We’re excited to introduce a new webhook event: subscription.trial_ended. This webhook notifies your systems whenever a subscription's trial has ended and will now begin accruing paid usage.
To start using this webhook, configure your webhook endpoints in the Orb dashboard and ensure your systems are set up to handle the subscription.trial_ended event.
For more details, refer to our webhook documentation.
When adding a pre-purchase allocation to a plan or subscriptions, Orb now supports a custom expiration option for each allocation credit block. This option allows you to set a specific number of days or months after which the block should expire. This option can be configured in both our UI and API.
To learn more about allocations, please visit our docs.
Orb now supports Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Amazon Pay for both automatic payment collection as well as manual invoice payment in the invoice and customer portals.
To enable these methods, head to your Stripe Dashboard → Payments → Payment Methods. In the configuration labeled “Default — Orb Configuration”, simply toggle on the payment methods you’d like to offer.
These options will now appear automatically during checkout and can be saved for future use — no additional setup required.
You can now lock accounting periods in Orb Reports.
This control in your Reports Settings ensures that no billing activity, including backdated subscriptions or invoice edits, impact closed reporting periods so you can stay compliant with ASC 606 standards.
Learn more about setup and expected recognition treatment in our docs.
When configuring a new plan, plan version, or subscription, it is now possible to copy a price from an existing plan. This simplifies the provisioning process and reduces the potential for mistakes when setting up your pricing.
Orb now empowers teams to create bespoke subscriptions without needing to define a new plan via Custom Contracts. When working with enterprise customers who have unique pricing, billing terms, or usage requirements, it’s common to run into edge cases that don’t neatly fit into standardized plans.
Instead of creating a one-off plan per customer, you can now build a custom contract directly (in app and via the API) — giving you the flexibility to meet your enterprise customers’ needs without bloating your plan catalog.
Read more here on when and how to build a contract from scratch or from an existing plan template. This feature is currently available to a subset of customers.
We've released a redesign of the Plan Version Migration creation flow, to increase transparency and safety when running migrations. The new flow more clearly states what to expect, and you can now also review each subscription by previewing the invoices that will be created as a result of the migration.
Previewing invoices:
We’re excited to introduce a new webhook event: customer.balance_transaction_created. This webhook notifies your systems whenever a balance transaction is created for a customer, for example, when the balance is added via a refund credit note or deducted during invoice issuance.
To start using this webhook, configure your webhook endpoints in the Orb dashboard and ensure your systems are set up to handle the customer.balance_transaction_created event.
For more details, refer to our webhook documentation.
We’re excited to announce the launch of our officially supported Ruby SDK! You can integrate seamlessly with Orb in your Ruby projects using the orb-billing gem, available on RubyGems.org.
To get started, add this line to your Gemfile:
gem 'orb-billing', '~> 0.1.3'
Or install it directly with:
gem install orb-billing
Ruby now joins our growing SDK family alongside Python, TypeScript, Go, Java, and Kotlin, making it even easier to integrate Orb no matter your stack.
Do you have a language you’d like us to support next? Let us know - we’re all ears!
