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SaaS Pricing in India: The Rupee vs Dollar Dilemma
Product Growth (productgrowth.in) · Product Growth Free Intermediate India
This is the rare piece that treats Indian and dollar pricing as two different economic games, not one price converted at the exchange rate. It walks through why Indian plans often land at 40 to 60 percent of the US sticker, why cart abandonment and failed recurring payments quietly wreck your funnel when you show USD to an Indian buyer, and what that does to your real per-customer math. Read it as a starting point for pricing the same product in two markets, then pressure-test the numbers against your own data.
- Willingness to pay, not the exchange rate, sets the gap: the same product often sells to Indian buyers at roughly half the US price, so you are running two margin structures at once
- INR checkout and UPI AutoPay materially lift conversion and recurring-payment success versus USD cards, which changes your effective acquisition cost per Indian customer
- Lower Indian price points only work if the volume and retention math holds, so model it per market rather than assuming one blended number
