3 Ways to Control Your SaaS Payments Without Opening a Dashboard

I manage a SaaS on Creem. I used to have the dashboard open all day. Now I don't open it at all. The Creem CLI gives you three increasingly powerful ways to manage payments: direct commands, --json | jq pipelines for automation, and an MCP server that lets Claude or Cursor manage your store through natural language. Here's the full playbook. Setup (2 minutes) brew tap armitage-labs/creem brew install creem creem login --api-key creem_test_xxx creem whoami Switch between test and live: creem config set environment test # test-api.creem.io creem config set environment live # api.creem.io creem config show # verify current state Level 1: Direct Commands Every resource — products, subscriptions, customers, transactions, discounts — is a subcommand: creem products list # Table view creem subs list --status active # Filter subscriptions creem customers list # All customers creem txn list --limit 5 # Recent transactions creem discounts get --code LAUNCH20 # Look up a discount Run any resource