Overview

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Architecture principles

1. Accurate and auditable: Trace how each event contributes to billing, with resilience enabled by audit-safe amendments.
2. Real-time scale: Event-based APIs—such as event ingestion—handle extremely high throughput and concurrent load. Orb also provides real-time event balances and a performant webhooks architecture.
3. Flexible and extensible: A focus on extensibility with a custom SQL metrics layer and a custom pricing platform.

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Integrating with Orb

• Ingest events and build metrics so Orb continuously updates usage quantities.
• Model plans and pricing in the product catalog, linking metrics to your pricing logic.
• Provision subscriptions for each customer to track real-time usage and lifecycle, and use usage visibility to monitor accrued usage and account health.
• Configure invoicing and payments to automate charges and invoice delivery, reducing manual effort.