to how we communicate pricing to customers in our Order Form. One of our goals is to get better at expiring / removing discounts at renewal in order or improve our expansion ARR and therefore improve our NDR. Today, we don't show any discounts on the Order Form. We're aligned internally that we want to start showing discounts so our customers clearly see that they are getting a discount and our reps at renewal have a number to point to when they discuss reducing or removing that discount. One item I'm looking into is how to clearly communicate to customers that the discount will expire after the initial term. I looked at a handful of Order Forms for vendors we buy from (Slack, Zoom, Salesforce, HubSpot, etc.) and it was rare to see any mention in these regarding the treatment of discounts. Does anyone have experience explicitly writing into the contract how discounts will be treated in future terms? One of our concerns is being explicit with this will prolong negotiations. Thanks for any advice! Best, Steve

Thank you for the insightful content! I have a critical business dilemma and would greatly value your perspective: One of my few but important SaaS clients insists on owning the code and solution to eliminate competition. I see three options: 1) Refuse and stick to the SaaS model with other clients, risking losing this key client. 2) Agree to share some intellectual property to protect her while maintaining my ability to serve others. 3) Sell my company to her. Could you help me clarify the best path forward for my company’s future? Thank you so much!

Hey folks. Context: I'm working on introducing better pricing guidance for our B2B SaaS product that's sold using a sales led motion. Today we just have list prices and we want to introduce target prices. We've never published our list prices nor put them on customers' agreements so we have some flexibility with changing these to fit our needs. We do want to move to showing customers the list price, discount, and net pricing on agreements. This will help us more effectively expire discounts that are intended to be short term (e.g. 1st year). Question: When you're thinking how to set list vs. target price (target discounts), what have you seen work well? Hypothesis: My initial thought is to set the target price 10% - 20% below the list price. Here's my rationale: 1. If sales starts the negotiation at list, it gives them some room to negotiate down to target 2. If we want to setup most of those discounts as 1st year only discounts, then the price jump for customers isn't painfully large 3. Our discount escalation policy is setup so AEs can discount 10%, Sales Directors (20%), RVPs (30%), etc. Targeting a discount of 10% to 20% should keep most deals from reaching the more senior approval levels. Would love to hear some thoughts on the topic if anyone has any. Thanks in advance! Steve