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Choosing Per-Transaction or Subscription Pricing for Payment Platforms

For a payment platform, the right pricing model is the one your unit economics and billing operations can actually support, not the one that looks cleanest on a pricing page. In practice, teams usually choose among three mechanics: usage-based billing, per-transaction pricing, and recurring subscriptions, or combine usage-based and recurring charges where supported. Each one changes revenue behavior, invoice logic, and margin risk.