Billing & credit

MicroApps runs on prepaid credit. You top up an amount, usage accrues by the hour, and nothing recharges on its own. No autorenew, no monthly contract, no surprise card charge.

How charges work

• Every pod accrues an hourly rate for its compute size and its storage.
• The running total shows on the Billing page as this month's usage.
• At the start of the next month you get an invoice for that usage, settled from your credit and downloadable as a PDF. Your balance moves when the invoice settles, not hour by hour.

You need at least $3 of credit to create billable resources (or to clone or restore a pod). For actual rates, see the pricing page; the billing model explains what is billed and what is free.

Adding credit

1. Go to Billing and choose Add credit.
2. Enter any whole-dollar amount from $3 to $10,000. There are no fixed packages - pick what suits you.
3. You are sent to Stripe Checkout to pay.
4. Stripe brings you back to the console and your credit lands within a moment.

We never see your card details - Stripe handles the payment end to end.

No auto-recharge

Credit only goes up when you top it up. If you would rather not think about it, add a comfortable buffer and set a low-credit alert (below).

Reading your balance and usage

The Billing page shows:

• Available credit - what is left on the account.
• This month's usage - what you have run up so far this calendar month.
• Transactions - every top-up and its status.
• Invoices - one per month, each downloadable as a PDF.

Alerts (they only notify)

MicroApps never tops up or charges you automatically, so alerts are how you stay ahead of an empty balance. In your notification settings you can:

• Set a low-credit threshold - get pinged when credit drops below it.
• Set a high-usage threshold - get pinged when the month's usage climbs past it.
• Add an alert webhook - Slack, Discord, or any endpoint that accepts JSON - to get alerts in your team chat instead of, or as well as, email.

Monitoring alerts (domain uptime, resource and mailbox usage) are emailed to the account owner and delivered to the same webhook. Crossing a threshold sends a notification. That is all it does; it never moves money.

When credit runs low

Set the alerts above so you see it coming. If credit runs out:

• New billable actions (create, clone, restore) are blocked with a "top up first" error until you are back above $3.
• Existing pods keep running - nothing is stopped or deleted.
• Your monthly invoice waits as pending until your balance covers it. While it waits, top-ups smaller than the pending amount are rejected - add enough to cover the invoice and everything settles.

Do it from the API

You can read stats, list invoices and transactions, and open a checkout session from the billing API.