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No usage-based pricing
Engineers calculating usage by hand and sending manual invoices.
Manual invoicing, involuntary churn and sales tax exposure
Stripe Billing and usage metering architecture
Rebuild your billing on Stripe: subscriptions and usage-based metering, tax calculation, a self-serve customer portal and automatic retries for failed payments.
Symptoms
Signs your platform has this problem
If several of these sound familiar, the plan below is where we would start.
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Involuntary churn
Revenue lost to expired and declined cards without automatic retries.
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Sales tax and VAT exposure
Tax not calculated correctly as you sell into more regions.
Remediation plan
How we fix it, step by step
Each phase ends with a measurement, so you can see what changed before the next one starts.
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Product catalog and pricing
Modeling subscription tiers, add-ons and metered usage in Stripe Billing.
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Usage reporting
Reporting consumption events to Stripe's metering API with idempotency keys.
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Customer portal
A self-serve portal where customers update cards and change plans.
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Stripe Tax and Smart Retries
Turning on automatic tax calculation and machine-learning-based retry schedules.
Technical checklist
Remediation checklist
What we check before a change goes to production:
- Configure the product catalog with metered prices
- Report usage idempotently, so retries never double-bill
- Embed the customer portal for card updates and invoices
- Turn on Stripe Tax and Smart Retries for failed renewals
What we measure
We take a baseline first and report the same measurements after each change, from your own monitoring — evidence, not promised results.
- Recovered revenue
- Failed payments later recovered, from Stripe reports
- Billing tickets
- Support tickets about invoices and cards, per month
- Webhook errors
- Failed or duplicated webhook processing events
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Custom software
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Questions about this remediation
Your application reports usage events to Stripe's metering API as they happen; Stripe aggregates them and bills customers on their invoice cycle.
A hosted, secure self-serve page where customers manage their subscriptions and payment methods and download past invoices.
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