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Slack app to keep track of SaaS subscriptions

Subscription Tracker

While building and growing your product, we have to rely on many SaaS apps out there to simplify the workflow and increase efficiency.
Examples:
Intercom for customer support
Beamer/Headway for Notifications
Slack for chat support
Zoom for meetings
Notion for documentations
Github for code

And many more small tools too which help to ease the process!
Sometimes it gets a little difficult to manage and track these expenses. Sometimes, you have a subscription that is running for a while and you wanted to cancel it but you just forgot about it.
Do you hate paying bills you forgot to cancel? This can be solved by taking control of your subscriptions and be reminded before they hit your credit card.

Solution:

Slack App: Subscription Tracker
Simple easy to use slack app to keep track of all the team (and persona tool) subscriptions

Flow:

  • Setup: Tell Slackbot about the subscription details. (name, cost, monthly/yearly/Lifetime/trial/something else)
  • Alerts: Before the next billing cycle, Slackbot will message in the subscribed channel about the expense OR if it is on the trial period, it will message that part in the channel.
  • Reports: Also, it will give you simple reporting on expected expenses (for team and personal seperately) for next month, Current month expense, and distribution.

Why Slack App?

  • Ease of use
  • The workflow will be integrated within the slack which will decrease the setup overhead.

Questions:

  • Would you/team be interested to try something like this?
  • Do you think it adds value to the team’s current flow and will help in saving money?
  • Do you consider this app ‘pay worthy’?
on July 24, 2020