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Comment by stevev | Hacker News Reader

For such systems that are commonly used by many, it’s best to open source it. Don’t reinvent the wheel.

Have you tried Lago (open source billing)? This is precisely what they do, their HN launch is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34773442 They listed the billing engineering nightmares too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31424450

We looked into them. Unfortunately they’re very expensive.

Lago co-founder here, although we have an Enterprise plan (which, by definition, is for Enterprises), we invest considerable resources in the open-source and free product, used by a lot of early stage companies/bootstrapped projects, let me know if we can be helpful.

I’m referring to the Premium Plan. We are not an enterprise but need a lot of the features offered at that tier, stuff that I feel most businesses need like credit notes and invoices sent by email.

'fair pricing' yet no actual, you know, pricing, was such a red flag I didn't even ask for a quote.

It's a massive shame that simple table stakes features are behind "get a quote". Folks, I'm not even sure this makes good business sense; just charge me 0.5% of revenue for premium and set enterprise up as 'get a quote' with enterprise features or 1M revenue plus.

I feel that a pricing product should have more transparent pricing. All the more amusing given that you host a Stripe fee calculator.

We have hard time having proper implementations of interesting problems, how can we expect an workable open source billing system implementation ? With the proper engineering tradeoffs and flexibility needed to comply with all businesses and legal specificity ?

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