Monetizing Your AI App: Payment Integration Made Simple

You've built an amazing AI app. Now it's time to monetize it. But payment integration can be daunting.

The Challenge

Integrating payments requires:

• Setting up a payment processor (Stripe, PayPal, etc.)
• Handling webhooks for subscription events
• Managing customer data
• Dealing with failed payments
• Implementing usage-based billing

This can take weeks of development time.

Smart Services + Stripe

Smart Services integrates with Stripe to give you a simple payment API:

// Create a customer
const customer = await smartServices.payments.createCustomer({
  email: '[email protected]',
  name: 'John Doe'
});

// Charge them
await smartServices.payments.charge({
  amount: 2999, // $29.99
  currency: 'usd',
  customer: customer.id,
  description: 'Pro Plan - Monthly'
});

Subscription Management

Smart Services handles the complexity of subscriptions:

• Automatic billing - Charge customers monthly/yearly
• Proration - Handle plan upgrades/downgrades
• Failed payments - Retry logic and notifications
• Cancellations - Clean subscription lifecycle

Usage-Based Billing

For AI apps, usage-based billing often makes sense:

// Track usage
await smartServices.payments.recordUsage({
  customer: customerId,
  quantity: tokensUsed,
  timestamp: new Date()
});

Smart Services aggregates usage and bills customers automatically.

Get Started

Ready to monetize your AI app? Sign up for Smart Services and start accepting payments in minutes.