Usage and billing behavior
Billing cycles, proration, wallet, and how subscription changes become Stripe invoices on dFlow Cloud.
This page explains when and why charges appear. Amounts and tax are always on the invoice and in Stripe.
Billing cycle
New subscriptions are anchored to a monthly boundary (first day of the next calendar month, UTC, in the current server implementation). The Subscriptions view notes that recurring invoices align with monthly cycles. Your Invoices page lists actual issue and due dates.
Automatic collection
Subscriptions use Stripe charge automatically. The default payment method pays open invoices on success. If Stripe cannot charge, see Failed payments.
Plan and add-on changes
When you upgrade a plan or change add-on quantities, Stripe updates
subscription items. The product often uses proration behaviours such as
always_invoice so partial-period differences become immediate invoice lines or
adjustments. The exact proration lines appear on the next relevant invoice.
Subscription schedules can stage future phases (for example next-cycle plan changes). When a schedule is active, upcoming items may display in the product before they bill.
Compute credits and line items
Compute credits reduce the cash portion of eligible Worker Node purchases. Implementation applies credits as invoice items that offset price data for the charge. See Compute credits.
Wallet balance
Wallet reflects Stripe customer balance (stored in cents internally, displayed as currency in the UI). Promotions, top-ups, or adjustments can change it. Wallet does not auto-pay open invoices. Failed charges follow Stripe Smart Retry, then Stripe cancel (Failed payments).
Wallet is not the same ledger as compute credits, though both affect out-of-pocket cost.
Usage metadata
Stripe subscription metadata includes a type field for some products (for example distinguishing Worker Node style subscriptions). Platform usage subscriptions follow the same Stripe retry and cancel rules as other automatic collection invoices.
Upcoming invoice reminders
The platform can enqueue upcoming invoice reminder jobs so you receive notice before large renewals. Email and in-app messaging depend on configuration; keep contact info current under Profile → Account.