Billing & Subscription Insights
Practitioner-written insights from senior Ravus consultants on billing operations, subscription management, usage-based pricing, modern monetization stacks, and AI in billing. Field notes from the consultants doing the work.
Feb / 2026
Billing Software Trends 2026: The Modern Monetization Stack
By Mitch Colyer
The best billing stacks will be judged on how quickly they let you launch new offers (safely), how precisely they reconcile usage-to-invoice, and how cleanly they support finance and compliance workflows.
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Feb / 2026
The 5 Things – Billing Terms You Should Know
By Jay Allen
If you work in SaaS billing, RevOps, or finance, you’ve probably lived through it… even if you didn’t know it had a name.
After years in enterprise billing systems, we’ve collected some of the most obscure (but incredibly important) terms that rarely make it into casual conversation:
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Sep / 2025
Navigating Billing Ecosystem Changes: A Program Management Playbook
By Mary Langguth
Just as a surgical team relies on a pre-operative checklist to ensure a successful procedure, leveraging one for a billing transformation will lay the foundation needed for success from the start.
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Apr / 2025
Pricing to Invoicing
By Jackson Wren
The increasing prevalence of subscription and usage revenue models based on factors outside of P * Q have cemented the importance of a well-defined pricing pricing waterfall, providing the ability to quickly identify starting price from prorated, extended totals …
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Feb / 2025
Navigating Account String Changes
By Patrick Herrmann
In today’s financial environments, organizations rely on integrated systems for accounting and financial reporting. A common setup involves a billing subledger feeding data into an ERP system, typically handling…
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Dec / 2024
Software Trends in the Billing Arena
By Mitch Colyer
If you’re reading this viewpoint, you likely have a vested interest in some combination of billing operations, software, and automation. In this discussion, we’ll go deep, be direct, and hopefully broaden your understanding of how software can help (or hurt) your billing transformation goals.
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Aug / 2024
Your Billing Transformation Doesn’t Have To Be A Bear
By Derek Magnusen
At Ravus, we have cataloged 40 KPIs and Outcome statements that span 10 departments and can help orient you on the areas of your business you want to improve and the corresponding return on that effort.
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Aug / 2024
Software Options to Support Usage-Based Pricing
By Mitch Colyer
Whether you’re thinking about introducing a UBP pricing strategy, are currently making this shift, or have already gone to market with consumption models, this guide provides a simple frame of reference for your back-office revenue strategy.
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Aug / 2024
Practical Applications for AI in Billing & Collections
By Mitch Colyer
Vendors are introducing AI in two meaningful ways: to provide better value-driven outcomes for their customers, and to make their application more user friendly.
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