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title: Billing
subtitle: Create and manage subscriptions, track usage, and issue invoices.
route: /billing

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# Billing

Create and manage subscriptions, track usage, and issue invoices.

Use Stripe Billing to manage subscriptions and invoicing. It automates recurring payments, creates custom pricing plans, and handles billing cycles such as trials and renewals. Learn more about [Billing](https://stripe.com/billing/billing-apis) and its [features](https://stripe.com/billing#features).

To get started with Billing, we recommend you first create a Stripe account. [Sign up now](https://dashboard.stripe.com/register/billing).

## No code options

[No code](https://stripe.com/no-code/subscriptions): Not ready for a full integration? See some of our options for getting started without code.

[Pricing table](https://stripe.com/payments/checkout/pricing-table): Display a pricing table on your website and take customers directly to Stripe Checkout.

[Integrate the customer portal](https://stripe.com/customer-management): The simplest way to build a subscription and billing management Dashboard.

## Get started with subscriptions

[Sample integration (Quickstart)](https://stripe.com/billing/quickstart): Build a full, working subscription integration using Stripe Billing and Stripe Checkout and your test data.

[How subscriptions work](https://stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/overview): Learn how subscriptions work within Stripe at a high level.

[Design an integration](https://stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/designing-integration): Learn what choices you need to make to integrate subscriptions into your business.

[Webhooks](https://stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/webhooks): Use webhooks to receive notifications of subscription activity and manage triggers.

[Migrate your subscriptions](https://stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/migrate-subscriptions): Learn how to migrate subscriptions to Stripe.

## Usage-based billing

[Set up usage-based billing](https://stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/usage-based/implementation-guide): Understand the major pieces of a usage-based billing integration.

[Record usage for billing](https://stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/usage-based/recording-usage): Learn how subscriptions work within Stripe at a high level.

[Usage-based pricing models](https://stripe.com/products-prices/pricing-models#usage-based-pricing): Learn about different pricing models for usage-based billing on Stripe.

[How subscriptions work](https://stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/overview): Learn how subscriptions work within Stripe at a high level.

[Migrate subscriptions to Stripe](https://stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/migrate-subscriptions): Learn how to migrate subscriptions from other sources to Stripe.

## Get started with invoicing

[How invoicing works](https://stripe.com/invoicing/overview): Learn how invoices work in Stripe.

[Use the Dashboard](https://stripe.com/invoicing/dashboard): Create an invoice and bill a customer from the Dashboard.

[Customize invoices](https://stripe.com/invoicing/customize): Customize the content and branding of your invoices.

[Send customer emails](https://stripe.com/invoicing/send-email): Send invoice notifications and reminders   with or without code.

## Get started with quotes

[How quotes work](https://stripe.com/quotes/overview): Learn about the quotes workflow.

[Create a quote](https://stripe.com/quotes/create): Learn how to create a quotes and provide a pricing estimate to customers before starting a subscription or sending an invoice.

[Renegotiate a quote](https://stripe.com/quotes/clone): Update a finalized quote and share it with your customers.

## Clone a sample billing project

[Build a custom subscription page](https://github.com/stripe-samples/subscription-use-cases)

[Use a prebuilt subscription page](https://github.com/stripe-samples/checkout-single-subscription)

## Features

- [Pricing models](https://stripe.com/products-prices/pricing-models) Create pricing models for flat-rate, per-seat, usage-based, tiered, variable, and multi-currency pricing.

- [Usage-based billing](https://stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/usage-based) Bill customers based on their usage of your product or service using  daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annual billing periods.

- [Automated and customized invoicing](https://stripe.com/invoicing/overview) Generate and send invoices, and brand your invoices with your logo, custom fields, templates, and line grouping.

- [Smart retries](https://stripe.com/billing/automations) Schedule payment retries to maximize recovery.

- [Customer portal](https://stripe.com/customer-management/activate-no-code-customer-portal) Provide a self-service portal for customers to manage their subscriptions.