5 common SaaS tasks and How to solve them with Django

As an indie hacker, you should maximize your efficiency; otherwise, you won’t get very far. Things like payments, sign-ups, mailing, and task scheduling are integral parts of almost all SaaS applications. Instead of reinventing the wheel and coding them from scratch, you can use a reliable solution proven over time.

1. Collecting money The easiest way to collect money in your SaaS application is through Stripe integration. Stripe API is great and easy to use by itself, but there is a package for Django that makes it even easier — dj-stripe. It automatically syncs Stripe entities with your database.

2. Social authentication It’s important to provide a quick and easy way for users to sign up for your application. People are so used to logging in through social media accounts that not having this option might drop your conversion rates.

Lucky for us, there is django-allauth package. It does all the dirty work of integration for you and lets you connect to all major social login providers.

It also comes with other cool features like email confirmation, forgot password, and many more.

3. Sending emails Emails are an integral part of any SaaS application. There are a lot of services you can use for that. Django-anymail provides integrations for all major email service providers. Eliminates the need for you to manually add support for the email service that you want to use.

4. Creating a multi-tenant application If you need to isolate data for different clients, a Multi-tenant architecture is what you need. And django-tenants allows you to quickly create multi-tenant SaaS applications through database schemas in PostgreSQL.

5. Scheduling and repetitive tasks Send a new discount offer, remind users about forgotten items in the cart, or run a heavy calculation at night when there is less traffic — for all of these applications and more, you’ll need a way to schedule tasks to run in the background.

Celery is usually used for that, and django-celery-beat lets you monitor and interact with your scheduled tasks using the admin panel. It really helps with the management of your Celery tasks.

Read the full article here: https://medium.com/@am2601/5-common-saas-tasks-and-how-to-solve-them-with-django-69e598f990f3