SaaS & Subscriptions

Recurring billing built for African SaaS businesses

Handle subscriptions, free trials, plan upgrades, and failed payment recovery — all in one billing engine designed for the African market.

Features

Subscription management, simplified

Everything your SaaS needs to run a healthy recurring revenue business — from first charge to annual renewal.

Flexible Billing Cycles

Bill daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annually. Set custom billing anchor dates and auto-renew on the customer's preferred schedule.

Free Trials & Freemium

Offer 7, 14, or 30-day free trials with optional card capture. Convert freemium users to paying customers with automated upgrade prompts.

Proration on Plan Changes

Customers upgrade or downgrade mid-cycle? Bitwisi Pay automatically calculates the prorated amount and adjusts the next invoice accurately.

Smart Dunning

When a payment fails, Bitwisi Pay retries intelligently — using optimal timing and channel to maximise recovery rate before cancelling access.

Usage-Based Billing

Report metered usage via API — API calls, seats, messages, or any unit — and bill customers accurately at the end of each billing period.

Customer Portal

Give customers a self-service portal to update payment methods, view invoices, change plans, and cancel — reducing support tickets by up to 60%.

Churn Recovery

Reduce churn from payment failures

In Africa, Mobile Money failures are a leading cause of involuntary churn — insufficient balance, network timeouts, and expired tokens. Bitwisi Pay's dunning engine fights back automatically.

  • Smart retry logic

    Retries are scheduled at times when payment success rates are statistically highest — not just on a fixed hourly cycle.

  • SMS & email reminders

    Customers receive proactive reminders before and after a failed payment — in local languages with direct payment links.

  • Configurable grace periods

    Keep customers active during the retry window — define grace periods per plan to avoid premature access revocation.

Recovery performance

Retry 1 (Day 1)52% recovered
Retry 2 (Day 3)28% recovered
Retry 3 (Day 7)12% recovered

92% total recovery rate

vs. industry average of ~60% with single-retry systems

Billing Models

Supported billing models

One platform, every billing model your SaaS could need — now or in the future.

Fixed Monthly

A flat recurring charge per period. Predictable for you and your customers.

Usage-Based

Customers pay for exactly what they consume — API calls, messages, or events.

Seat-Based

Charge per active user seat. Scale billing automatically as teams grow.

Hybrid

Combine a base fee with metered overages — e.g. $20/mo + $0.005 per API call beyond 10k.

Get Started

Launch subscriptions in hours, not weeks

The complete billing stack for African SaaS — free trials, dunning, usage billing, and a customer portal included out of the box.