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basically built this system when working on other projects and decided to turn this into a product in case useful to others

https://gater.dev

Most SaaS products start by tying feature access/entitlement directly to billing metadata (like Stripe plan IDs or Paddle SKUs). It works early on, but quickly becomes a problem when you need to:

- Launch or tweak pricing experiments - Handle usage-based logic (anyone building AI tools might resonate), add-ons, and trials - Fix entitlement issues caused by billing sync problems

gater solves for these by decoupling user entitlement logic from billing.

You define plans (we call these macros), features, usage limits, and custom rules via our dashboard or API.

Your app calls gater to determine what a user should be able to access, regardless of what billing provider or pricing model you use.

The benefits:

- Reduces engineering time spent maintaining pricing logic - Enables faster experimentation with pricing and packaging - Makes support more self-sufficient when billing and entitlements go wrong - Payment stack agnostic – works with Stripe, Paddle, Paypal, or a homegrown stack - Supports more than feature flags – usage caps, bundled features, add-ons, etc.

We originally built gater for our own projects to avoid rewriting complex feature access logic every time pricing model changes.

We've dogfooded this incessantly and hope this is also useful for other teas!

If you’ve had to battle entitlement logic implementation for your SaaS, we’d love to hear your thoughts or feedback.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43555402

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43265436

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Just to clarify, do you want a filter specifically to toggle between countries that are a part of the VAT OSS scheme and countries NOT in VAT OSS scheme?

We've been really frustrated with how sales tax tools out there usually only focus on one particular region (i.e. US states, Canada, and maybe Europe), even though there are like 260+ jurisdictions around the world each with their own sales tax, VAT, or GST rules pertaining to digital products.

So we made our own global sales tax index that covers virtually every jurisdiction you can think of, with updated information on B2B reverse charge mechanisms, general tax rates, as well as registration thresholds.

There is even a self-assessment feature where you can get a tailored assessment on where and when you need to charge and remit sales tax.

And of course, this is completely free - so feel free to play around!

Hope this is of use to at least some in the forum. Don't hesitate to comment with questions, and we'd appreciate any feedback!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40844822

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