SaaS (software as a service) means customers use your software online and pay a subscription instead of buying it once.
The parts of a SaaS product
- Accounts and logins for each customer
- The core feature that solves one problem well
- Billing for monthly or yearly plans
- An admin area for you to manage customers
- Multi-tenant design, where many customers share the system but cannot see each other's data
- Hosting, backups and monitoring
Start with an MVP
An MVP is a minimum first version. Pick the one workflow customers will pay for, build only that, and put it in front of a few real users.
What to decide early
- Who exactly is the customer?
- What problem do they have today, and how do they handle it?
- How will you charge, and how much?
- How will the first customers hear about you?
Ongoing work
A SaaS product is never finished. Budget for support, fixes, security updates and feature changes.
Own your code and data
Make sure the code, the cloud accounts and the data are in your name.
See our SaaS MVP Build, payment integration and multi-tenant setup.
