Summer '26 release: The Retention Edition

WERO is coming. Here's what we know (and don't know) for subscription businesses.

The European B2B Payment Option Your Shopify Store Is Missing: Pay-on-Account

Subscription cancellation compliance: The €50,000 reason to update your European subscription flows

Unlocking the potential of subscriptions in Europe: Strategies for success

Why local payment methods matter for scaling recurring commerce across Europe

People of Firmhouse—Meet Jeroen

People of Firmhouse—Meet Laura

People of Firmhouse—Meet Denisa

Feature of the week: Direct references to Shopify

Feature of the week: Metrics dashboard

Feature of the week: Automatically pause subscriptions without active products

The psychology of sustainable consumption: Breaking and making habits

Feature of the week: Automatically tag first subscription orders in Shopify

Feature of the week: Sorting columns in overview pages

From first sip to last drop: Breaking down the consumable subscription lifecycle

Feature of the week: Customer filters on plans and products

Sustainability meets savings: The long-term financial benefits of eco-friendly choices

Feature of the week: Identity document verification via Veriff

“The ripple effect”: How small sustainable choices for consumable products add up

Feature of the week: Product prices per country and currency

Our October 2024 retreat: Shifting commerce for good in the French countryside

Feature of the week: Minimum order threshold

The drivers of servitization

Feature of the week: Delete customer data

The role of servitization in a changing economy

Feature of the week: Headless React components

Why modularity is the key to circularity

Feature of the week: Embeddable subscription widget for Shopify

Shopify subscriptions in Europe are getting a whole lot easier

Feature of the week: Modify products in the Self Service Center

Reinventing the role of retail through Product-as-a-Service and subscriptions

Feature of the week: Upgrades to prepaid plans

What is the difference between subscriptions and memberships?

Feature of the week: Shopify Single Sign-On

The difference between Platform-as-a-Service (aPaaS) and Product-as-a-Service (PaaS)

What is Product-as-a-Service (PaaS)?

How Parfumado transformed its subscription model with Firmhouse

From plateaued sales to sustainable growth: How recurring commerce helps e-commerce businesses thrive

Adding value beyond the product: Service components in recurring commerce

With subscriptions, merchants can unlock growth through customer retention

How recurring commerce builds customer loyalty amid economic shifts

Using automation to reduce churn in subscription services

Seamless integration: Transforming customer experience with unified commerce

How personalized subscription models are changing the game

The rise of recyclable and reusable packaging in online shopping

Team building in the French countryside: Takeaways from our May 2024 retreat

Recurring commerce is building towards tomorrow’s circular economy

The advantages and challenges of servitization

People of Firmhouse—Meet Bob

3 Strategies to Market and Position a Subscription-Based Business

New at Firmhouse: product based contract terms, improved finance operations, and service channels

How COVID-19 affects Product Subscriptions

Product-as-a-Service & subscription ideas to get you going!

Debt Collection - Growling or Biting? [part 3/3]

New Firmhouse Checkout & In-store Signup

Debtor Management - Striking the right balance between considerate and stringent [part 2/3]

The crucial aspect of any Product-as-a-Service company

Firmhouse Protect: pre-credit management for rental & lease in e-commerce businesses

Welcoming Europe to Recurring Commerce with the Firmhouse integration for Shopify

8 questions to ask yourself when starting with Product-as-a-Service

Turn your product into a subscription, three easy ways to start

How to retain e-commerce subscribers?

Products-as-a-Service as an accelerator for circular economy

Now live: Advanced Asset Management & Tracking in Firmhouse

What is Recurring Billing and Subscription Management Software?

7 Key metrics to track in your Subscription Business

8 ways to acquire new customers for your subscription business

How to start your subscription business?

How PaaS can help you built a circular business case - a road map to circularity

How Product-as-a-Service (PaaS) can help you deal with Seasonality?

What is a subscription product?

What are the main benefits of Product-as-a-Service for companies

How to reduce subscriber churn? 5 helpful tips to try

7 marketing tips to grow your Product-as-a-Service (PaaS) subscription business

How to successfully launch your Product-as-a-Service (PaaS) Pilot?

Capturing and Retaining Customers for your Subscription Business

How To Set Your Subscription Pricing Strategy?

