More time building. Less time billing.
Orb provides scalable, reliable billing infrastructure that helps avoid engineering teams having to handle data pulls or calculate corrections.
The problem
Billing isn’t your competitive moat
In-house billing infrastructure and simple metering tools take heavy engineering resources to maintain, but don’t capitalize on your biggest competitive advantages.
Instead, engineers are left implementing updates, fixing errors, and maintaining pipelines instead of shipping products.
The solution
Scale billing, not maintenance time
- Self service for finance and product teams: In-UI price and plan management to lower ticket volumes
- More accurate, less manual: Orb reduces the manual work of correcting invoicing errors
- Robust and audit-worthy: Orb versions pricing plans and logs adjustments to leave a clear paper trail for invoices
Our secret sauce
Orb uses a raw data layer to power accurate, granular metering
While most billing engines only store events in aggregate, Orb can surface a log of every event at any time. That means Orb maintains more accurate, granular data.
Plan & forecast more accurately
Tying usage to revenue data creates a powerful analytics hub—for you and your customers. Orb can store any non-billable event data you define—like location, team, or other pivots that are useful for planning.
Send accurate invoices
Orb’s persistent data store enables backdating of price changes and maintains an audit trail when prices or invoices change.
Simulate on real data for safer price changes
Make your revenue data work for you by simulating new pricing models over your real event data. Understand the impacts to any plan, customer, or product before you go live.
Scalable ingest
Real-time access to petabtyes of data
Orb’s standard billing engine is built to handle high-volume events and adapt to usage spikes.
For even higher volumes, we offer additional aggregation capabilities that can ingest billions of events per day.
No matter the ingest structure you choose, Orb is designed to surface these events quickly to support financial analysis and real-time invoicing.
SQL-based metrics
Bill without boundaries
Orb can bill any metric that can be queried, including billing period averages, maximums, minimums, and more. This gives you more flexibility for defining your value metrics and testing creative pricing models.
Diff-based engine
Preview, stage, or rollback changes to keep billing correct
- Pending Changes allow previews of subscription changes, with draft invoices you can review
- Dry runs enable you to check the impact of a request before implementing
- Endpoint Previews simulate the result of an API call before it runs
“Billing is complex. You can’t predict every pricing model you might want to try down the line. If your answer to every new idea is ‘that’ll take two months to build’, you’re slowing the business down.”
Nate Graff
Senior Engineering Manager
Outdated revenue
stacks can’t keep up
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