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Credits make usage-based pricing simple and transparent. In Stigg, a credit represents a unit of value in a custom currency that you grant to customers and deduct as they use metered features. Each customer has a credit pool per currency and a ledger that records every action: grants, deductions, expirations, revocations, and adjustments. Stigg’s real-time consumption logic decides which credits to burn first, ensuring the right blocks are used in the right order. Usage reports flow into Stigg, get mapped to credit costs, and trigger immediate deductions. Webhooks keep your billing and analytics in sync, while widgets show customers their balances and usage trends in real time.

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Use-cases

Credits decouple cost from usage details to:
  • Include recurring grants in plans and add-ons - attach credits directly as entitlements to any plan or add-on (free, paid, or custom), so customers automatically receive and refresh credits each billing period without a separate charge
  • Include predictable allowances in subscriptions with recurring credits
  • Offer prepaid packs by selling usage up front
  • Incentivize adoption with promotional credits
  • Mix and match models using hybrid pricing
  • Negative credit balance - Customers can continue consuming credits beyond their available balance. The system tracks the deficit as an overdraft and automatically settles it when new credits are granted.
  • Resource-specific credit pools - Isolate credit balances, ledgers, and auto-recharge configurations for individual workspaces, users, or other sub-account resources within a single billing account.
  • Direct credit consumption - Grant and consume credits for a customer with no active subscription or assigned plan, so you can run the credits system fully decoupled from Stigg subscription management. This suits teams that manage subscriptions on their own side and only want Stigg for credit governance, or teams with their own credit-metering system that just want to report consumption to Stigg. See Direct credit consumption.