Product Update Feb '25

One sixth of 2025 is already over. If that makes you feel depressed, we've got some new Lago features to cheer you up. Here's what we shipped recently:

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Partner billing

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Many of our customers share some revenue with partners. If a partner gets them a new customer, the partner gets a cut of that revenue.

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This is easy enough for subscriptions and tons of vendors enable this. But if you charged based on usage, you had to do it all manually becaues most billing systems couldn’t handle this.

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We’re solving this now. Previously, you could only use Lago to invoice your customers. Now you can create partners. A partner invoice is addressed to you and comes from your partner, a concept we call self-billing.

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This means you can now manage partnerships directly within Lago instead of needing multiple tools. Lago will also calculate both the revenue this partner brings you and their overall cost.

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Want to know the details? Hop into the documentation!

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Invoice previews & dry runs

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If you’re using Lago, your pricing is probably more complex than a simple $/user/month. Usage-based pricing has many benefits, but it can lack transparency. If you’ve ever been hit with a massive surprise bill, you know what I’m talking about.

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And it’s the same for the company on the other side: You want to know how much money you’ll make this month.

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This is why we’ve built invoice previews. Invoice previews work both ways:

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-Prospective customers can now see exactly what they’ll have to pay if they buy the product. This gives them more clarity and makes them more likely to buy.

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-As a company, you can now see what a customer’s invoice would look like if it was issued right now. This lets you support your customers better when they have questions.

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-Your customers can preview what they’ll have to pay if they downgrade, upgrade, etc. in fine detail—including all taxes, credits, etc.
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Want to know the details? Hop into the documentation!

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Manually record (partial) payments

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Some invoices aren’t paid in full right away. Some of them are paid through wires, ACH or bank transfers. This is true especially in bigger enterprise deals with unique payment terms. But this means that the invoice is neither unpaid nor paid—it’s partially paid.

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You can now record these payments in Lago and easily find partially paid invoices at a glance by filtering. That way, you don’t have to remember payments in your head, but always have an accurate overview directly in Lago.

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Want to know the details? Hop into the documentation!

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Get paid in crypto

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Lago now supports crypto payments! Don’t worry though, your customers won’t be paying you in a dog meme coin anytime soon. For now, we support USDC/USDP payments if you’re using Lago with Stripe payments.

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If you don’t know, USDC is a stablecoin that’s pegged to the US Dollar and always worth exactly $1, so it’s not some speculative memecoin you’re getting into.

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Of course, you can turn this on and off as you like.

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Deploy Lago in a single Docker command

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Yup, that's right. We've made it easier than ever before to deploy Lago—just a single Docker command. Find out more in the docs here.