Recurring revenue, gated correctly.
Subscription products with Stripe Billing, gated content, customer portals, churn-aware lifecycle email.
- Starting at
- $30k
- Structure
- Phase-by-phase quote, fixed bid
What you get for the work.
- 01
Stripe Billing, properly
Subscriptions, proration, dunning, customer portal, tax. Tested against the failure cases so you don't lose revenue to a webhook race condition.
- 02
Gating that scales
Content gated at the route or component level, with role and tier awareness. Free preview vs paid full vs grandfathered all handled.
- 03
Lifecycle email built in
Welcome, day-3 check, retention, dunning, win-back. Wired to Klaviyo or Customer.io, all triggered from real events.
- 04
Owned by you
Code, Stripe, email tool, customer data all in your accounts. Memberships are too operational to depend on a vendor.
What we build it on.
- Nuxt or Next + Postgres
- Multi-tenant subscription data model.
- Stripe Billing + Tax
- Proration, dunning, customer portal, sales tax.
- Klaviyo / Customer.io
- Lifecycle email wired to real events.
- PostHog / Amplitude
- Churn cohorts, MRR, expansion tracking.
- Inngest
- Webhook handling, scheduled jobs (renewal reminders).
$30k buys this. Bigger scope scales it.
Included at the floor
- One to three subscription tiers with Stripe Billing
- Gated content at the route or component level
- Customer portal (Stripe-hosted or custom)
- Lifecycle email sequence (5 emails)
- Webhook handler with retry and dead-letter queue
- Churn dashboard in admin
What scales the number
- Annual plans with discount and renewal reminders
- Trials, freemium, or seat-based pricing
- Team / organization accounts (see SaaS)
- Bundled physical products (see Ecommerce)
- Affiliate or referral program
What a starter membership product looks like
One to three tiers, gated content, Stripe Billing with portal, lifecycle email, webhook handler, churn dashboard. Six to ten weeks. The full subscription lifecycle works at launch.
Where the build scales
Team accounts (multiple users sharing one subscription) are the most common scaler. Trials with credit card collection, freemium with usage-based upgrade triggers, and seat-based billing each have their own data model. Affiliate programs add their own attribution and payout layer.
What we will not build
Memberships with no real recurring value. Memberships where the founder has not yet validated anyone will pay for the second month.
Common questions.
- Should we use Memberstack or Outseta?
- For very simple cases yes. The moment you have non-standard pricing rules, multi-tier upgrade paths, or a need to grandfather existing customers, the off-the-shelf tools become the bottleneck. We rebuild from them often.
- What about dunning?
- Stripe handles the retry schedule. We handle the in-app banner, the lifecycle email, and the eventual restriction of access. All three live in the codebase.
- Sales tax?
- Stripe Tax handles US sales tax and EU VAT. We wire it up at the floor.
- How long until launch?
- Six to ten weeks at the $30k floor. Stripe wiring is the biggest variable.
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