Use Cases

Schematic gives product, growth, and engineering teams one place to define what customers get, enforce it in real time, and bill for it, without hard-coding pricing and access into your application.

These use cases cover the things teams most often want to do. Each one explains the goal, how it’s usually approached, and how Schematic fits in, then points you to the deeper setup docs. New to Schematic? Start with the Quickstart to set up your account and SDK first.

Product-led growth

• Convert and expand users self-serve — let customers sign up, upgrade, and add capacity without talking to sales.
• Give customers a self-service portal — one branded place to manage subscriptions, payment, invoices, and usage.
• Run free trials — grant time-limited access and convert trial users cleanly when the trial ends.
• Price by usage — meter consumption, enforce limits, and turn rising usage into expansion.
• Bill for usage — turn metered usage into accurate Stripe invoices automatically.
• Run credit-based billing — sell a prepaid credit balance that burns down as customers use features.

Sales-led growth

• Close custom deals — package bespoke pricing and entitlements for negotiated contracts without touching code.
• Run sales-assisted trials and POCs — grant a time-boxed, scoped evaluation tied to an open opportunity.
• Expand accounts with upsells and add-ons — grow existing accounts with seats, add-ons, and tier upgrades.

Customer management

• Manage exceptions with overrides — adjust a single company’s access for trials, goodwill, or in-flight deals.
• Spot churn and expansion with usage signals — watch usage against entitlements to flag at-risk and upsell-ready accounts.
• Stay ahead of renewals and expirations — catch trials, overrides, and contracts before they lapse and access changes.

Operations

• Reprice and repackage safely — roll out new pricing and packaging and migrate customers on your terms.
• Keep Stripe in sync — keep entitlements and billing aligned through a bidirectional Stripe sync.
• Automate with webhooks and AI — drive Slack, CRM, and AI-assisted workflows off Schematic events.