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Billing software for New York publishers, SaaS firms and membership brands.

Our subscription billing software development New York teams commission covers digital news paywalls, B2B software contracts, coworking and fitness memberships, and consumer subscription brands. We build the logic that prices, prorates and renews each plan, the account screens customers use on web and mobile, and the dashboards finance relies on at month end. Everything is designed around New York's sales tax treatment of software and the state's amended auto-renewal rules, so growth does not create tax or consumer protection exposure.

New York taxes prewritten software, including software accessed remotely, and it rewrote parts of its automatic renewal statute with effect from November 2025. City regulators have proposed rules of their own. A billing platform for this market has to keep up with all of it.

Built for
Publishers, software vendors, membership operators and consumer brands in New York City and across New York State with recurring revenue.
Typical timeline
The first release, its contents and its delivery schedule are agreed in writing after discovery, once migration and integration work is sized.
What you own
All source code, the billing data, the subscriber records and every third party account, held in your company's name from the first day.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

200+ companies across the US and the UAEFrom a first store to a listed developer

Modon
Majid Al Futtaim
HP
Belkin
Dulsco Group
OneClickDrive
Hanayen
HMS
Clocksprings
Ghezlan

What we build

Core billing functions for a New York subscription business.

New York's recurring revenue businesses are unusually varied. Media groups in Midtown sell digital access with print bundles and corporate site licenses. Software firms in the Flatiron District and around Union Square sell annual contracts to banks, law firms and agencies. Coworking operators, boutique gyms and climbing walls in Manhattan and Brooklyn sell memberships to people who move, travel and change plans often, and direct to consumer brands in Brooklyn and Long Island City ship monthly boxes nationwide. Custom subscription billing software development New York companies ask for usually starts where a hosted tool cannot express their contract terms or tax position. Our team of 80+ in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi works remotely with New York clients, and discovery sessions, design reviews and sprint demos all happen by video call. These are the functions we build most often here.

Explain your project
  • Paywall and access entitlements

    Metered article limits, registration walls, digital only and print plus digital bundles, student and educator rates, and gift subscriptions. Entitlements update the moment a payment clears or lapses, across the website, the news app and newsletters, so readers never see a locked article they have paid for. Commuters who read on the subway with no signal keep cached access until the app reconnects.

    Paying readers always get access, and lapsed ones see the right offer.

  • Group and site licenses

    Firms, universities and agencies buy access for many people at once. Admins invite and remove users, licenses true up at renewal, and domain or IP based access can sit alongside named seats. Invoices go to accounts payable with purchase order numbers, while individual readers never see a price.

    Corporate deals billed accurately without manual seat counts.

  • Contract billing for B2B software

    Multi-year deals with annual uplifts, ramped seat counts, committed usage with overage and co-termed add ons. A signed order from your CRM creates the subscription, schedules every invoice and calculates proration when a customer adds seats mid-term. Annual uplifts apply on the anniversary without anyone remembering to change a price.

    Contracts billed exactly as signed, without spreadsheets alongside.

  • New York software tax handling

    New York treats prewritten software as taxable whether delivered on disk, downloaded or accessed remotely, while truly custom software is treated differently. Where a license covers users in several places, tax may be apportioned by location. The platform stores user locations and product classification and passes both to your tax engine.

    Software invoices taxed the way your adviser has confirmed.

  • Renewal notices for business contracts

    Under General Obligations Law section 5-903, an automatic renewal clause in certain service contracts may not be enforceable against a business customer unless written notice is sent within a set window before the renewal deadline. The platform tracks each contract's notice date and sends a logged reminder in time.

    Renewal clauses you can actually rely on at contract end.

  • Membership freezes and transfers

    Coworking desks, gym access and club memberships that freeze for travel, move between locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, or transfer to a colleague. Proration and deposits are calculated automatically, and door access systems receive status changes from billing in real time. Security deposits and refunds on exit are tracked against each member, so nothing is left unreconciled.

    Members can change plans without a call to the front desk.

  • Consumer renewal compliance

    Clear renewal terms at checkout, affirmative consent stored with the terms shown, renewal reminders, and notices of material changes and price increases as New York's amended statute requires. Customers in California or other states get the rule set for their address, and online cancellation stays available throughout.

    Consumer flows that meet New York's amended renewal rules.

  • Failed payment recovery

    Smart retries based on decline codes, card updater services, wallet payments as a fallback and reminder sequences by email, text and push. Readers and members keep limited access during a grace period you set, which gives them time to fix a card without losing the habit. Recovery results are reported by plan and by message, so you can see which reminders work.

    Involuntary churn reduced without harsh lockouts.

