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Towards Pricing4SaaS: A Framework for Pricing-Driven Feature Toggling in SaaS

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In a rapidly evolving digital marketplace, the ability to enable features and services dynamically on SaaS products in alignment with market conditions and pricing strategies is essential for sustaining competitiveness and improving the user experience. This demo paper presents Pricing4SaaS, a reference architecture designed to enhance the integration and management of pricing-driven feature toggles in SaaS systems. It centralizes the configuration of the pricing structure, spreading its changes across the whole application every time it is modified, while securing state synchronization between both the client and server. Additionally, a case study integrating a reference implementation of Pricing4SaaS inside a Spring+React PetClinic project demonstrates how such approach can be leveraged to optimize developer productivity, reducing technical debt, and improving operational efficiency.

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Notes

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    The documentation of Pricing4SaaS suite can be found here.

  2. 2.

    The video of the demo can be found at https://youtu.be/uMzywQHCN20.

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Acknowledgments

Authors are thankful to Pedro Gonzalez Marcos for his collaboration in the development of unit tests for Pricing4Java package. This work has been partially supported by grants PID2021-126227NB-C21, and PID2021-126227NB-C22 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/FEDER and European Union “ERDF a way of making Europe”; and TED2021-131023B-C21 and TED2021-131023B-C22 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and European Union “NextGenerationEU”/PRTR. In addition, Fig. 1 was designed using images from Flaticon.com.

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García-Fernández, A., Parejo, J.A., Trinidad, P., Ruiz-Cortés, A. (2024). Towards Pricing4SaaS: A Framework for Pricing-Driven Feature Toggling in SaaS. In: Stefanidis, K., Systä, K., Matera, M., Heil, S., Kondylakis, H., Quintarelli, E. (eds) Web Engineering. ICWE 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14629. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62362-2_30

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