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Ask HN: SaaS product for account management in my app (billing, invites, etc)?

2 points by conorgil145 ↗ HN
Earlier today, my coworker was trying to setup accounts for a new SaaS service we just started using. I have the billing information and only admins can modify billing information, so she tried to figure out how to make me an admin. Turns out, the service only supports a single admin and you need to be an admin to modify billing and invite team members to join the account.

This is one recent example of a million SaaS services that I have used which do not support seemingly basic account management capabilities such as inviting teammates, controlling licenses/billing, etc.

It seems to me like every company/startup out there is constantly reinventing the wheel (often poorly) when it comes to these basic account management capabilities. It would make sense to me if someone started a company which literally just offered these account management boilerplate capabilities as a SaaS product somehow.

Does anyone know if such a thing exists? If it doesn't, can anyone think of reasons it doesn't exist? Would you use such a service so that you can focus on creating your product instead of the (necessary) boilerplate functionality relating to accounts, billing, etc, etc?

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calcsam
Holy shit. This is genius.

You're basically describing a Permissions API / set of libraries. You can describe a set of actions and

The danger I would see is that (like Stripe) you would literally have to have 100% uptime because you take down the app if you're ever down.

Really curious what this would look like in practice, but this is super fertile ground for thought.