  • Subscriber security and breach readiness

    The New York SHIELD Act expects reasonable safeguards for the private information of New York residents. We build role based access, encryption, audit logs and alerting into the platform, keep card data with your processor through hosted fields, and document the controls your security team and PCI DSS self assessment need.

    Security controls in place before an auditor asks for them.

  • Revenue reporting for finance

    Deferred revenue schedules, recurring revenue movements, churn by plan and cohort, and ledger postings to NetSuite, Sage Intacct or QuickBooks. Board decks and investor updates draw on the same numbers the auditors test. Every figure can be traced back to the invoices and payments behind it.

    Revenue figures finance can defend in any meeting.

Best suited to

New York companies that get the most from a custom build.

Subscription billing software developers in New York see the same pattern repeatedly: the business grew faster than its billing setup, and finance now patches the gaps by hand each month. The right fix depends on what you sell and to whom. These four profiles describe where custom work makes the biggest difference for companies based in the five boroughs and beyond.

01

A digital publisher or newsletter business

You sell individual subscriptions, group licenses and bundles, run promotions around big news moments and need readers to keep access across web, app and email. We build entitlements, introductory pricing that steps up on a disclosed schedule, and reporting that shows which offers keep readers after the first renewal. Retention offers sit inside a cancellation path that stays clear and short. Editorial and audience teams see subscriber movements daily, not at month end.

Introductory pricing disclosed up front, never as a surprise.

02

A software vendor selling to regulated buyers

Banks, insurers and law firms in Manhattan negotiate custom terms, ask for detailed invoices and run security reviews before they sign. We build contract billing that reflects each deal, supports the evidence their vendor risk teams request, and keeps tax treatment consistent with New York's rules on software sold to customers in the state. Renewal notices for business contracts are scheduled automatically, so a renewal clause is not lost because nobody sent the letter.

Vendor security questionnaires answered from documented controls.

03

A coworking, fitness or club operator

Members expect to book, freeze, upgrade and cancel from their phones, and staff need a desk view that never contradicts the app. We link billing to booking, access control and guest passes, with prorated changes when someone upgrades from a hot desk to a dedicated desk or moves between locations in different boroughs. Guest passes, day passes and meeting room credits are billed on the same account, so members receive one clear monthly statement.

04

A consumer brand shipping subscriptions nationwide

Brands run from Brooklyn and Queens sell to customers in every state. That means economic nexus decisions in many states since the Wayfair ruling, different taxability of the goods themselves, and different renewal laws by customer address. We connect your storefront, tax engine and subscription engine so skips, swaps and pauses stay in step with fulfillment. Customers who move house keep their subscription, and tax and renewal rules follow their new address automatically.

Your current storefront can usually stay in place.

Six steps to a New York billing platform.

  1. 01Contracts and offers auditEvery plan, license type, bundle and promotion, plus the custom terms in signed contracts, collected so nothing in the data model is guessed.
  2. 02Tax and legal mappingNew York software taxability, nexus in other states, the amended renewal statute and SHIELD Act duties reviewed with your adviser and counsel.
  3. 03Architecture decisionsBilling provider or own engine, processor, tax engine, CRM and ledger links, and how entitlements reach the site, the app and access systems.
  4. 04Iterative buildBilling rules, account screens and admin tools developed in short sprints and shown to your team over video call against your hardest contracts.
  5. 05Reconciliation and cutoverNew and old systems run side by side, invoices compared line by line, card tokens migrated between processors, and the switch made on a quiet billing day.
  6. 06Post launch supportRecovery rates, tax exceptions, renewal notice logs and support tickets reviewed, and improvements scheduled as your pricing evolves.

Technology

What we build this with.

We often use Python or Node.js services with PostgreSQL, an event stream for entitlements and usage, Next.js for web and React Native for mobile. Processors such as Stripe, Adyen or Braintree sit underneath, with hosting in a US cloud region under your own account.

01Mobile

  • Swift
  • Kotlin
  • Flutter
  • React Native

02Data and cloud

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Docker

03Marketing and tracking

  • GA4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Search Console
  • Meta Pixel
  • Looker Studio

Common questions from New York subscription businesses.

Discovery first, then short build sprints with demos by video call.

We start by collecting your plans, contracts, tax position and existing systems, then agree a first release in writing. Building happens in short sprints, each reviewed with your team remotely. Before launch we bill in parallel with your current system and compare every invoice. New York clients work with us entirely by video call and shared tools, with no site visits needed. You see working software early, so pricing and finance staff can test real scenarios long before launch rather than reviewing documents.

Tell us what the business needs. We will tell you what to build first.

Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.

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PROVEN RESULTS

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