Compliance-Aware Monetization Workflows in Multi-Tenant SaaS Platforms: A Review
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https://doi.org/10.22399/ijcesen.4126Keywords:
Compliance-aware monetization, multi-tenant SaaS, policy-as-code, data residency, adaptive pricing, contract governance, revenue assurance, jurisdictional control, billing compliance, observability, SaaS pricingAbstract
With a growing complexity and geographic dispersion of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms, they have to perform workflows of monetizing, and the issue that has recently become of primary concern is the implementation of monetization processes governed by regional legislation and tenant-specific policies. Monetization that is conscious of compliance in multi-tenant SaaS systems is a meeting of the functions of financial operations, legal boundaries, and changing cloud design. This review explores the essential elements that make such workflows possible, such as policy-as-code compliance, jurisdiction data controls, a la carte pricing, contract-based billing, observability, and revenue attestation. The article explains, by the criterion of analysis of peer-reviewed articles by the main academic journals, how compliance-sensitive monetization pipelines need to evolve to embrace data residency requirements, industry compliance, cross-tenant diversity, and audits. It focuses on the architectural and operational trends that assist in the support of scalable, transparent, and lawfully supported monetization trends of SaaS environments. Future-focused areas of discussion, including what may be introduced in terms of AI-driven entitlement optimization, explainable billing policies, and standardized governance models, are also discussed, providing a roadmap that organizations can utilize in order to modernize and de-risk the SaaS billing operations, especially in environments that are compliance-centric.
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