Multi-tenant billing for marketplaces and partner ecosystems
Account trees, settlement between parties, contract-specific pricing per node, rollup invoicing — the multi-tenant patterns that come from telco and apply to software marketplaces.
Note: this article is a published stub. The full version is in our editorial pipeline. The framing and intro below are final; the deeper sections will publish shortly.
When billing has to handle a tree, not a list
Marketplaces, embedded platforms, and B2B2B SaaS all share a billing shape that single-tenant systems handle badly: arbitrary-depth account trees, contract-specific pricing at multiple nodes, settlement between parties on shared events, and rollup invoicing that has to preserve per-child detail.
This article covers the four structural decisions every multi-tenant billing model has to make, and shows how carrier-grade rating handles each one cleanly.
Article in progress. This post is part of the apimonetization.ai insights series. The full version will publish shortly.