A usage-based billing platform turns API calls, AI tokens and other usage into invoice lines. Eight questions to ask before choosing one, from event ingestion and pricing models to prepaid credits, rating, payment providers and deployment.
Billing Systems
Leaving SAP IS-M/MSD: subscription billing options for publishers before 2027
SAP ends mainstream maintenance for ECC at the end of 2027. What this means for publishers that run subscriptions on SAP IS-M/MSD, the three options for subscription billing, and what to check before choosing.
Two Minutes, Not Two Days: Billing Operations with Kill Bill, Kaui, and Aviate Admin
It’s 9:14 on a Tuesday and a customer wants to know why their invoice is wrong. It isn’t wrong. They upgraded from Starter to Business halfway through the month, so the invoice credits the...
Real-Time Usage Rating with Aviate — Any Event, Any Price, Any Business Model
The Problem We're Solving The world is full of businesses that need to charge for what customers actually use — minutes parked, gigabytes transferred, API calls made, kilowatt-hours...
Keeping Your Billing Platform Healthy: Introducing Aviate Health Monitoring
The Challenge of Monitoring a Billing Platform Monitoring a billing platform in production is different from running most other software systems: Standard observability tools —...
Two Days in Miami with ChaChing: Making Enterprise Billing Accessible
Over the past few years, we’ve had the chance to work closely with the team at ChaChing. It’s one of those collaborations that grew naturally over time through technical conversations,...
AI Usage Billing Made Simple with Kill Bill and Aviate
AI-based products introduce new billing challenges. Whether selling token usage, inference time, or API calls, providers must manage metering, prepaid credits, invoicing, and payments —...
How Kill Bill Handles Coupons, Discounts, and Price Overrides
The holidays can put quite the squeeze on one's wallet, what with buying gifts, traveling, and entertaining friends and family. It's a natural time of the year to offer your customers a...
Open-Source Plugins to Extend Kill Bill’s Functionality
In this post, we're going to go through our list of open-source plugins for Kill Bill and give you all the information you need to dig deep into plugins. But first, some exciting news! ...
Translating Invoices and Emails with Subscription Billing
When it comes to international subscription billing, customers prefer to receive communications in their native language. Kill Bill supports translating invoices and emails into multiple...