Developer-paid billing

Developers receive 100 successful prints free across all customer sites, then pay centrally through Stripe or an approved direct-invoice arrangement. Customers never enter payment details.

100 shared free prints

Developer registration is free and does not request billing details. The developer can create multiple customers immediately. The first 100 successfully completed print jobs are shared across the entire developer organisation; failed jobs do not consume the allowance.

Choose a billing arrangement when ready

For Stripe billing, the developer adds their legal billing details and completes Stripe Checkout once. Stripe securely retains the default payment method, so creating another customer does not ask for card details again. AppClickPrint administrators can instead enable direct invoicing for an approved developer without requiring Stripe billing information.

Customer sites and safeguards

Each paid customer site costs $2.50 USD monthly. Developers set a hard maximum customer count. The provisioning API returns customer_limit_reached instead of creating a site beyond that cap.

Monthly print-data limits

Every paid site starts at 50 MB. Developers can configure 100 MB, 150 MB or another 50 MB increment. Each additional 50 MB costs $1 USD monthly. The limit is a hard ceiling; AppClickPrint rejects printing beyond it rather than creating an unplanned overage.

Up to 25,000 direct-URL jobs: gateway-direct documentUrl jobs use a fixed 2 KB of allowance, so the standard 50 MB plan supports 25,600 such jobs per monthly period. Uploaded and inline jobs depend on their actual file size. Learn how to get more from the allowance.

PATCH /v1/developer/customers/customer-4821/usage-limit
Authorization: Bearer acm_YOUR_MANAGEMENT_KEY
Content-Type: application/json

{"monthlyLimitMb":100}

Usage calculation fine print

• Gateway-direct URL job: fixed at 2,048 bytes (2 KB), regardless of the downloaded document’s size.
• Uploaded PDF or inline/uploaded ZPL and ESC/POS: minimum 2,048 bytes, then rounded up to the next 512-byte (0.5 KB) increment.
• Copies: do not multiply usage because AppClickPrint transfers the job document once.
• AppClickPrint portal test pages: excluded from billed usage and trial print counts.
• Allowance: calculated as the configured number of megabytes × 1,024 × 1,024 bytes.
• Actual URL download size: retained separately for diagnostics and does not replace the fixed 2 KB allowance debit.

Gateway-direct delivery is normally the most allowance-efficient option for larger documents because the Android gateway downloads from your storage and AppClickPrint handles only the print-control workflow. Use a short-lived signed HTTPS URL and keep it valid long enough for an offline gateway to reconnect.

Billing API responses

• trial_print_limit_reached — the shared 100-print trial is exhausted; activate Stripe or arrange direct invoicing.
• customer_limit_reached — increase the developer's customer cap.
• monthly_print_limit_reached — increase that customer's allowance or wait for the next billing period.
• 429 Too Many Requests — the customer exceeded the short-term print submission rate; retry with the same idempotency key and backoff.