Blog Posts

Add Value to Your Service by Joining a Marketplace

Manifold helps to simplify the process for customers to integrate services within their own applications, improves service visibility within the development community, and helps provide service vendors with a revenue stream where one previously didn’t exist.

Scott Fitzpatrick

Comparing the Top 5 Pricing Models for Developer Apps

Don’t be afraid to mix and match different pricing strategies to find the right fit for your product and market. And don’t be afraid to make an adjustment if the pricing strategy you adopt at first doesn’t seem to be working. Nothing in the world of software pricing is written in stone.

Chris Tozzi

Top 5 Enterprise Features That Should Be Part of Your Service Today

These essential features enterprises require might be boring or mundane to build – they might even seem unnecessary – but it makes a world of difference when you have them.

Swaathi Kakarla

Developing Better Cloud-Native Apps with Cloud Service Marketplaces

Developers want the ease and scalability of cloud-native development patterns. But they also want to build apps that stand out from the crowd.

Chris Tozzi

How Shift-left is Changing How Dev Teams Buy

Developers are the builders of the enterprise and empowering them not only increases productivity but also gives you a better quality product.

Twain Taylor

Announcing Plan Builder Developer Preview

A tool that anyone on your team can use to click, drag, and toggle their way to a standard pricing table that showcases your product plans and corresponding features.

Leah Rivers

Is SSO a Necessary Evil? Not Necessarily

As a developer, SSO may feel like a chore to implement, and not worth the effort. But the fact is that SSO is critical for delivering a smooth end-user experience and managing users efficiently.

Chris Tozzi

Four Ways to Make Your Service Stand Out in a Marketplace

A marketplace listing that fails to identify your service's value clearly, succinctly, and that makes it hard for consumers to find more information undercuts the point of using a marketplace at all.

Chris Tozzi

The Benefits of DevOps tools in a Marketplace

Listing on a marketplace presents a unique opportunity for developer services companies and is a great distribution strategy.

Cordny Nederkoorn

Service pricing: Don't race to the bottom

Everyone loves to complain about how much things cost, and developers are no exception. It's not very common to hear someone say that a developer tool is priced fairly and rare indeed is the developer who will come out and say that a tool is underpriced.

Chris Tozzi

New in 2020: Pricing and Packaging, Simplified

Manifold’s Plan Builder makes managing your pricing possible from one location with minimal intervention as you grow and adapt your pricing and packaging; changes happen centrally and populate out to your pages, apps, and other reseller channels.

Leah Rivers