August was about making Freemius easier to integrate, more localized for buyers, and more flexible for makers.
The biggest update is Freemius AI Agent Skills. It lets coding agents integrate payments, subscriptions, entitlements, checkout, and customer management into a SaaS product without having to figure out the Freemius APIs from scratch.
We also added Swiss Franc and Serbian Dinar support and gave makers more control over annual renewal emails. We shipped a collection of smaller improvements across the Developer Dashboard and Checkout, too.
Integrate Freemius with your SaaS using AI Agent Skills
Integrating payments and monetization into a new SaaS product shouldn’t require you to spend hours reading documentation before you can start selling.
That’s the idea behind Freemius AI Agent Skills: a reusable set of instructions that helps AI coding agents integrate Freemius into your software.
Instead of figuring out the integration patterns yourself, you can give your coding agent a simple prompt, install the Freemius AI Agent Skills package, and let the agent implement the integration.
The skills work with coding agents including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, and more.
They help your agent implement the complete monetization flow, including:
- Pricing tables: Display your plans and start the Checkout flow directly from your SaaS.
- Checkout: Add Freemius Checkout in overlay mode so customers can purchase without leaving your application.
- Entitlements: Gate premium features and actions based on a customer’s plan.
- Customer Portal: Embed a customer portal where customers can manage, upgrade, or downgrade their subscriptions.
The goal is simple: make integrating monetization feel like part of building the product, rather than a separate project you have to figure out afterward.
AI-assisted development lets you build products faster. Your payments and monetization infrastructure shouldn’t slow you down.
Sell in Swiss Franc and Serbian Dinar
We’re continuing to expand Freemius Checkout’s local currency support. This month, we added Swiss Franc (CHF) and Serbian Dinar (RSD). That makes it easier for makers to offer localized pricing to customers in Switzerland and Serbia.
To enable either currency, go to Developer Dashboard → Plans → Pricing and add the currency to your pricing.
If you’d like Freemius to support another local currency, let us know.
Customize your annual renewal reminder email
Freemius automatically sends subscribers an email before an annual subscription renews. The reminder tells customers when an upcoming charge is scheduled and it can reduce unexpected renewals, churn, and payment disputes.
Starting this month, makers can customize that email.
You can use the additional space to remind customers about the value they’re getting from your product, highlight features you’ve released over the past year, or share other relevant information before their subscription renews.
To customize it, go to Developer Dashboard → Emails → Specific Email Customization and select the Annual renewal reminder email.
It’s another opportunity to give customers a reason to keep using your product before the next renewal.
Other improvements
August also included several smaller improvements and fixes across Freemius.
Developer Dashboard
- Smarter multi-currency pricing cloning: You can now clone new currencies from your first available currency instead of requiring USD, while preserving pricing conventions like whole numbers and .99 endings.
- Customer-facing license keys can now be disabled for apps: Makers who manage licensing themselves can hide license keys from customer emails and the Customer Portal and use events and webhooks for their own automation.
- Improved refund handling and team member management: Partial refunds for lifetime payments now process correctly. The team member UI also makes Freemius account requirements clearer.
Checkout
- Fixed incorrect pricing in license renewal Checkout: Fixed an edge case where incomplete or invalid pricing configurations could appear incorrectly during license renewals.
Making monetization easier
A lot landed this month. AI Agent Skills make it easier to integrate Freemius into new SaaS products. Local currency support now reaches Switzerland and Serbia. Makers also have more control over renewals and licensing. Together, these updates make it easier to start selling and keep your monetization experience working.
As always, what you’re running into shapes what’s next — so keep the feedback coming.