Meet the new Firmhouse Subscriber self-service center

Subscription Services Are Here to Stay

Embracing Digital Transformation With As-A-Service Models

The Product-as-a-Service Business Case Calculator

The reintroduction of the term Product-Service Systems (PSS)

Automate your customer acceptance checks with our new Focum integration

Make your product as a service obviously more awesome than owning it

Modern Product Characteristics that make for a great Product-as-a-Service offering

The key product characteristics for a good Product-as-a-Service fit

The revenue opportunity behind Product-as-a-Service

The role of Product-as-a-Service models in the Circular Economy

We raised €600.000 to accelerate the roll-out of our subscription & product-as-a-service platform.

Why subscription services are on the rise & how to make yours a success

How a subscription business can help you serve your customer’s Jobs to be Done better

How Apple & Tesla use services to build recurring and lasting relationships with their customers

B2B subscriptions and the role of channel partners explained

Podcast: Lessons from building Firmhouse for 10-years

What we learned running the second Venture Lab cohort

How to use surveys the right way for testing your new business idea

Optimising Dispatch for mentors with the Progress overview

How you can hack Lean Startup into your Agile process

Using the Jobs to be Done push & pull (forces) diagram to understand your product’s potential

“Get out of the building!” Participating in a Startup Academy weekend..

Progress report on Firmhouse Venture Lab

What an entrepreneur can teach an academic

Announcing a new Dispatch…

Mapping your riskiest assumptions to find out what to test first

To make a product work, fit it into the lives of your users

How startups are like professional poker

Coming to GoMonthly in July: Super Smooth operations

Airstrip V2.7: Payment experiments, UX improvements and more

Startups win by learning fast

How to drive your startup into the ground without knowing it

Airstrip V2.5: Visitor metrics, templates, and more!

How Jobs to be Done help you to segment based on causality, not correlation

Four weeks — Four learnings. Conclusions after working remotely from Bali

Enjoying the mundane things — Halftime at the remote month

Working remotely from Bali: The promised land or working in isolation?

Using Jobs to be Done in a B2B context

Deploy early and often

Firmhouse Venture Lab 2017

Startups have solved the easy problems, now comes the real work

Using Jobs to be Done findings to pick your strategy and reach your customers

Kickstarting your Jobs to be Done discovery

Making PR reviewing work across projects

A case for the distributed internet

Know the Job to be Done to make products people love

Filtering Facebook search spiders/bots and other automated requests (FB_IAB)

5 Unexpected insights from helping hundreds of entrepreneurs

Automate office presence with Raspberry Pi

DeviceToken and turbolinks-ios

Review please

Our plans for Intercity Next

Experiment Examples To Get You Started Testing Your Idea

How our Rails 5 app served more than a million people in 2,5 weeks

400.000+ people signed up for a Pokémon Go launch notification in one week, this is what we learned

Adventure Time

Preview of the new Intercity UI

Tab Bar native-hybrid app with Xcode storyboards and Turbolinks 5

Firmhouse is looking for a front-end developer

Strategy eats Lean Startup for Breakfast

Under the Radar: How Floorplanner Used Money From Cash-Flow to Buy Their Highly Funded Competitor

Integrate Brakeman in your workflow

Controlling HTML5 audio/video tags on mobile Safari

Announcing Formbox - our latest (ad)venture

Setting up SSL for your Rails app

Building an iOS app with Turbolinks-iOS

Using Mixpanel Custom Queries

Measuring Monthly Active Users

The Purpose of Experiments in Startups

Forcing a Rails database migration

Measuring Monthly Active Users

Announcing s3bucketpolicy.com

Setting up an S3 bucket for your uploads/assets

Persistent storage for your Rails apps with Dokku and Docker

Simple signup and login in your app (Part 2)

Basic signup in your Rails app with has_secure_password

Deploy your code to Dokku with Codeship

Run migrations on Dokku/Heroku deployment

Schedule recurring jobs with Sidekiq 4

Minimum Viable Products emerge from Experiments

Your MVP is probably just an Experiment

Most Startups are Expensive Hobbies

Hybrid native apps are great for launching new mobile apps

Use git blame more efficiently

Instant cohorts and retention graphs for your Rails app

Make sure Redis is secure

Integrate Rubocop in your workflow

How I deploy a Rails app using Docker

How I build a Docker image for my Rails app