Billing and invoices
This is the account-level bill, not the toll. The toll pays your authors directly, wallet to wallet — see For authors for that. This page is about the plan your account runs on: what it costs, when it's actually invoiced, and how to pay it. Find it under Money → Billing.
Plans and periods
Single site is free. There's no subscription behind it, so there's never an invoice for it.
Studio and Enterprise run on a period — thirty days by default, or a year if that's the term you signed. What happens at the end of a period is different for each:
- Studio is only invoiced in a period where the toll paid your sites enough to clear a threshold. The number is published on /pricing, not here, because it's the kind of fact that should have exactly one home. Fall short of it and the period closes with nothing owed.
- Enterprise is sales-led — you're quoted a price and a term, and that's what gets billed, every period, on schedule. It isn't judged against what the toll moved that month, because Enterprise buys things like SSO, an audit log and compliance exports, which a buyer wants on day one regardless of traffic.
A handful of early accounts hold a plan that was granted directly rather than subscribed to. If that's you, there's no billing period behind it at all — nothing will ever be invoiced for that plan, full stop.
A quiet period isn't a missed payment
For Studio, falling short of the threshold isn't a warning sign and it isn't tracked against you. The period just closes unbilled, and the one after it is judged entirely on its own — there's no running tally, and no month you're behind on. Your plan doesn't pause, downgrade, or lose anything while this is true. Paying in one period never signs you up for the next; each one stands alone.
Paying an invoice
When a period does get billed, an open invoice shows up in your invoice history with an amount and a due date. Two ways to pay it, and which ones you'll actually see depends on how your account and region are set up:
With the USDC you already hold. The toll pays your authors on-chain, so by the time you're billed you likely already hold USDC from it. Send the invoice amount from a wallet you've proven you control — the same proof your payout wallet uses — to the address the page shows you, then paste the transaction hash back into the form. Nothing you type is trusted on its own: the server reads the transaction off the chain itself and only marks the invoice paid once it can see a real transfer, from your proven address, for the right amount, on the real network (never a test network, since faucet tokens can't be allowed to settle a real bill). Send less than the invoice and it stays open. Send more and the surplus isn't turned into a credit balance sitting somewhere — it's stated openly on the invoice and returned by hand, because there's no stored balance in this product for it to disappear into. And a transfer only ever settles the one invoice you sent it for, so if you're holding more than one open invoice, pay them separately.
With a card, where that's set up — a normal hosted checkout for the invoice amount. Some card providers refuse a charge under a floor of their own; where that applies the page says so, and a very small invoice is payable on-chain instead.
Paying an invoice, on either route, is limited to the account owner or a teammate holding the billing role — see Team and access. If neither payment route is available for your account yet, the invoice says so plainly and gives you an email address instead of a dead end.
If an invoice goes unpaid
What happens next depends on whether the plan is Studio or Enterprise.
Studio is never sent to collections and never flips to past-due for being slow to pay — there's no dunning state for it at all, because the whole design is that you're never billed more than you can already see you've earned. What non-payment does cost is new capacity: while an invoice is open, the account is frozen at its current size. You can't connect a new site or invite a new teammate until it's settled — nothing you already have shrinks, but nothing new gets added either.
Enterprise is billed on a schedule regardless of usage, so it behaves like a normal invoice: it goes past due after seven days, and if a full period rolls over still unpaid, the account reverts to the Single site plan at the next boundary. It's never cut off mid-period.
Requesting a plan never depends on any of this
None of the above touches whether you can ask for a bigger plan. Every tier is requestable at any time, from any account, at any level of earnings or invoice standing — the request button is never withheld for owing money or for not having earned enough yet. What the threshold and the invoice above decide is only whether this period gets billed for the plan you're already on, never whether you're allowed to have it.
Only the account owner can file the actual request — see Team and access for who holds which role. Once it's approved, the new plan is in effect immediately.
Invoice history
Every invoice you've ever been sent lives on the Billing page, newest first, with what's been paid in total and what's still outstanding shown at a glance. A voided invoice — superseded by a new one after a plan change — is shown struck through rather than removed, so the history stays complete. Each paid invoice shows how it was settled and, for an on-chain payment, links straight to the transaction on the relevant block explorer so you can check it yourself.