Welcome to Brilo

Brilo is a powerful billing and pricing engine built for SaaS companies that need more than a basic subscription tool. Whether you're charging a flat monthly fee, billing by usage, or running complex tiered pricing, Brilo gives you the infrastructure to do it without building it yourself.

What Brilo Does

Brilo sits between your application and your payment processor, handling the complexity of usage metering, pricing logic, and invoice generation so you don't have to.

Core Concepts at a Glance

Before diving in, here's how the key pieces fit together:

Your App  ──→  Events  ──→  Metrics  ──→  Plans  ──→  Subscriptions  ──→  Invoices

• Events are raw usage signals from your app (api_call_made, email_sent, etc.)
• Metrics aggregate those events into billable quantities (count, sum, max, etc.)
• Plans define pricing — what to charge and how, based on metrics and flat fees
• Subscriptions link a customer to a plan and manage their billing cycle
• Invoices are the output — generated automatically each period

How Brilo Fits Into Your Stack

Brilo is API-first. You send usage events from your backend, and Brilo handles everything downstream — aggregation, pricing, invoice generation, and payment collection.

┌─────────────────┐         ┌─────────────────┐        ┌──────────────────┐
│   Your App      │──events→│     Brilo        │──pay→  │ Stripe/Braintree │
│  (backend)      │←access─ │  (billing core)  │        │ (payment)        │
└─────────────────┘         └─────────────────┘        └──────────────────┘

Your application calls Brilo to:

• Track usage events
• Check feature/metric access
• Create and manage subscriptions
• Retrieve draft or finalized invoices

Brilo handles the rest.

Next Steps