SaaS dashboard

A multi-tenant subscription product: organizations with members and invitations, role-based access inside each organization, usage metering, and plan limits. Tenancy must be designed in from day one.

You can change every choice once the builder opens.

Core features for the MVP

Organizations, each with members and roles
Invitation flow for adding members by email
Every query scoped to the current organization, enforced on the server
Plans with limits, and enforcement when a limit is reached
Usage metering recorded per organization
Dashboard with the metrics the product is about
Organization switcher for users belonging to more than one
Audit log of administrative actions within an organization

Left for later

Self-service subscription upgrade and downgrade
Single sign-on for enterprise customers
Custom roles defined per organization
Public API with per-organization keys

Recommended stack

Section	Recommended
Language	TypeScript
Frontend framework	Next.js
UI and styling	Tailwind CSSshadcn/ui
Backend	Next.js server
API style	tRPC
Database engine	PostgreSQL
Database provider	Neon
ORM and data access	Drizzle
Caching	Upstash Redis
Authentication	Clerk
Authorization and roles	Organization and team rolesRole-based access control
Security	Input validationRate limitingCORS and CSRF protectionSecurity headers and CSPSecrets managementAudit logs
File storage	AWS S3
Background jobs and cron	Inngest
Email and notifications	Resend
Payments	Stripe
Hosting and deployment	Vercel
CI/CD	GitHub Actions
Monitoring and analytics	SentryPostHog
Testing	VitestPlaywright
Extras	Accessibility (WCAG)BackupsDocumentationCSV and Excel import/export

Data model draft

Organization

A customer account. The tenancy boundary for every other record.

id
name
slug
plan
createdAt
suspendedAt

Has many Memberships
Has many Invitations
Has many UsageRecords

User

A person, who may belong to several organizations.

id
authProviderId
email
fullName
createdAt

Has many Memberships

Membership

Links a user to an organization with a role.

id
organizationId
userId
role
joinedAt

Belongs to one Organization
Belongs to one User

Invitation

A pending invite to join an organization.

id
organizationId
email
role
tokenHash
expiresAt
acceptedAt
invitedById

Belongs to one Organization
Invited by one User

UsageRecord

A metered event counted against a plan limit.

id
organizationId
metric
quantity
recordedAt

Belongs to one Organization