CREEM 2.0 - Sell and grow your AI built products
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- Creem 2.0 is the money platform for the AI building era: sell software and digital products globally, with payments, taxes, payouts, affiliates and usage billing handled for you
- The all in one platform for AI builders to turn what they build into a business. Payments, taxes, billing, affiliates, payouts, worldwide.
Building a product went from months to a weekend. Getting paid for it did not, with CREEM you can move at the same speed.
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Macaly
#1 well deserved 🥇 getting paid is still the messiest part of shipping ai stuff. usage billing was the missing peice for me, whats the typical take rate?
Do you have pay-what-you-want pricing? What about more complex system - for instance user-based-subscription prices (Not usage, but custom for each user, ideally so they can themselves change their own subscription size), etc?
In other words, how flexible is the system for me to come up with my own creative payment options, as I like to experiment.
Hey, congrats! Affiliate question: I want different commission per product, and recurring on subscriptions but only for the first 6 months. Every tool I've tried makes me pick one global rate. Possible here?
Creem
Hey thank you for your comment @furkan_duzen!
Yes. Per-product rates with a default fallback, one-time or recurring, duration cap or lifetime, percentage or fixed amount.
This is interesting. Building the product is one thing, but figuring out payments, taxes, billing, and everything around actually selling it can get surprisingly messy. I like that Creem is trying to take that part off the founder’s plate. Looking forward to see how people are going to use the usage-based billing in real products.
Best wishes @sudoferraz and team :)
Creem
@sudoferraz @whatshivamdo Thanks for the kind words! Usage-based billing is something we're really excited about too - it unlocks pricing models that actually grow with your customers instead of forcing them into rigid tiers.
Are you running usage-based pricing in anything you're building, or exploring it for the first time?
@sudoferraz @paul_creem TBH, I haven't seen much products with usage based billing. So, consider it first time only.
But definitely an AI-native builder myself, I'm seeing myself there exploring it now with Creem :)
Creem
@sudoferraz @whatshivamdoThat's great to hear! Usage-based is a natural fit for AI products since your costs scale with usage anyway. With Creem you can set up custom meters and let the billing match exactly how your users consume the product - no overcharging on quiet months, no leaving money on the table on big ones.
What are you building? Would love to help you figure out the right metering setup!
@sudoferraz @paul_creem Thank you for clarifying so well. Currently, I’m experimenting with a lot of new ideas. Once I have more clarity, I’ll definitely reach out. Thank you again for offering your help!
I’ve been using Creem for the past few days and honestly, I love it. The whole setup and payment flow feels incredibly simple and smooth, which is exactly what I want when launching a new product. Really impressed with how easy everything is so far. Hope Creem keeps growing — you guys are building something great!
Creem
Hi Vesa! Thank you, that genuinely made our day! 🙏🏼 Simple and smooth is exactly what we are going for, so good to hear it lands.
Quick one: how was the onboarding - was there anything you wish was different in the process? We're always looking for productive feedback. :)
Dial
Usage-based billing plus global tax handling in one platform is the hard combo to get right - most "merchant of record" tools I've looked at handle VAT/sales tax fine for flat subscriptions but get messy once you add metered/usage pricing on top, since the tax event and the billing event happen at different times. Does Creem calculate tax at time of usage accrual or at invoice time, and does that change per jurisdiction
Creem
@galdayan Tax is calculated when money moves, not when usage accrues. With prepaid credits that's the top-up (auto-refill included), on the gross, using the customer's location and VAT status from checkout. Consuming credits is not a tax event, so billing and tax are the same event everywhere; only the rate changes by jurisdiction. As merchant of record, filing is ours. Are you on prepaid credits or metered at period end?
Dial
@joosep_creem Not a customer yet, just evaluating options for our own usage-based pricing - but that answer actually settles the question I was circling. Collapsing billing and tax into the same event at top-up removes the whole "which jurisdiction rate applies to unconsumed credits" problem that trips up a lot of DIY tax setups. Makes sense why merchant-of-record is worth the cut for anyone doing metered pricing globally.
Creem
@galdayan Exactly that. The other half nobody expects: refunds. Refund a top-up and the tax has to be reversed in the jurisdiction it was collected in, which is where DIY setups break. That's ours too. When Dial gets to it, prepaid credits or metered at period end?
Creem
@joosep_creem @galdayan Makes complete sense Gal, with the credit wallets you can have all that done for you, basically for free, sending you the docs for it: https://docs.creem.io/features/customer-credits/introduction