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Billing & Subscription Platform

This page describes the ConnectSoft Billing & Subscription Platform — a production-ready billing and subscription management solution with usage tracking, invoicing, and multi-tenant isolation. It is written for product managers, architects, and teams evaluating billing solutions.

The Billing & Subscription Platform provides a unified API for managing subscriptions, tracking usage, generating invoices, and handling per-tenant billing across all ConnectSoft SaaS products.

What This Platform Does

The Billing & Subscription Platform provides:

  • Subscription Management - Create, update, and manage subscriptions with plans and editions
  • Usage Tracking - Track usage metrics and consumption for metered billing
  • Billing & Invoicing - Generate invoices, handle billing cycles, and manage payments
  • Per-Tenant Billing - Complete tenant isolation with per-tenant billing and invoicing
  • Plan Management - Define and manage subscription plans, editions, and pricing tiers
  • Usage Limits - Enforce usage limits and quotas based on subscription tier

Core Features

  • Subscription Lifecycle - Create, activate, suspend, cancel subscriptions
  • Plan & Edition Management - Define plans, editions, and pricing tiers
  • Usage Metering - Track usage metrics (API calls, storage, features, etc.)
  • Invoice Generation - Automatic invoice generation and delivery
  • Payment Processing - Integration with payment gateways for payment processing
  • Usage Limits - Enforce limits and quotas based on subscription tier
  • Billing Cycles - Support for monthly, annual, and custom billing cycles
  • Observability - Distributed tracing, metrics, and structured logging

Typical Integrations

Subscription Management

  • Create and manage subscriptions
  • Plan upgrades and downgrades
  • Subscription cancellation and renewal

Usage Tracking

  • Track API usage
  • Track feature usage
  • Track storage and resource consumption

Billing & Payments

  • Invoice generation
  • Payment processing
  • Payment gateway integration

Ideal Use Cases

  • SaaS Subscription Billing - Manage subscriptions for all ConnectSoft SaaS products
  • Usage-Based Billing - Track and bill for usage-based consumption
  • Multi-Product Billing - Handle billing across multiple SaaS products
  • Per-Tenant Billing - Isolated billing per tenant with custom plans

SaaS Consumers by Cycle

Cycle 1: AI Factory SaaS

  • AI Factory SaaS uses Billing Platform for Factory subscription billing and usage tracking

Cycle 2: Horizontal SaaS

  • Digital Marketing Hub - Subscription billing for marketing plans and usage tracking
  • Short Links Platform - Subscription billing for link plans and click-based usage
  • Workflow Orchestrator - Subscription billing for workflow plans and execution usage
  • Headless CMS - Subscription billing for CMS plans and content usage
  • CRM / Contacts Hub - Subscription billing for CRM plans and contact usage

Cycle 3: AI & First Vertical

  • AI Bot Framework - Subscription billing for bot plans and conversation usage
  • AI Marketing Copilot - Subscription billing for AI features and usage
  • Digital Forms SaaS - Subscription billing for form plans and submission usage
  • Insurance Suite - Subscription billing for insurance plans and policy usage

Cycle 4: Marketplaces & Ecosystem

  • All marketplace products use Billing Platform for subscription billing
  • Integration Platform - Subscription billing for integration plans and connector usage
  • Support & Self-Service Platform - Subscription billing for support plans
  • Vertical suites (AdTech, HR) - Subscription billing for vertical product plans

Relationship to the Factory

The Billing & Subscription Platform is built by the Factory and demonstrates billing and subscription patterns. All Factory-generated SaaS products integrate with Billing Platform for subscription management.