Recharge · FinOps Profile

Recharge Payments Finops

FinOps view of Recharge spend. Recharge bills merchants as a SaaS subscription: a fixed monthly platform fee per plan tier (Starter, Plus, Custom) plus a per-transaction fee on each subscription order processed (a percentage of order value plus a fixed per-order amount). The REST API carries no separate metered charge - API usage is included with a paid plan - so API cost is effectively bundled into the platform fee, while the variable cost driver is the volume of processed subscription orders. Underlying payment-gateway processing fees are billed separately by the gateway and are out of scope here.

Recharge Payments Finops is the FinOps profile for Recharge on the APIs.io network, aligned with the FinOps Foundation Framework.

It defines 3 billable meters, billed in USD, on a monthly cycle, and pricing category subscription-plus-usage.

The profile maps 8 FOCUS columns for cost-allocation reporting.

Tagged areas include Subscriptions, Recurring Billing, E-commerce, Payments, and FinOps.

Category: E-commerce and Subscription Billing Pricing: Subscription-Plus-Usage Billing: Monthly FOCUS v1.3
SubscriptionsRecurring BillingE-commercePaymentsFinOpsCost ManagementFOCUS

Framework Alignment

Framework
FinOps Foundation Framework
Data Spec
FOCUS v1.3

Charge Categories

PurchaseUsageAdjustment

FOCUS Columns

BillingCurrency
USD
ChargeCategory
Usage
InvoiceIssuerName
Recharge
PricingCategory
Subscription-Plus-Usage
ProviderName
Recharge
PublisherName
Recharge
ServiceCategory
E-commerce and Subscription Billing
ServiceName
Recharge Subscriptions

Meters

monthly_platform_fee
Unit: months
Fixed monthly Recharge plan fee (Starter, Plus, or Custom).
transaction_fee
Unit: orders
Per-subscription-order fee (percentage of order value plus fixed per-order amount).
sms_usage
Unit: messages
Concierge SMS messages sent on higher tiers, billed per message.

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