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Billing

Recurring revenue, billed exactly right.

Subscriptions, seats and usage-based pricing with trials, proration and retries built in. Change your pricing without changing your code.

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Change the pricing, watch the invoice.

Switch between flat plans, seats and usage to see how the next invoice is built, including proration for mid-cycle changes.

  • Flat, seat and usage pricing
  • Trials, renewals and retries
  • Prorated invoices
Seats at renewal8
Added mid-cycle3

Next invoice

Renews Oct 1

  • Team plan × 8 seats$12.00 per seat$96.00
  • 3 seats added Sep 16Prorated for 15 of 30 days$18.00
Total before tax$114.00

Tax is added for each customer's location at checkout.

Subscription lifecycle

One subscription over a year

Follow one customer through a year. Trials, upgrades, failed payments, pauses and cancellations each produce the right invoice and a webhook your app can act on.

What happened

Trialing

Trial started

Maria signs up for Pro with a 14-day trial. Her card is saved but not charged.

Invoice

No invoice for this event

Webhook

POST /webhooks/pandabase
{
  "type": "subscription.created",
  "data": {
    "status": "trialing",
    "plan": "pro_monthly",
    "trial_end": "2026-09-15"
  }
}

Prorations use the days left in the billing period.

Customer portal

A billing portal for your customers

A hosted portal for plan changes, cards, invoices and cancellations. Link to it from your app with one API call.

  • Plan changes with prorationCustomers upgrade or downgrade and see exactly what they'll pay today.
  • Offers before they cancelShow a discount or a pause based on why they want to leave.
  • Your brand, your domainUse your logo and colors, and serve it from your own subdomain.
billing.orbitnote.com

Current plan: Pro · $49.00/month

Days left this period
12
Due today
$60.00

Developers

The Billing API

Subscriptions, usage and the customer portal in a few calls, with SDKs for Node.js, Python and Go.

  • Trials with or without a card
  • Monthly, yearly or custom intervals
  • Proration on every plan change
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import Pandabase from "@pandabase/node";const pandabase = new Pandabase(process.env.PANDABASE_SECRET_KEY);const subscription = await pandabase.subscriptions.create({  customer: "cus_M42x",  items: [{ price: "price_pro_monthly" }],  trial_period_days: 14,  metadata: { workspace: "ws_orbitnote" },});console.log(subscription.status); // "trialing"

Start a subscription

Create a subscription with a trial. Pandabase charges the saved payment method when the trial ends and on every renewal.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Answers about subscriptions, proration and the customer portal. Ask us anything else.

  • Flat plans, per-seat pricing, usage-based pricing with included amounts and tiers, or a mix, like a platform fee plus usage. Plans can renew monthly, yearly or on a custom interval, with or without a trial.