01Challenge
Challenge
The interesting part of a SaaS product is rarely the part that takes the time. Authentication, team permissions, subscription states and billing edge cases consume the schedule and are painful to retrofit.
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Web Applications · Technology & SaaS
SaaS Dashboard Application
For a SaaS business, a multi-tenant product foundation covering accounts, roles, subscription billing and an in-product dashboard, built before feature work began.
- Built on
- React, Node.js, MongoDB, Stripe
- Industry
- Technology & SaaS
- Project type
- Web Applications
- Primary service
- Web Applications
- Scope
- Product architecture, full-stack engineering, billing integration, deployment.
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02Approach
Settle who can see what before building what they see.
Permission model as a contract
Roles and their permissions were defined and tested before feature work, so new screens inherit them automatically.
Billing as state, not as webhooks
Payment events update a single subscription state that the product reads, instead of features reacting to payment events directly.
API designed alongside the UI
The interface uses the same documented API customers integrate against, which keeps it honest.
03Outcome
Foundations first, so features stay fast later.
The interesting part of a SaaS product is rarely the part that takes the time. Accounts, permissions and billing edge cases do, and they are painful to retrofit.
Multi-tenant from day one
Every record belongs to an account, and isolation is enforced in the data layer rather than remembered in each feature.
One subscription lifecycle
Trials, upgrades, downgrades, failed payments and cancellations all move through the same states.
A dashboard worth returning to
In-product analytics answer the questions customers were exporting spreadsheets to answer.
What changed
- Accounts, team permissions and billing states were settled first, so later features did not have to revisit who can see what.
- Trials, upgrades, downgrades and failed payments run through one subscription lifecycle.
- A documented API gives customers a stable surface to integrate against.
How it works
Account, product and billing layers.
One run, step by step.
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Inside the system
What it does.
- Multi-tenant data model with role-based access control
- Subscription lifecycle including trials, upgrades and dunning
- In-product analytics dashboard
- Team invitations and permission management
- Documented API surface for integrations
Built with
What it runs on.
- Frontend
- React
- Backend
- Node.jsREST API
- Data
- MongoDB
- Billing
- StripeSubscription webhooks
The foundations were settled once, so the product can keep growing on top of them.
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