BillaBear

A Subscription Management and Billing System

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August 24, 2023 Released version 1.1

After releasing at the end of June, I spent the time between then and now working on adding Customer Feedback and adding features that I thought were really part of the MVP. So now I have a product that I feel really is properly viable.

Some of the features added include:

  • Tax calculation improvements. Handling reverse charge, custom product tax rates, custom customer tax rates, digital services tax rates.
  • Invoice improvements. Such as adding the tax country and tax type to the invoice data. Adding the ability to have a pay here link which is hosted by BillaBear.
  • Quotes. The ability to send a quote to a customer which they can accept and the subscriptions start once they've paid.
  • Webhooks. The ability to send webhooks to internal services when certain actions happen.

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June 29, 2023 First Sale

Got the first sale of the lifetime deal! It came from an inbound sales lead after making the front page of HN. I've got another person who said they'll buy and just waiting on them paying. And another call later today.

Check out the demo at https://youtu.be/cbInyGtqLCs

The lifetime deal is lasting until the 1st of July. It's 250 GBP and is a license for updates forever instead of 5,000 for a one year license.

If you want to get the lifetime deal it's available @ https://buy.stripe.com/4gweY33GnaNP8daeUU

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June 27, 2023 Version 1.0 Launched

Released version 1.0.

Features:

  • Fully customisable Invoice, Receipt, and Email templates
  • White Label Billing - Handle multiple brands
  • Voucher Management
  • REST API for integration
  • Multiple Email Integrations - SendGrid, MailGun, and Postmark
  • Expired Card Notifications - including the ability to offer incentives to add a card.
  • Multiple Subscriptions per customer - Add add-ons.
  • Ability to have Custom Plans and Custom pricing
  • Stripe Billing Data Import
  • Stripe Billing Integration
  • Ability to Migrate away from Stripe Billing
  • Invoice payment type for Enterprise customers

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March 8, 2023 Started development

Decided to build a standalone billing system for SaaS applications.

The aim is to provide the extra functionality that is needed for SaaS subscription systems that is missing from Stripe Billing by default.

It's built on top of Parthenon so development of Parthenon is helped by BillaBear.

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A billing system to allow companies to manage their subscriptions with ease.