Distilled is prepaid. You top up a balance by card, and it pays for your phones, and for traffic and agent use past what they include. Each phone has a plan, chosen when you allocate it and changed with PUT /v1/phones/{id}/plan. Top-ups and every charge are listed in the console, under Transactions.
Plans
monthly is $50 for 30 days, taken from your balance at once. Nothing more is charged for the phone until paidThrough, however much it runs, and stopping or releasing it gives nothing back. Nothing renews by itself: when the 30 days end the phone is stopped, with its apps and data kept, until you renew it in the console or with POST /v1/phones/{id}/renew. Renew before the end and the new 30 days follow the paid ones. Time the phone could not run because of a fault on our side is added to its 30 days.
payg charges each minute the phone runs: $0.28 an hour, which comes to $200 if it runs 30 days without stopping. A stopped phone costs nothing. It is the plan a phone gets when you name none. A month already paid for is kept when you change plan, and minutes are charged only once it ends.
Adding phones
Adding phones needs a balance that covers them, $50 for each monthly one and $6.67, which is 24 hours, for each one charged by the minute, on top of what your running phones need in those hours.
Free trial
A new workspace can start a free trial from the console: $7 of credit and $1 of agent use, to use within 7 days. Starting it checks a card without charging it, and each card gets one trial. Nothing is charged until the trial ends. If the credit runs out first, phones pause until you top up or the trial ends. From then, the card adds $50 whenever your balance covers less than what the phones running or waiting for credit need in the next 6 hours, and never when none are. Turn this off on the Usage page, or with PUT /v1/billing/auto-top-up.
Endpoints
nextBefore back as before for older ones; limit takes up to 200.{ enabled }. autoTopUp in /v1/billing says which card it is, how much it adds, and startsAt, the day it can first charge.{ cents, method }, from 1,000 to 100,000 cents, and answers 201 with the url of a payment page to send the payer to. method is card (the default) or crypto, when topUpMethods in /v1/billing lists it. The balance goes up once the payment is confirmed.{ cents } to collect in a page of your own, and answers 201 with the clientSecret and publishableKey that Stripe's card form is set up with.waiting, processing, paid or failed, with Stripe's receipt page once it is paid.{ cents, currency, network } to show in a page of your own, and answers 201 with the address, the payAmount to send and when it expires.waiting, confirming, underpaid, paid or expired, with the transaction that paid it once one was seen.