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Apr 13, 2026
Is usage-based pricing right for my SaaS business?
Is usage-based pricing right for your SaaS? Griff Parry breaks down key trends and best practices in 2026, refreshing original work by Todd Gardner (SaaS Advisors) that was published on the m3ter site in 2022 and 2025.
Pricing Strategy
Mar 31, 2026
m3ter and PwC UK survey finds software companies won’t fully realise value of AI due to legacy billing and finance infrastructure
Core systems must modernise to fully capture revenue as 63% of UK executives lack full confidence in billing operations, study finds.
Mar 30, 2026
Zuora alternatives: Modern subscription and usage billing solutions
Zuora helped define subscription billing but modern alternatives better support usage-based and hybrid pricing—offering more flexibility, scalability and lower complexity for today’s SaaS businesses.
Mar 27, 2026
Best usage-based billing software: key features to evaluate in 2026
Usage-based billing is now the SaaS default, but poor tools cause revenue leakage and inefficiency. The best platforms combine scalable data processing, flexible pricing, real-time billing and strong integrations, driving accuracy, agility and better customer experience.
Mar 24, 2026
Complex SaaS pricing models explained: from flat-rate to hybrid billing
Complex SaaS pricing combines advanced models: usage-based, tiered, credits and hybrid with enterprise billing demands. Choosing the right structure, supported by robust infrastructure, is critical to driving revenue growth, protecting margins and maintaining customer trust at scale.
Mar 20, 2026
AI billing: Usage-based pricing strategies for AI and data-driven services
Usage-based billing aligns AI costs with customer value, enabling scalable revenue and margin control. Learn how to design pricing metrics, build billing infrastructure and improve customer trust with transparent, consumption-based models for AI and data services.
Mar 12, 2026
How usage-based pricing reshapes SaaS go-to-market and product strategy: lessons from billing as a strategic lever
Usage-based pricing reshapes SaaS beyond billing, influencing go-to-market and product strategy. But its benefits: value alignment, expansion-led growth and higher retention, depend on reliable usage data infrastructure that ensures accurate, auditable, and scalable billing across teams.
Mar 09, 2026
Metered utilization: how to measure and bill usage in SaaS
Metered utilization lets SaaS companies charge customers based on actual product consumption, aligning revenue with delivered value. But it only works with reliable usage data pipelines and billing infrastructure that capture, process and rate events accurately at scale.
Mar 04, 2026
m3ter Expands Integration With Salesforce to Support Advanced Usage Monetization in Agentforce Revenue Management
Collaboration enables high-scale metering and rating capabilities for customers deploying complex usage-based pricing models
Feb 17, 2026
The impact of net revenue retention on SaaS company valuations
Net revenue retention (NRR) is a key driver of SaaS valuation. Companies with 120%+ NRR grow more efficiently, rely less on new customer acquisition, and command premium ARR multiples. A 10-point NRR increase can boost valuation by 20–30%, making expansion revenue a powerful compounding advantage.
Feb 13, 2026
Usage‑based billing analytics: Metrics every SaaS revenue team should track
Usage-based billing relies on seamless integration between product usage, billing and finance systems. Learn how to build a scalable, automated usage-to-cash pipeline and prevent revenue leakage.
Feb 09, 2026
Usage‑based billing integration: Connecting product usage with finance systems
Usage-based pricing only works if product usage connects seamlessly to finance systems. Without automated integration across metering, rating, billing, CRM, and ERP, teams face manual reconciliation and revenue leakage. Learn how to build a scalable, auditable usage-to-cash pipeline.
Feb 06, 2026
Usage Data Ingestion: An Engineer’s Technical Guide to Building Scalable Pipelines for SaaS Billing with Usage Billing
Usage-based billing depends on a reliable ingestion pipeline. This technical guide explores the challenges of ingesting high-volume usage events at scale and shows how production-grade architectures and platforms like m3ter ensure resilient, accurate SaaS billing.
Jan 30, 2026
Usage data ingestion: Building scalable pipelines for SaaS billing
Usage data ingestion is the foundation of accurate usage-based and hybrid SaaS billing. As event volumes scale, fragile pipelines cause billing errors, revenue leakage, and disputes. This guide explains why ingestion fails at scale and how to build reliable, high-throughput pipelines.
Jan 28, 2026
m3ter Announces “m3sh Workflows” to Enable Software Companies to More Easily Automate Workflows and Succeed with Usage-Based Pricing
m3sh Workflows speeds and simplifies connection of core monetization infrastructure - such as Salesforce and NetSuite - to each other and to m3ter’s leading usage-based pricing platform.
Dec 16, 2025
Billing transparency: Building customer trust with clear usage reporting
Billing transparency is now essential for SaaS using usage-based pricing. Customers expect clear, error-free bills, near real-time visibility into usage and spend, and self-serve reporting. Learn best practices, the right tech stack, and common pitfalls to avoid disputes and churn.
Dec 11, 2025
SaaS billing management 101: Best practices for subscriptions and usage
Consumption-based billing is now mainstream in SaaS. Learn what’s driving adoption, the must-have features of modern billing systems, and best practices to launch usage-based pricing without sacrificing accuracy, transparency, or growth.
Nov 19, 2025
Essential Features of Subscription Management Tools for Hybrid Billing
Hybrid billing blends subscriptions with usage-based pricing—giving enterprises predictability, flexibility, and control. Learn how the right subscription management tool, like m3ter, powers automation, reduces revenue leakage, and supports complex pricing at scale.
Nov 12, 2025
Enterprise SaaS Pricing Models: Balancing Subscription, Tiered, and Consumption
Enterprise SaaS pricing is shifting from flat subscriptions to usage-based and hybrid models, aligning prices with actual usage. This drives easier adoption, natural upsells, and retention, but requires metered billing automation to prevent errors and optimize revenue.
Oct 28, 2025
What Is TCV? Understanding Total Contract Value in SaaS
SaaS is evolving rapidly. As more companies adopt usage-based and hybrid pricing models, our foundational metrics need to evolve, too. One of the most essential — but often misunderstood — is Total Contract Value (TCV).
Oct 13, 2025
Unlock Advanced Pricing and Data Sync in Salesforce: The Latest m3ter Salesforce Managed Package
The "Road to v1.0" is a multi-part series detailing the journey to version 1.0 of the m3ter Salesforce Managed Package (SMP). This is part 3.
Product
Oct 02, 2025
Maximising Consumption Revenue: Growth Strategies with Usage-Based Pricing
The SaaS industry has undergone a dramatic shift over the last decade. Once dominated by fixed subscription fees and per-seat licenses, today’s most successful software businesses are turning to usage-based pricing (UBP) to align monetization with value delivered.
Oct 01, 2025
Pay-as-You-Go Pricing Models in SaaS: Advantages, Challenges, and Examples
In this post, we explore the rising importance of PAYG pricing in SaaS, outline how it works, unpack its benefits and operational challenges, and highlight examples and best practices.
Sep 16, 2025
PwC UK and m3ter Partner to Strengthen Revenue Integrity and Reduce Commercial Risk
m3ter, the intelligent pricing and billing platform, announced a strategic collaboration with PwC UK to help organisations reduce commercial risk, modernise billing operations and strengthen revenue integrity.
