Hosted Metering & Billing Layer
A developer tool that sits between an app and Stripe to add usage metering, plan enforcement, invoicing logic, and billing events without bespoke backend work.
The problem
Builders repeatedly ask for simpler SaaS billing, metering, and KPI tooling instead of stitching it together themselves.
Proposed solution
Provide SDKs and a dashboard for usage capture, subscription state, overage handling, proration previews, webhook orchestration, and billing event logs.
Target audience
Bootstrapped SaaS founders and small product engineering teams
Key features
- Usage event ingestion
- Metered plan rules
- Invoice previews
- Webhook handling
- Stripe sync
- Admin billing dashboard
Monetization strategy
Charge per tracked event tier plus monthly platform fee.
Skills to build it
- Backend engineering
- Payments integration
- Event processing
- API design
- Dashboard UX
- Webhook reliability
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