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Show HN: Credit-to-currency conversion controls for wallet-based billing

http://Link:admin.flexprice.io

If you sell credits or tokens, at some point someone asks: “What is one credit actually worth?”We shipped explicit Wallet Conversion Rate controls in Flexprice to answer that cleanly.Each wallet can now define: • conversion_rate — how credits map to currency when spending • topup_conversion_rate — optional rate used only when adding creditsThis supports use cases like promotional top-ups,...

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Pricing changes are easy in slides. Expensive in production.

Show HN: Custom Pricing Units in Flexprice (price in credits, bill in USD)

https://flexprice.io/

Hi HN, working in the monetization field, we kept seeing the same problem.Product teams want to price in credits or tokens. Finance wants clean USD accounting. Engineering ends up stitching conversion logic across services, and over time rounding errors, inconsistent invoices, and reconciliation headaches creep in.So we added Custom Pricing Units to Flexprice!You can now define your own unit...

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Interesting pricing contrast. How are you thinking about sustainability as usage scales compared to X’s per-tweet pricing?
Credit-based pricing makes sense when costs swing this much per request. Otherwise you end up subsidizing heavy users. If anyone’s looking to avoid reinventing this logic, worth checking out Flexprice.

Show HN: A customer billing portal built to reduce "can you resend the invoice?

https://flexprice.io/

Hey HN,A recurring problem we kept running into with billing systems was the human layer around them.Customers asking: “What’s my current balance?”“Which invoice is pending?”“Why did usage spike last week?”And the answer was usually someone digging through dashboards, exporting PDFs, or pasting screenshots.So we built a read-only customer billing portal inside Flexprice (open-source metering +...

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Show HN: Nomod payment integrated into usage-based billing stack

http://Link:admin.flexprice.io

Hi HN,We just shipped a Nomod integration in Flexprice. For context, flexprice is an open-source billing system that handles invoices, usage, and credit wallets. One gap we wanted to close was supporting region-specific payment providers without breaking billing state.With this integration: - Invoices finalized in Flexprice can be synced to Nomod - A hosted Nomod payment link is generated for...

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Show HN: Checkout Flow for credit-based billing

https://flexprice.io/

Hi HN,We’ve been working on credit-based billing systems, and one recurring issue we kept running into was how messy credit purchases become once real payments are involved.Credits are easy when they’re manual or promotional. Things get complicated when customers need to: - buy credits through a proper checkout, - receive an invoice, - complete payment asynchronously, and only then have...

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This breaks the principle of value alignment. Developers value API credits and rate limits, not storage or web UIs. When pricing ignores that, it creates double pay and churn.