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Managing pricing changes at the code level, without appropriate abstractions or mechanisms, can quickly devolve into a tangled mess, resulting in more complexities than anticipated.

I’ve seen it too many times. As a result, engineering teams spend way too much time for every update in the pricing model. And companies can’t make as many changes as they’d like to, leaving money on the table.

If you’re not working with entitlements yet, you should take a look at them.

Entitlements help you cleanly decouple the pricing model from the application logic, enabling swifter and smoother changes to the pricing model, enable experimentation, and even allow GTM teams to play with the packaging without talking to developers at all.

I haven’t found many technical in-depth guides on that topic yet, and we’ve spent the past 2 years on building the best entitlement infrastructures for SaaS needs.

So, in a matter of sharing, here’s everything we know about them.