# Billing

> How Coritan bills you, from your credit balance and invoices to payment methods, and where each lives on the Billing page.

Source: https://docs.coritan.com/billing/

In the dashboard:

- /dashboard/billing: https://www.coritan.com/dashboard/billing

Coritan bills each service on the billing cycle you chose when you ordered it: by the hour, week, month, quarter or year. You pay from your *credit balance*, with a saved card or PayPal account, or with cryptocurrency. This section explains how charges are worked out and paid, and how to change or cancel what you pay for.

## How you are billed

Orders
: An order raises one first invoice for everything in it: one billing cycle of the service, the first period of each add-on bought with it and any setup fees. Coritan takes what it can from your credit, and sets everything in the order up once the invoice is paid ([Order a service](/get-started/order-a-service/)).

Renewals
: Coritan raises each renewal invoice up to 3 days before the service's renewal date, by default. It takes the invoice from your credit first and charges your default payment method for the rest.

Hourly services
: After its first invoice, an hourly service has no invoices. Coritan takes its price from your credit every hour, up to a monthly cap ([How hourly billing works](/billing/hourly-billing/)).

Missed payments
: Coritan retries a failed charge on a schedule. A service whose invoice stays unpaid is suspended a day after the due date, by default, and deleted later ([Failed payments and suspended services](/billing/failed-payments/)).

Your credit is held in US dollars and never expires. Invoices are in US dollars too. The currency your bank charges depends on how you pay ([Currencies and countries](/billing/currencies-and-regions/)).

## The Billing page

In the sidebar of the [dashboard](https://www.coritan.com/dashboard/billing), select **Billing**. The page has four tabs.

**Overview**
: Three cards across the top: **Account credit** (your balance, and whether automatic top-up is on), **Due now** (the total of your unpaid invoices) and **You pay with** (your default payment method). Under them are the **Add credit** card, **Waiting for payment** with your unpaid invoices, and **Recent activity** with your latest payments. The balance is in US dollars, even when your account's currency is another one and the card shows that currency's symbol.

**Invoices**
: Every invoice, with its status, and the **Pay** button for the unpaid ones ([Pay an invoice](/billing/invoices/)).

**Transactions**
: Every payment, refund and credit movement ([Transactions and payment attempts](/billing/transactions/)).

**Payment methods**
: Your saved cards and PayPal accounts, auto-pay and automatic top-up ([Manage payment methods](/billing/payment-methods/)).

## Pay and add money

- [Pay an invoice](/billing/invoices/): pay what is due with credit, a saved method, a card, PayPal or another provider.
- [Add credit to your balance](/billing/add-credit/): top up by card, PayPal or a checkout page.
- [Turn on automatic top-up](/billing/automatic-top-up/): charge your default method when your balance runs low.
- [Pay with cryptocurrency](/billing/crypto-payments/): send cryptocurrency to add credit.
- [Manage payment methods](/billing/payment-methods/): save, remove and choose the default card or PayPal account.
- [Currencies and countries](/billing/currencies-and-regions/): which currency you are charged in, and why.

## Change what you pay for

- [Change a service's plan](/billing/change-plan/): move a service to another billing cycle of the same product.
- [Cancel a service](/billing/cancel-a-service/): end a service at the end of its term or at once.
- [How hourly billing works](/billing/hourly-billing/): hourly prices, the monthly cap and the $10.00 deposit that unlocks them.

## Records and problems

- [Transactions and payment attempts](/billing/transactions/): what you paid, when and how.
- [Failed payments and suspended services](/billing/failed-payments/): why a payment failed, and how to restore a suspended service.

## Prepaid and postpaid accounts

Your account's *billing mode* is shown as **Billing mode** on your profile ([Update your profile](/account/profile/)).

`prepaid`
: The mode every new account starts in. You pay a service's first invoice before Coritan sets it up. Hourly billing and automatic top-up are for prepaid accounts only.

`postpaid`
: A service on a monthly or longer billing cycle is set up without a first payment, and you pay an invoice at the end of each billing cycle. Hourly, daily and weekly plans still need their first payment before setup. Only Coritan staff can move an account to postpaid, so [contact support](/support/conversations/) to ask.

## Limits

| What | Limit |
| --- | --- |
| One top-up | $1.00 to $10,000.00 |
| Credit that unlocks hourly billing | $10.00 added in total, by default |
| Monthly cap of an hourly service | 672 hours of its hourly price, by default |
| Renewal invoices | Raised up to 3 days before the renewal date, by default |
| Suspension of an unpaid service | 1 day after the invoice's due date, by default |

## With the API

[`GET /billing/credit`](/api/reference/client/billing/#op-get-api-v1-billing-credit) returns your credit balance and your last 20 credit movements, newest first:

```bash
curl https://api.coritan.com/api/v1/billing/credit \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CORITAN_TOKEN"
```

```json
{
  "balance": 37.01,
  "currency": "USD",
  "recent_transactions": [
    {
      "id": 9031,
      "amount": -0.0087,
      "balance_after": 37.01,
      "description": "Hourly charge for service #311",
      "created_at": "2026-09-25T09:00:02"
    },
    {
      "id": 9024,
      "amount": 25.0,
      "balance_after": 37.0187,
      "description": "Credit top-up $25.00 USD",
      "created_at": "2026-09-24T16:41:10"
    }
  ]
}
```

`balance` is in US dollars. `currency` is your account's currency, which is not the currency of `balance`: an account set to euros sees `EUR` beside a dollar amount. Each entry in `recent_transactions` is one change to your balance: `amount` is positive for credit added and negative for credit spent, and `balance_after` is the balance it left. The list holds movements that the **Transactions** tab does not show, such as hourly charges and the credit from a downgrade.

The [Client API reference](/api/reference/client/billing/) lists every billing operation. [Make your first API request](/get-started/first-steps-with-the-api/) explains how to get `$CORITAN_TOKEN`.

## API

- `GET /api/v1/billing/credit`: Get credit (https://docs.coritan.com/api/reference/client/billing/#op-get-api-v1-billing-credit)