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Big news!
PricingSaaS has officially joined Willingness to Pay 🎉 I wanted to share this here because this community has become such an important part of what we’re building. The short version of the story: Back in 2024, I cold-DMed Ulrik Lehrskov-Schmidt after reading The Pricing Roadmap. I was hoping he might sponsor PricingSaaS for a few months. Instead, he made a much bigger bet on us: sponsoring us for two years in exchange for a piece of the company. That relationship turned into monthly board meetings, a ton of trust, and eventually a conversation this summer about what would happen if we joined forces. For John and me, it was an easy decision. We now have an opportunity to build something much bigger: a single platform where SaaS and AI leaders can learn about monetization, understand what’s happening across the market, and get hands-on help putting it into practice. And this community is going to be a big part of that. We’re going to keep investing in it, bringing in great operators, consultants, and builders, and doing more live events and conversations around pricing, packaging, and AI monetization. There’s an insane amount changing in software right now, and our goal is to make this the best place to figure it out together. Thanks to everyone here who has been part of PricingSaaS so far. We're just getting started. 🚀 Rob PS. Today, we also relaunched PricingSaaS and would love your feedback. Check it out at pricingsaas.com
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This is the way! Great to see this coming together.
User Minimums
Calling all pricing experts! Looking for help with user minimums. Here's the situation... Yesterday, I was talking to a pricing operator, and they have: 1. A Starter tier for individuals that costs about $75/user/mo 2. A Growth tier for teams that costs $95/user/mo with a 3-user minimum The primary differentiator between Starter and Growth is integrations and API calls which means prospects with more usage end up needing the Growth plan. Other than that there isn't much feature differentiation at all. The challenge is many prospects need Growth-level usage, but do not need 3 users. So the company ends up writing custom agreements for the Growth plan with 1-user, and generally does not see any PLG upgrades from Starter to Growth. Curious if anyone has any immediate thoughts based on past experience with user minimums. Is there a way they could use minimums better? Is there a better alternative to user minimums? Would love to hear your any perspective or experience others have had!
2 likes • Oct '25
separate user from functionality. Price the extra capacity (integrations/api calls) separate. You are adding something to a package for which the user does not want to pay, users, while they need something else, capacity. Same as why there is no dessert in the menu at your favourite burger joint, apart for the kids menu.
Main criteria for price adjustment/increase
Hey, community. Dealing with the (annual) challenge of price adjustment in a SaaS B2B company. Would like to know if someone could share successes and errors in choosing criteria to calculate adjustment. So far we consider inflation rate (I'm based in Brazil), taxes variation, US dolar variation and also a score built based on product's improvements in the last yar. Competitor analysis is a complement, but not very reliable since some make their adjustments after us. Hope to count on the group experience to improve my strategies. Thanks in advance!
1 like • Feb '25
@Ulrik Lehrskov-Schmidt A light went on in the last 20 seconds. Regular pricing increases make sense as it creates a muscle in the organization to get used to handling this. Makes complete sense, never realized 🙏
Trend-watch: Baby steps toward Outcome-Based Pricing
Happy Friday, y'all! Wanted to share a trend we've been seeing in PricingSaaS and get feedback from this group. TLDR, we're seeing SaaS companies take baby steps towards outcome-based pricing. A few examples below: - Chili Piper introduced Add Ons that do work for SDRs and AEs - Confluence introduced Automation Rule run limits across all plans Both of these additions help do actual "work" for users, but are still offered within the structure of seat-based pricing. On first look, it seems like a more gradual way to shift into outcome-based pricing rather than ripping the band-aid off. Curious what others think?
1 like • Feb '25
Hi Rob, good point. It is often hard to truly go after outcome pricing. After doing multiple repricing initiatives, I found that anchoring your price to the outcome often gets push back. If you look at all the things your customer brings into the mix to get to the outcome, let's say people, content/data, infrastructure, processes, training,... all those are easy to understand anchors for your pricing, as you can put a ROI against them and proof where you gain your clout. Anchoring your pricing on the outcome, is often felt as not correct by the customer as they themselves have worked (decided) on all those parameter, making it tough for them to accept you taking credit, thus anchoring your price against it. It is possible to do outcome based pricing. I have clients that successfully do so, they have heavily invested in sales enablement to help defend the proposals. Typical large ticket b2b sales. It is hard work, to get that extra ;)
Two or more pricing models
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?
1 like • Feb '25
Hi Rajesh, without knowing a lot about your solution, this springs to mind: You can do perfectly different pricing models for different businesses, as long as you can clearly draw a line (fence them). Let me give an example of a recent example of a HVAC asset management solution I did. 4 dimensions were considered: - Users (most obvious one - as everybody does this_) - features ( which expanded in a good/better/best (GBB) scenario) - installations - locations We went for 2 models Model A: locations and installations and GBB features Model B: locations and GBB features Users were not a valid metric, it would only favor the solution if the customer onboarded as much users as needed. How do we draw the line between model A and model B? Mainly on the business critical factor of the assets to the company. Business critical HVAC, means we go for model A. think datacenters - lof of HVAC - few locations, or supermarkets - business critical HVAC, critical HVAC and lot of locations thus model A. On the other hand we had retailers like shoe and clothing stores that need the solution, but the HVAC is not that business critical. Value is in somebody having all information in one place. Here we go for Model B. Only monetize on locations and GBB feature selection. On top some add-ons were defined that could be relevant for any type of customer, independent of their maturity. Think ESG reporting,... We made sure it was easy for sales to categorize the potential customer, so they can present an easy to understand proposal. I agree that having more price options potentially leads to more commercial debt, but more importantly never present your customer with your own internal complexity, too often pricing is unclear for customers, because we fail to make upfront decisions for them.
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Maarten Laruelle
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As the founder of Tsjirpa, I bring over two decades of strategic and operational expertise to the forefront of business scaling and market adaptation.

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