About billing

Kinde billing gives you the ability to charge customers for your services and collect revenue.

As part of using this feature, you can:

• Create and manage plans, and make them visible to your customers
• Create and customize a pricing table for plan selection
• Implement specific pricing models to suit your product
• Offer free trial periods that automatically convert to paid subscriptions (beta)
• Offer annual subscriptions with custom yearly pricing (beta)
• Use Stripe for secure handling of payments and invoicing
• Link organizations (B2B) and individual customers (B2C) to a plan
• Handle plan upgrade, downgrade, and cancellation
• Enable self-serve account management for customers
• Customize the pricing table to make the whole experience on-brand

Trial periods and annual subscriptions are beta features. Contact Kinde support at support@kinde.com to get them enabled and help us test them.

Billing makes the Kinde platform the essential development infrastructure for managing the customer lifecycle across every part of your business. From registration to plan selection, authorization to provisioning, releases to upgrades.

How is sales tax or VAT handled in Kinde billing?

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Subscription charges and invoices are processed through Stripe as part of Kinde billing. How tax is calculated, shown on invoices, and collected depends on your Stripe account configuration—for example tax registrations, Stripe Tax, and invoice settings—not on separate tax controls in the Kinde plan builder.

Use the Stripe Dashboard for your connected account to align tax behavior with your regions and compliance needs (including whether prices are tax-inclusive or tax-exclusive). If you need help mapping this to your Kinde plans, contact support@kinde.com.

Known limitations

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These are current limitations that we are aware of and are working on adding.

• Custom billing intervals (e.g., quarterly) are not supported. Fixed charges are limited to daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly intervals.
• Changes to the billing cycle (e.g. choose billing anniversaries, etc.)
• Add-ons and discounts that can be applied to individual subscriptions

This is our first billing release

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Billing is a really complex area of app development, so while this release is tested and ready, we are actively working on improvements from day one.

How to send feedback

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We’d appreciate your feedback—please send it to support@kinde.com so we can quickly collect and prioritize improvements.