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Archetype enables companies to move faster, happier and more accurately. Automatically track and aggregate usage on any metric without engineering overhead. Reconcile subscription events easier, create and deploy any pricing model as your business evolves. Delight your customers with accurate invoices for usage-based systems.

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Use cases

Stop undercharging or overcharging your customers

  • Stop dealing with spreadsheets, messy SQL, contracts and confusing math to figure out how much you're meant to charge customers. Archetype automatically aggregates all your customers’ usage and transforms them into invoices in real-time.
  • View and export invoices and usage history with the click of a button.
  • Adjust invoices and issue credits in seconds.
Stop undercharging or overcharging your customers

Support any pricing model

  • Built for B2B companies that have custom pricing for each customer
  • Enable generalized pricing schemes and easily run price experiments, track cohorts.
  • Usage based
  • Seat Based
  • Fixed Fees
  • Credits with top-ups
  • Enforce entitlement, rate limit and threshold limits with Archetype’s APIs
  • Contracts with changing rates over billing cycles
Support any pricing model

Generate reports and audit easily

  • Track and search refunds, credits, discounts easily
  • Generate custom reports and exports and close your books weeks earlier
  • Easily modify a customer's subscription, issue credits or refunds.
  • Connect Salesforce or Hubspot to automatically update customer records
  • Track invoice statuses and keep track of delinquent customers.
Generate reports and audit easily

Build great customer experiences with Archetype’s prebuilt components

  • Customer portal for customers to view invoices, manage their subscription, update their payment details, or purchase credits on their own.
  • Branded payment flows so customers can pay via credit card, ACH or wire. Never deal with PCI data.
  • Dynamic pricing pages to easily set up pricing experiments.
  • Alerts for your customers on usage or spend thresholds.
Build great customer experiences with Archetype’s prebuilt components

Why Archetype?

Archetype is the best choice for SaaS businesses looking to scale quickly and focus on their core business.

Feature

Archetype

Manual (Stripe)

Chargebee

Billing and Invoicing
Usage-Based Pricing
Limited
Limited
Integrations
Limited
Limited
Metered Usage Analytics
Price Experimentation
Customer Portal
Limited
Access Control / Entitlements
Embedded Pricing Portal
Embedded Payment Flows
Limited
Alerts
Average Implementation
1-2 weeks
2-3 months
2-3 months

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