Building a saas app with Adalo
An app people sign up for and pay to keep using.
A SaaS app needs accounts, plan state and gating that cannot be bypassed, plus honest handling of failed payments and cancellations.
What this kind of app usually needs
- Accounts with a plan saved against each user
- Screens or features that only paying users can open
- An onboarding flow that reaches something useful quickly
- Honest handling of cancellations and failed payments
- A billing or account screen
The parts that take the most work
Plan gating
Gate on the user record's plan state and never on anything stored on the device.
Store payment rules
Digital subscriptions consumed inside a native app usually have to use in-app purchase.
Onboarding to value
Trial users churn in the first session if the first useful action is not obvious.