Articles
- Which AI Builders Can Make a Paid App With Accounts and Monthly Subscriptions? (2026)
A non-coder’s guide to building a web app people pay for every month: what the billing really involves, the honest options compared, and how to choose.
- How to Price a SaaS Product: Tiers, Anchors and Trials (2026)
A practical method for setting your first subscription prices: pick a value metric, build two or three tiers, use an anchor honestly, and choose a trial that fits how people learn your product.
- Free Trial vs Freemium for a Small SaaS: How to Choose (2026)
When a time-limited trial beats a free-forever plan, when it doesn’t, what each costs you to run, and how to set either one up without surprising customers.
- Failed Payments and Dunning: How to Recover Involuntary Churn (2026)
Why subscription payments fail, what retries and card updates fix on their own, and the emails, grace periods and access rules that recover the rest.
- Stripe Fees Explained (2026): What a $20 Subscription Actually Nets You
A line-by-line breakdown of Stripe’s published US fees for subscriptions, with worked examples for domestic and international cards, tax, refunds, disputes and annual plans.
- SaaS Metrics for Beginners: MRR, Churn, LTV and CAC Explained (2026)
Plain-English definitions of the subscription metrics that matter, how to calculate each one with worked examples, and the mistakes that make small SaaS numbers look better than they are.
- Sales Tax and VAT on Software Subscriptions: Basics for Small Sellers (2026)
How US sales tax and EU and UK VAT apply to SaaS and digital subscriptions, when a small seller has to register, and the three practical ways to handle it. General information, not tax advice.
- How to Validate a SaaS Idea Before You Build It (2026)
A four-week plan to find out whether people will pay for your subscription idea: problem interviews, a one-page offer, real pre-orders and a concierge pilot, with the signals that mean go, change or stop.
- Best No-Code SaaS Builders (2026): 6 Options for Subscription Apps, Compared
Six builders that can produce a web app people pay for monthly, ranked for non-technical founders, with what each does well, what to watch and current prices from their own pricing pages.
- Best Payment Platforms for Subscription Apps (2026): 6 Options Compared
Stripe Billing, Stripe Managed Payments, Paddle, Lemon Squeezy, Polar and Chargebee compared for small subscription businesses: what each handles, what it costs per charge, and who it suits.
- Floot vs Bubble (2026): Which Is Better for a Subscription App?
A fair, side-by-side comparison of Floot and Bubble for non-technical founders building a paid web app: how you build, billing, data, phone apps, ownership and price, and when to pick each.