Schematic

What is Schematic?

Schematic is a platform that combines feature management and subscription management. It helps product and engineering teams quickly decouple pricing from application code. This allows product and go-to-market (GTM) teams to launch any billing model, iterate on packaging, enforce limits, run trials, configure custom deals, deliver in-app billing, and turn usage and billing data into actions that drive expansion—all without code changes.

The mission of Schematic is to help engineering teams spend less time on billing. It also gives product and business teams the tools to accelerate revenue by leveraging pricing and packaging with greater agility, control, and flexibility than before.

Benefits

Schematic offers several key advantages:

• Decouple Pricing from Code: Easily manage pricing and packaging without changing application code.
• Feature Management: Control access to features using feature flags, allowing for flexible entitlement management.
• Usage Metering: Track customer usage and bill accordingly, supporting hybrid and usage-based pricing models.
• Enforce Limits: Use soft and hard limits, entitlement triggers, and alerts to drive expansion and protect against limit abuse.
• Product Catalog Management: Update plans, bundle and unbundle features, offer add-ons and enterprise plans, launch trials, and support legacy plan versioning.
• Customer Profiles: Combine account, usage, and billing data into a single, easy-to-access profile for better visibility and management.
• Embeddable Billing UI: Add drop-in purchasing components such as upgrade/downgrade options, customer portals, pricing tables, and usage meters.

Use Cases

Schematic is ideal for SaaS companies looking to streamline their billing and feature management processes. It is particularly useful for:

• Product Teams: Quickly iterate on pricing models and feature offerings without relying on engineering resources.
• Engineering Teams: Reduce the time spent on billing-related code changes and focus on core product development.
• GTM Teams: Launch and manage trials, custom deals, and enterprise plans with ease.
• Customer Success Teams: Gain a 360-degree view of customer usage and billing data to better support and retain customers.

How It Works

Schematic integrates bi-directionally with Stripe to facilitate billing while adding powerful capabilities such as embeddable UI components, internal admin dashboards, feature flags, and usage-based metering. This allows you to manage your entire pricing and packaging surface area without the need for homegrown systems that tightly couple pricing and packaging logic into application code.

Vibes

Schematic has received positive feedback for its ability to simplify billing and feature management. Users appreciate the platform's flexibility and the ease with which they can manage pricing and packaging. The embeddable UI components are particularly praised for delivering a consumer-grade purchasing experience.

Additional Information

Schematic is backed by a team with extensive experience in SaaS and billing management. The platform is designed to support a wide range of monetization models, including hybrid pricing, usage-based billing, and custom entitlements. Schematic's major concepts include the Product Catalog, Company Profiles, Metering, Subscriptions, Feature Flags, and Components. These concepts work together to provide a comprehensive solution for managing billing and feature access.