Everyone optimises the path to revenue. Nobody owns the price.
Your billing system knows what you invoiced. Your CRM knows what you discounted. Neither knows what you could have charged, what you're quietly giving away, or what a price change would do to the plan. Beacon models the price of your revenue — before you move it.
Your biggest revenue lever lives in a spreadsheet.
Price is treated as a given — a number that arrives from somewhere else and gets typed into the model. So it drifts. Discounts deepen, uplifts go unapplied, and nobody sees the gap until the renewal.
Every package, ranked by the price you actually collected.
Not the price list — the money that reached the invoice. Where the gap opened, how deep it goes, and what to do about each one.
Illustrative — across $34.0M of revenue. Price collected is what reached the invoice, as a share of list. It's always lower than list minus the approved discount, because discounts aren't the only thing that erodes a price.
Where these numbers come from
Three questions behind every pricing decision.
What you're really collecting, what your customers would actually pay, and what's changed about them since you priced them.
Your deal desk approved 31%. You're collecting 39% below list. Nobody approved the other eight points — they leaked out one unapplied uplift at a time, across 40 contracts.
How “what they'd pay” is worked out
Northwind is four and a half times the company it was when you priced it, and pays exactly what it paid then. That's not an elasticity guess — it's a funding round, a headcount, and a usage curve, next to a price that never moved.
Where the outside picture comes from
Move the price. Watch what it touches.
A price change is the widest lever in the company — it reaches revenue, margin, renewals and expansion at once. Run it as a model first, against what your customers have actually accepted before.
Illustrative model — the real curve is built from your own contracts, renewals and accepted price history, segment by segment. A modelled move is never a live one.
Three ways to price next year, against the company you're building.
A pricing decision isn't a price question, it's a plan question. Each option runs as a whole company — the ending, the funding, the valuation, the runway, the hires — against the growth target already signed off.
A year collected at a number you had already outgrown.
Repriced at the renewal, during the year, inside the band your customers already accept.
The cheapest fix on the whole bill: the renewal does the work if you move before it. The other five problems, priced the same way, are on the price of not knowing.
What the scenarios are built from
Test the price on a cohort before the whole book pays it.
You don't have to model your way to an answer. Put new customers on two prices, wait for the outcomes that actually matter, and read what happened — then change the list price knowing instead of hoping.
Price is what the whole pipeline transacts in.
Marketing prices the offer, sales prices the deal, customer success prices the renewal, finance plans the cash against all three. When price is a measured number instead of an assumption, every one of those forecasts gets more honest — and they finally agree with each other.
Price on evidence, not on nerve.
Free at any size. Connect your billing and see what you set against what you actually collected — usually within a day.