D-ICE Engineering bills its SaaS by usage without copying anything into Excel
Before invoicing, everything had to be counted again
Satori, D-ICE's maritime routing software, is sold as a SaaS. Its users run route calculations in it and, depending on the contract, part of the invoice depends on the number of calculations.
Every month, D-ICE's sales rep looked up the usage of more than 50 users in Satori, then copied it by hand into an Excel file to prepare the invoices. Several hours of work, and errors creeping into the amounts.
A dashboard for Satori usage
A separate application that the sales rep opens every month instead of the Excel file. It is organised in two spaces.
Delivered in 10 days, in June 2026.
- A global space: the number of calculations per period, per calculation type and per study
- A space per user: the detail of their calculations over the period
- For each user, the amount to invoice, already calculated
Before / after
Usage looked up in Satori every month
50+ users copied into Excel by hand
Amounts calculated in a spreadsheet, with errors
Product usage rebuilt by hand
Usage tracked in a dedicated application
No more manual entry
Amount to invoice shown for each user
Usage per period, per calculation type and per study
What it changed
- Several hours saved every monthFor the sales rep, who no longer looks anything up by hand.
- The amount to invoice shown for each userNo more retyping into Excel, so no more copying errors.
- A view of how Satori is actually usedD-ICE sees whether its product is used, by whom and for which calculations.
The solutions behind this project
A routing tool patched together from spreadsheets and Power BI, now software sold to shipowners. 3 months.
All case studiesCelaé, Modern Club, SatoriThree companies, three businesses with nothing in common. The same starting point: Excel files that were no longer enough.
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