What problem does it solve?
This Skill streamlines the complex process of managing recurring payments, invoicing, and subscription lifecycles, reducing manual errors and improving cash flow.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Automated Billing Cycles: Manages monthly, annual, and custom billing periods.
- Subscription Management: Handles trial periods, active subscriptions, past-due states, and cancellations.
- Dunning Management: Automates failed payment recovery through retries and customer notifications.
- Proration: Calculates fair charges for mid-cycle plan changes or seat adjustments.
- Tax Calculation: Applies sales tax, VAT, and GST based on customer jurisdiction.
- Invoice Generation: Creates professional invoices in PDF or HTML formats.
- Usage-Based Billing: Tracks and bills for metered usage.
- Use Case: Implement a SaaS product's entire billing infrastructure, from onboarding new users with trial periods to automatically charging them, handling failed payments, and managing upgrades/downgrades.
Quick Start
Use the billing-automation skill to create a new monthly subscription for customer ID 'cus_123' on plan 'plan_pro_monthly' with a 14-day trial.