price-saas-subscriptionlisted

# Price SaaS Subscription Produce a **Pricing and Packaging Decision** that matches customer value, expansion, cost, and trust constraints. ## When to use - A SaaS price/package decision needs packaging, meters, fences, migration, or enterprise path - Pricing arithmetic must be internally consistent before publication - Not for billing/ledger execution (`build-payment-readiness`) ## Workflow 1. Identify the decision, buyer, user, purchasing motion, value metric, cost driver, expansion path, constraints, and assumptions. 2. Read `references/pricing-packaging-patterns.md`. 3. Decide the packaging model: free trial, freemium, usage-based, seat-based, tiered, hybrid, or enterprise. 4. Design plan boundaries, exact limits, upgrade moments, downgrade/cancel promises, and enterprise/procurement path. 5. Run a pricing arithmetic pass before publishing: seat minimums vs included seats, included usage vs overage rates, gross margin, annual discount, and procurement terms must be internally consistent. 6. Define exact usage rates, unit economics, margin guardrails, a bounded validation or rollout, sales enablement, objection handling, and kill criteria before proposing discounts. ## Handoffs - Market Research Synthesis supplies current competitor, substitute, buyer, and demand evidence; this skill owns the resulting price/package decision. - Payment Platform Readiness owns billing, ledger, entitlement, invoice, collection, tax, reconciliation, and finance-close ex