The Intelligent Subscription & License Platform.
Chargebee and Recurly charge you a flat fee AND a percentage of every dollar you collect — then leave you exporting CSVs to sync a failed payment with your CRM or support desk. Aeion Billing runs module license lifecycle, dunning with auto-retry, Stripe integration, real-time limit enforcement, and the billing queue natively inside Aeion OS, so a failed payment can open a Helpdesk ticket and a usage spike can throttle itself automatically — no percentage cut, no CSV exports, no systems to reconcile.
Intelligent Subscription Operations
Module License Management
Every tenant's subscription is a single source of truth — creation, trial, upgrade, downgrade, and cancellation all flow through one license record instead of scattered feature flags across your codebase. Stripe sync keeps that record accurate automatically, so support never has to guess whether a customer's plan actually matches what they're being charged for.
Dunning Automation
A card decline doesn't have to mean losing the customer. Failed payments are retried on an intelligent schedule — 1 day, then 3, then 7 — with the account staying active the whole time, and only suspended automatically if every retry fails. Recovery-rate analytics show exactly how much revenue the retry schedule is rescuing that a one-and-done charge attempt would have written off.
Billing Queue
Billing operations that would choke a synchronous request — retry scheduling, subscription reconciliation, invoice generation, usage aggregation — run through a background queue built for high-throughput event processing, so a spike in renewals or a batch of dunning retries never slows down checkout for anyone else.
Limit Enforcement
Set a usage ceiling per module and it's enforced in real time — auto-throttling or blocking the moment a tenant crosses their configured threshold, instead of discovering at month-end that someone blew past their plan. No manual usage audits, no surprise true-up invoice.
Subscription Tracking
Activation, renewal, cancellation, and grace-period handling are tracked automatically and kept in lockstep with Stripe's subscription state — so "is this customer actually active" is always a real-time answer, not a query you have to reconcile against a payment processor's dashboard.
Stripe Integration
Subscriptions, customers, prices, and webhooks are handled natively, with SCA-ready 3D Secure support built in — so European card regulations and bank authentication challenges get handled automatically instead of causing checkout failures you find out about from an angry customer.
Usage-Based Billing
Bill on what customers actually use — API calls, storage, seats, whatever your product meters — with configurable overage calculation that turns raw usage numbers into an accurate invoice automatically, no manual metering spreadsheet required.
Billing Subsystems
License Engine
License lifecycle, Stripe integration, feature flags
Job Queue
Batch processing, retries, reconciliation
Approvals
Approval policies, escalation queue (governance)
Dunning
Payment retry scheduling, auto-suspend
Subscriptions
Subscription lifecycle, Stripe sync
Limit Enforcer
Real-time usage limit enforcement
The Math Behind Switching
$25,000/year saved
the combined cost of Chargebee's base subscription plus its cut of every dollar collected, eliminated entirely.
Fewer failed payments
the auto-retry dunning schedule is designed to recover cards that a single-attempt charge would have written off as churn.
$180,000 recovered
in payments that would otherwise have been lost to a first-decline cancellation.
$50,000/year in prevented overages
real-time limit enforcement catches usage past plan before it becomes a disputed surprise invoice.
10,000 billing events/hour
processed through the queue without degrading checkout performance anywhere else on the platform.
Frequently Asked Questions
Stripe Billing is excellent for credit-card subscription management. Recurly adds dunning. Aeion Billing covers both AND ties natively to your CRM, Commerce, and Helpdesk — a subscription change becomes a CRM activity, a failed payment opens a Helpdesk ticket, a usage-based plan reads usage from any other Aeion module. No CSV exports between systems.
Yes — metered billing with any Aeion module as the usage source. The billing engine reads the meter (call count, storage GB, active users) at the period close and generates the invoice. Tiered pricing ("first 10K free, next 100K at $0.001, above that $0.0005") is first-class.
Yes — configurable retry schedule (default: 1d, 3d, 7d — 3 retries before auto-suspend), customer-facing card-update reminder emails, downgrade-on-final-failure rules, optional grace-period preservation of features. Each step emits events so you can fire downstream automation (Helpdesk ticket, CSM alert).
Daily-prorated. Upgrade mid-month gets immediate access + prorated charge for the remaining days of the billing cycle. Downgrade keeps current plan until period end then transitions. Refund-on-downgrade is configurable per plan.
Multi-tenant sub-billing for wholesaler and marketplace models is on our roadmap. Split payments via Stripe Connect aren't available yet — if you need a marketplace model, talk to us about your timeline.
Native integration with the Aeion Tax module — sales tax (US state + local), VAT (EU + UK), GST (India / Australia / Canada), digital service tax in EU jurisdictions, and per-state nexus tracking. Tax engine handles tax-exempt customers, B2B reverse-charge VAT, and per-jurisdiction tax rate updates.