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B2B Pricing Strategy: How Better Packaging and Onboarding Drive Growth 

AI Overview

B2B companies can often grow faster by fixing pricing, packaging, onboarding, and payment strategy instead of just focusing on lead generation. In this episode of B2B Vault, Allen Kopelman interviews Roee Hartuv of Willingness to Pay about SaaS pricing models, customer retention, packaging strategy, implementation, AI-driven margin pressure, and how software companies can unlock more revenue by charging the right way.

The Revenue You’re Missing: How Better Pricing, Packaging, and Onboarding Drive B2B Growth

B2B Vault: Biz to Biz Podcast with Allen Kopelman and Roee Hartuv

Executive Summary

Software and fintech companies often obsess over leads and traffic while ignoring the highest-ROI Growth lever: pricing and packaging. Roee Hartuv explains that how you package a product and onboard customers after the sale often creates the fastest revenue lift. The conversation explores the shift toward software companies becoming payments companies and how AI is rewriting the traditional SaaS playbook.

Why Pricing and Packaging Matter

It isn’t just about how much you charge; it is about how you charge. Proper pricing and packaging directly impact:

  • Conversion rates and customer fit.
  • Expansion revenue and retention.
  • Overall business profitability.

Packaging Around the “Job to Be Done”

Instead of internal feature buckets, Roee recommends packaging around the customer’s specific needs. This involves identifying the customer’s pain points, maturity level, and necessary capabilities. This creates a natural growth path where customers move up tiers as their business becomes more advanced.

The Shift: Software as a Payments Company

A major trend in SaaS is the realization that long-term revenue scales through payment flows rather than just subscriptions. Many platforms are now:

  • Bundling payments directly into the platform.
  • Reducing or waiving SaaS fees at certain processing volumes.
  • Earning a percentage of every transaction to change the business economics.

Why Onboarding is a Revenue Lever

Founders often focus on the sale but ignore activation. If customers aren’t trained or migrated properly, they stall before becoming real users. Allen suggests using implementation fees to create “skin in the game,” ensuring customers are committed to the onboarding process.

Five Areas to Fix for B2B Growth

  1. Packaging: Aligning bundles with customer needs.
  2. Pricing Metric: Charging based on value (e.g., transactions) rather than just seats.
  3. Testing: Validating changes before a broad rollout.
  4. Quote-to-Cash: Adapting billing and collection workflows.
  5. Customer Migration: Moving existing users to new models without backlash.

The Impact of AI on Pricing

AI is increasing the “cost to serve” due to computing and API expenses. This forces companies to move away from unlimited flat pricing. Additionally, AI tools allow buyers to compare vendors instantly, making transparent and consistent pricing more critical than ever.

Final Thoughts

Growth doesn’t always require more demos; often, it requires fixing what happens after a customer says yes. The winners in a crowded market are the companies that make their products easy to buy, easy to adopt, and easy to justify through clear value.

Resources & Contact

Podcast: B2B Vault: Biz to Biz
Host: Allen Kopelman, Nationwide Payment Systems
Guest: Roee Hartuv, Willingness to Pay

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1. What is the difference between pricing and packaging?
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Pricing is the specific amount you charge and the unit of value (the “how much”). Packaging is how you bundle features, service levels, and capabilities into distinct plans (the “what”) for different customer segments.

2. Why is pricing considered a high-ROI growth lever?
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Optimizing pricing or packaging can increase revenue almost immediately without the high costs associated with acquiring new customers. It maximizes the value of your existing user base and improves margins.

3. What is a “pricing metric”?
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A pricing metric is the unit of consumption you bill against. Common examples include the number of users (seats), transactions processed, invoices sent, or specific business outcomes achieved.

4. Why is transaction-based pricing often better than seat-based?
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Transaction-based pricing aligns your revenue directly with the customer’s success. Seat-based pricing can inadvertently penalize a customer for growing their team, whereas volume-based pricing feels like a fair exchange for the value generated.

5. Why do SaaS companies struggle with customer activation?
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Many companies over-invest in sales and marketing but neglect the “last mile”—onboarding, implementation, and training. Without a structured process to get customers “live” and seeing value, churn rates remain high.

6. What role does onboarding play in retention?
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Onboarding is the foundation of retention. Effective onboarding increases software adoption, improves overall customer satisfaction, and sets the stage for future upsells and long-term account growth.

7. Why are software companies increasingly bundling payments?
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Embedded payments allow SaaS companies to monetize the actual activity happening within their software. This creates a scalable, secondary recurring revenue stream beyond traditional subscription fees.

8. How is AI impacting SaaS pricing models?
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AI features introduce significant variable costs (GPU compute, API tokens). This is forcing companies to move away from flat “unlimited” pricing and rethink their margin assumptions to account for these real-time expenses.

9. Should B2B software aim to be the cheapest option?
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Rarely. In the B2B world, reliability, support, implementation quality, and vertical fit are usually more important than price. Being “too cheap” can sometimes signal a lack of enterprise-grade Security or support.

10. Why is migration difficult when changing prices?
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Existing customers often have “Legacy” expectations. Any price increase or change in packaging requires a strategic communication rollout to prevent churn and explain the added value justifying the new structure.

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ALLEN KOPELMAN CEO, Nationwide Payment Systems | Host of the B2B Vault: The Biz to Biz Podcast

Allen Co-Founded Nationwide Payment Systems Inc. in 2001, with the plan to sell credit card processing services and equipment to merchants in the South Florida area and provide concierge style service for each client. Quickly the company grew to 1000 plus clients and we were had clients all over the United States.
The entrepreneurial bug started early in Allen’s life as comes from a family of business owners and learn about business from early age behind the cash registers at his father’s clothing stores in Miami. Later going to Culinary School in Atlanta and being a Chef, then Executive Chef for Metro Hotels in Dallas, Texas running food and beverage operations in Hotels. In 1992 a move back to Florida and opening a restaurant, catering company and consulting group.
After gaining a couple of years of experience selling merchant services, Allen Co-Founded Nationwide Payment Systems with David Burney. Together the company started and quickly grew, products were added, processing banks and the company became laser focused on technology that would help merchants. Along with that came a focus on hard to place businesses that many banks did not want to work with.

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