Account & Billing

--- tag: billing --- # Account & Billing ## Option 1 We bill users from within their personal dashboard. Users get access to a number of "tokens" that they assign to companies they manage/administrate. The tokens could be limited depending on what plan the user purchases. To see how this option might work... see here (take a look at the "Members" tab): https://dashkit.goodthemes.co/account-billing.html ### Upsides - This option is good for users who manage multiple companies and don't wish to see a plan overview everytime they create a new company (e.g Adili) - Manage all your billings in one place, one payment method for multiple companies - Easily assign tokens to companies from within one place (as easy as an on/off switch) ### Downsides - Could a user give premium access to one company at a time and then switch... e.g get their cap table verified by Raise, fundraise etc, and then change the premium access token to a second company and repeat the process... - If I manage 3 companies, do those companies want to be billed separately for the sake of expenses/tax? - What happens if the paying admin leaves the company? ### Edge Cases - What happens if the paying admin leaves the company? ### Plans - Free (Create unlimited companies w/o premium features) - Premium (Up to 5 companies have access to premium features) - Enterprise (Unlimited companies have access to premium features) --- ## Option 2 We bill users from within the company dashboard. Admins collectively manage the billing of a company's account and upload the payment details from within this dashboard. ### Upsides - For founders/admins managing one company, or a couple of companies, this is the most convenient way to manage billing - If an admin leaves the company, the payments don't have to stop (the company pays, not the individual) - It's rare that founders will be creating huge amounts of companies, so they won't be bothered by the plans screen more than once or twice ### Downsides - Enterprise companies (like Adili) have to fill out payment details multiple times, which becomes annoying and tedious to handle - They also have to see the plans page 100 times, which gets annoying ### Edge Cases - Founders/ICs who manage 1-10 companies, this gets frustrating for them... (same problem as law firms) ### Plans - Free (No premium features) - Premium (Some premium features) - Enterprise (All premium features) ### Potential Resolutions - We charge enterprises for a discount code (applied via company dashboards) for a certain number of companies