This week in XaaS Pricing: April 8th, 2022
A roundup of resources, pricing news, and other ephemera in my head
Since the XaaS Pricing site is now live, we’re putting up a lot of content and resources over there.
So I’ll be using this newsletter, well, like a newsletter.
Once a week I’ll share a round up of available resources, posts, and other musings from the world of as-a-service pricing. I’ll also be sharing updates and experiences from our journey building XaaS Pricing, and doing the occasional vendor or topical deep dive along the way.
XaaS Pricing Analysis and Resources
For all the latest and greatest in resources and as-a-service pricing thinking, visit the XaaS Pricing blog. We post on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, with two blogs and a resource or template each week.
This week included:
A breakdown of the what, when, why, and how for usage-based pricing
Some thoughts on where to start with pricing for startup founders
Version 1.0 of our Competitive SaaS Pricing Calculator Template
Next week we’ll be sharing some tips on how to do competitive pricing research, breaking down SaaS pricing models, and sharing a portfolio comparison template for evaluating SaaS offerings.
This Week in XaaS Pricing
I dipped my toes into the world of NFT monetization.
You may have heard the news this week about the shutdown of one-click e-commerce payments SaaS provider Fast. Fast’s issues were certainly bigger than pricing. Their pricing model is identical to the base model used by Fast investor Stripe. A one-click checkout player that is still very much alive is Bolt. They are worth checking out if you haven’t heard their story. For the pricing heads, Bolt uses a unique variant on the industry-standard 2.9% per transaction model for payment providers.
XaaS Pricing Startup Musings
We’ve been having great calls with users, and onboarding beta users to our current platform. We’ve gathered a lot of great feedback on desired datasets (hint: discounting). We’re also making great progress with the MVP version of the platform.
One thing that’s been smacking us lately is how much we have to learn about marketing. This isn’t a surprise to any of the startup teams out there, but living it is different than reading about it.
For those learning marketing, a resource I’ve found extremely helpful is Traction by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares. We were having a bit of information paralysis when it came to figuring out where to start and where to go with marketing efforts, and this book is helping us to prune through the ~10 traction channels available to us and prioritize our efforts.
That’s all for this week. Would love your thoughts or comments, and enjoy the weekend. To those that watch (not me, but basically my whole family), enjoy the Master’s and we’ll catch up next week!