billing-automation

What problem does it solve?

This skill helps you build comprehensive automated billing systems, managing recurring payments, invoice generation, dunning, proration, and tax calculation, reducing manual effort and ensuring financial accuracy.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Subscription Lifecycle Management: Handle trial periods, activations, cancellations, and status changes for subscriptions.
• Automated Invoicing & Payment Processing: Generate detailed invoices, attempt payments, and manage successful or failed transactions.
• Dunning Management: Implement automated retry schedules and customer notifications to recover failed payments.
• Use Case: You're launching a SaaS product with monthly subscriptions. Use this skill to design a billing engine that processes monthly cycles, generates invoices, handles failed payments with a dunning process, and calculates prorated charges for plan upgrades.

Quick Start

Use the billing-automation skill to create a new subscription for customer 'cus_123' on a 'plan_pro_monthly' plan with a 14-day trial.