Payments & Billing

How Forte bills you, and charging your own users.

How does Forte billing work?

What Forte charges for, how compute is metered, and where to see your current usage and invoices.

How do I charge my users with payments?

Take payments from your end users with Stripe built in — no separate Stripe account, Connect onboarding, or webhook endpoint to host.

How much does it cost to run a service?

Services bill on two tiers: a base rate for keeping instances warm, plus an active rate while they're processing requests. The default size (0.25 vCPU, 0.5 GB)…

How do subscriptions work?

You define the recurring price as line items with a monthly or yearly interval. The first charge is confirmed in the browser with Stripe Elements, which also…

How do I refund a payment?

Call refundPayment from your backend (or use the Refund action on the user's page in the console) — refunds are full, only COMPLETED payments qualify, and the…

Can my users pay from a bank account?

Yes — pass ACH_DIRECT_DEBIT in supportedPaymentMethods when creating the payment, and the Stripe Payment Element offers a US bank account option next to cards.…