The Tenant Billing Server is an enterprise component that manages the creation, suspension and billing of tenants using different payment backends. It requires a license with multi-tenancy support.
Backends
The Tenant Billing Server backends allow the Tenant Billing Server to manage multiple payment service providers at the same time. The backends themselves are stateless, and maintain tenant information using the tenant attributes.
Stripe
The Stripe backend provides billing and tenant management support using Stripe’s pricing plans using Stripe’s webhook functionality.
Tenants are created when a customer subscribes to a pricing plan which is enabled in the backend configuration. As long as the customer maintains their subscription and their payments are up to date, the tenant remains active. As soon as the subscription ends, the tenant is suspended until another subscription is created for the same customer. If the customer subscription is changed to a different pricing plan, the tenant will be upgraded automatically as well.
See Modeling subscriptions for more information about Stripe products, pricing plans and subscriptions. You can also refer to the Billing with Stripe guide which covers the creation of products, pricing plans and subscriptions in Stripe.
Pricing Plans
Both metered and and recurring plans are supported by the backend. The metered plans will report the number of registered devices as part of the billing, while the recurring plans are meant to be used as fixed cost plans.
Tenant Entity Limits
It is possible to limit the number of entities that a tenant can own using Stripe’s pricing plan metadata.