Choose your billing solution
Getting started with Airwallex Billing is easy, whether you want to build complex usage-based billing or simple subscriptions and invoices.
| One-off purchases (invoicing) | Subscriptions | Usage-based billing (coming soon) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Description | A single, non-recurring charge for a specific item or service. This is ideal for initial setup fees, hardware purchases, or individual product sales. | This is the classic model: customers pay a fixed, recurring fee at a set interval (like monthly or annually) for ongoing access to a service. | Customers pay based on their actual consumption of a specific metric (e.g., number of API calls, amount of data stored, or messages sent). Costs scale with value. |
| Best suited for | Any single transaction that doesn't require recurring access, such as consultancy fees, deposits, or one-time add-ons. | Products with predictable costs and fixed value, like streaming services, membership programs, or SaaS with unlimited use tiers. | Services where consumption is highly variable, like cloud computing, telecommunications, or complex software platforms (pay-as-you-go). |
| Airwallex setup | Requires a product, a one-off price, and a one-time invoice. | Requires a product, a recurring price, and a subscription. | Requires a product, a usage price, a subscription, and tracking of usage events & meters (coming soon). |
Invoicing
Generate invoices and get paid online with over 160+ payment methods.
- Create and send one-off or recurring invoices without code.
- Track payment status and due dates.
- Smart retries and automated email reminders for overdue invoices.
- Accept payments online via 160+ payment methods and reconcile them automatically.
- Issue credit notes and partial refunds.
Get started with Invoicing.
Subscriptions
Manage simple fixed price and multi-frequency subscription pricing models.
- Flexible pricing models, from simple flat fees, per unit rates, multi-frequency subscriptions.
- Easily offer discounts, free trials, and proration.
- Retry failed payments and send automatic email notifications, reminders, and invoices.
- Create meters to measure complex usage metrics and bill on actual consumption.
Get started with Subscriptions.
Usage-based billing
Track usage, calculate fees, and bill customers based on actual consumption. This feature will be available soon.
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