Founded

2010

Starting Price

0.7%

About Stripe Billing

Stripe Billing is the subscription billing engine within the Stripe payments platform. It handles the full billing lifecycle from creating subscription plans and generating invoices to recovering failed payments and managing customer self-service. It supports flat-rate, per-seat, usage-based, tiered, and hybrid pricing models with built-in dunning, smart retries, and revenue analytics.

Pros & Cons

Pros

Developer-friendly REST API with excellent documentation
Supports nearly every recurring pricing model without custom code
Smart retry and dunning recovers significant failed payments automatically
Hosted customer portal reduces subscription support burden
Deeply integrated with Stripe payments, tax, fraud, and analytics

Key Features

Flexible Pricing Models

Supports flat-rate, per-seat, usage-based, tiered, package, and hybrid plans without custom code

Automated Invoicing

Auto-generates invoices each billing period with support for custom one-off invoices

Smart Retries & Dunning

ML-driven retry logic recovers 41% of failed payments on average with automated dunning emails

Customer Portal

Hosted self-service portal for upgrades, downgrades, cancellations, and payment method updates

Proration & Plan Changes

Handles prorated charges and credits automatically when customers change plans mid-cycle

Multi-Currency & Global

Accept payments in 135+ currencies across 195+ countries

Revenue Recognition

Automated accrual accounting compliant with ASC 606 and IFRS 15

Pricing

Billing

0.7%/of billing volume

All subscription features
Smart retries & dunning
Customer portal
Analytics
API & webhooks

Best For

SaaS Subscription Monetization

Launch and manage monthly/annual subscription plans with upgrade/downgrade flows and free trials

Usage-Based Billing

Meter API calls, compute hours, or consumption metrics and generate invoices at thresholds

B2B Invoicing

Send quotes that auto-convert to subscriptions with net-30/60 payment terms

Failed Payment Recovery

Reduce involuntary churn with ML-optimized retry scheduling and branded dunning emails

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