Money
What you sell, what each plan unlocks, how spend is measured, and how people pay you.
Five screens decide the business rather than the product. They are the ones to get right before anybody is allowed to sign up, because a price changed later is easy and a free month given away by accident is not.
Plans & pricing
Money → Plans & pricing is the catalogue.
Number the plans in the order they should appear, from cheapest to most.
Mark one as featured. It is the one the pricing page points at.
Retire a plan rather than deleting it: existing accounts keep it, and it stops being offered.
Reset returns a plan to the values it shipped with, which is the fastest way to undo an experiment.
The allowance follows from the price, which is the rule that keeps credits proportional without anybody
maintaining a table. A plan can override it, and Money → Credits is where the rule itself is described.
Entitlements
Money → Entitlements is a matrix: plans down one side, features across the other. Turning a cell on saves
immediately.
| Feature | What it unlocks |
|---|---|
| Models, by weight | The everyday, heavy and frontier ends of the catalogue |
| Web search | Searching the web inside a turn |
| Image generation | Creating pictures |
| Large context | Carrying much more of a conversation into a turn |
| Priority queue | Being served before accounts on lighter plans |
| Shared projects | Sharing a project with somebody else |
| Shared library | Sharing files and folders |
This is the screen that decides whether a plan is cheap or expensive in practice, because it is what a heavy model actually costs in credits that makes a plan generous or thin.
Credits
Money → Credits explains and controls spend.
| Part | What it does |
|---|---|
| Allowance rules | How many credits a plan's price grants, and over what window |
| Granted, spent, in flight | The three numbers that answer "where did it go" |
| Movements | The ledger: every grant, every top-up, every charge |
| Top-up | Add credits to one account by email, by hand, when you decide to |
| Ceiling | A per-account limit, or a whole-installation one |
The window resets weekly, on Monday at 00:00 UTC. Whatever a plan grants is granted for that window, and what is
not used does not roll over. Insight → Overview is the same numbers as a dashboard.
In flight is not spent
A running turn reserves credits against itself and settles when it finishes. An installation with a busy minute therefore looks like it spent more than it did, and the ledger is the honest answer rather than the dashboard.
Payments
Money → Payments connects the money.
| Setting | What it decides |
|---|---|
| Gateways | Which providers are offered, and each one's keys |
| Mode | Test or live, per gateway |
| Tax | Whether prices include tax, and the rate that applies |
| Coupons | Discounts, their limits and their expiry |
| Dunning | What happens when a payment fails, and how many times to try |
Until a gateway is configured, the pricing page says billing is not ready rather than offering a button that fails. That is deliberate: an installation that cannot take money should say so.
Invoices & receipts
Money → Invoices is the record: every payment, searchable, with the ability to refund one, and to download a
receipt as a PDF or the whole list as CSV. It is the screen that answers a customer who writes in about a
charge, and the one an accountant will ask for.
The order to set this up in
Plans & pricing: create the plans and the prices before anybody signs up.
Entitlements: decide what each plan unlocks, which is what keeps the prices honest.
Credits: check the allowance rule, and set a ceiling for the installation if you want one.
Payments: connect a gateway in test mode, make one test purchase, then switch it to live.
Invoices: after the first real payment, confirm the receipt looks right.
Three irreversible things in this group
Refunding moves money and cannot be un-refunded from here. Retiring a plan is reversible, and deleting one is not offered for the reason that accounts on it would be left without one. Changing a live gateway's mode affects the next checkout rather than existing subscriptions, which is worth knowing before a launch.