Billing: platform balance and Pro

The final lesson covers the Billing section: how you settle with the platform itself. The model is simple: a wallet balance charged once a day for your clients, plus a Pro subscription for those who earn on their VPN.

What the platform costs

There's no "per server" fee — you pay per client, and the first client is always free. The "Billing plan" card offers two options:

The charge happens once a day — 1/30 of the monthly rate for each billable client. The balance card always shows the "Estimated daily charge" and the "Balance lasts until …" forecast.

Which plan is cheaper depends on your audience: lots of "sleeping" clients — take "Per active"; everyone connects daily — "Per client in base". You can switch anytime; the change takes effect the next day.

Top-ups — via Telegram

Top-ups come as tiles with fixed amounts from €5 to €100. Payment goes through Tribute in Telegram, so you need to link your Telegram username once in the account settings: the payment is credited to your balance by that username. Money arrives automatically within a minute or two.

Every money movement is visible in the "History" card: top-ups, daily charges, adjustments, and refunds.

If the money runs out

The system warns you in advance and switches things off only at the very end:

1. About 7 days before zero — a reminder email.
2. A day before — another one.
3. The balance goes negative — your clients' VPN stops and you get an email. The panel keeps working: balance, history, and the top-up button are all there, but you can't create or enable clients until you top up.
4. Topped up — within a few minutes everything comes back on its own: the system re-enables exactly the clients it stopped (the ones you disabled manually are left alone) and sends a "VPN is back up" email.

The Pro subscription

Pro is the mode for turning a VPN into a business. It's paid straight from the balance: €4.99 per week or €14.99 per month — a separate charge on top of the per-client fee. What it gives:

• The paid storefront — the neutral yourslug.subscriberhub.xyz domain and a full landing page (lesson 10).
• Selling — plans and payment acceptance (lesson 11 and lesson 12).
• Backups of your user base (lesson 8).

Renewal is automatic, from the same balance. You can cancel anytime — Pro serves out the paid period and switches off. Pro won't drag you into the red: if there isn't enough for a renewal, the subscription simply doesn't renew.

Remember

• You pay per client: €0.10/mo for each in the base or €0.20/mo per active one; the first is free; charged once a day.
• Top-ups are €5–100 via Telegram; link your username in settings — payments are credited by it.
• Warnings ~7 days and 1 day ahead; in the red the VPN stops and comes back by itself after a top-up.
• Pro (€4.99/wk or €14.99/mo from the balance) = the paid storefront + selling + backups; cancelling lets it serve out the period.

Course complete 🎉

You now know the system end to end — from hardware to money.

Infrastructure:

• Terminology — cluster, server, route, inbound.
• Clusters — the master, the nodes, and the swap.
• Servers — installation and metrics.
• Routes — what the user sees and how balancing works.
• Inbounds — masquerading, blocking, split tunneling.
• Multihop — server chains.
• Monitoring — self-checks, the mesh network, and self-healing.
• Backups — your user base, safe and sound.

Clients and money:

• Users — statuses, subscription links, manual management.
• Customization — the storefront under your brand.
• Plans — what you sell and for how much.
• Monetization — payments that become subscriptions on their own.
• Billing — the balance, platform pricing, and Pro.

What's next? If you haven't connected your first server yet, start with the setup guide. For app-specific questions, see the guides for Happ and the OpenWRT and Keenetic routers. And the course is always at hand as a reference: forgot a term — open the lesson.