Concepts

Key concepts and terminology

Accounts

Accounts hold information about your customers.

Invoices

Invoices calculate and capture the revenue from customer purchases. Invoices can be created manually or automatically based on subscriptions.

Subscriptions

Subscriptions describe a recurring billing relationship with a customer.

Products

Products describe the items you are selling to your customers. Products can have one or more prices detailing how much they cost and how often they are billed.

Prices

Prices describe how much a customer pays for a product and how often they are billed. Prices can be flat, per-unit, package, volume, graduated, or percentage.

Plans

Plans bundle products together for subscriptions.

Payment links are no-code, Billingrails-hosted links you share with customers to make one-time payments or sign up for subscriptions.

Payment routing

Payment routing is the process of routing payments to the appropriate payment provider. Billingrails supports routing payments to multiple payment providers, allowing you to use the payment provider that best fits your needs.

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