A small SaaS that sells metered API access and bills for it through Zewst. The product is deliberately trivial — it shortens URLs. The commercial half is the point, and every step below is a real call to the platform. Nothing here is simulated.
Read live from the platform's monetization surface — Orbit stores no catalogue of its own.
Creates a real billing customer and grants a signup bonus, so you can call the API before any card is on file. The grant is idempotent — signing up twice never pays twice.
The subscription is created on the platform and synced to the billing engine in the background.
Shorten a URL with the key issued at signup. Usage is recorded after the work succeeds, keyed on the unit of work, so a retry bills once. Your balance above falls as it happens.
Orbit's own revenue, aggregated by the platform. A subscription with no billing-engine id will never be invoiced — surfaced here deliberately, because it is invisible everywhere else.