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Credits and billing

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Written by Arman Vardanyan

Only Assistant work uses credits. Open Settings, then Billing and usage to see your balance, plan and credit history. The credits button in the header shows your balance beside a small ring that shows how much of your monthly credits are left (the same ring as on Billing and usage; it turns amber when credits run low and red when they are gone, and it also shrinks in a bonus month, counted from the credits you started the cycle with); select it to see your monthly credits and your extra credits (or, on a team, the team's pool credits), when they refill and a link to Billing and usage. The header and the Billing and usage page read the same figures, so they always agree, and a change on the page (a purchase, a seat change, a plan change) shows in the header without a reload. On a team, the number on the button is your own credits plus the team's shared pool, because that is what the Binee Assistant can use before it stops; the popover shows the two parts, Monthly credits and Pool credits. If you are not on a team, the button is just your own balance and the second row reads Extra credits.

Credits come from a plan, or from the one-time credits of the free trial that every new account starts with. There is no free plan: when the trial ends without a plan, the account becomes read only until you choose one.

What costs what

  • Assistant messages: 0.55 to 2 credits each, depending on how much work the message takes. Quick answers cost the least; requests across several tools or with attachments cost more. The Assistant in Slack uses the same pricing.

  • Automatic source updates, item details and Binee Insights: included, with no credit deduction. Opening or reopening an item does not generate a new paid answer.

  • Changes you confirm in your tools (from an item pane, the New form or an Assistant confirmation card): included, with no credit deduction. The Assistant message that stages a change is an Assistant message and is priced like any other.

  • Questions about Binee itself, such as where settings live or how billing works: free.

For example, opening an email and a task to read their prepared summaries is included. Asking the Assistant to compare the client's email with that task uses Assistant credits. Historical deductions remain in your usage history; the policy does not rewrite previous transactions.

The 14-day free trial

Every new account that owns a workspace and has a confirmed email address starts a 14-day trial of the Pro plan. No card is needed and nothing is charged.

  • The trial has every Binee feature and Pro's limits, which means no limit on Home cards or connections.

  • It comes with a one-time set of 150 trial credits, used by Assistant conversations like any other credits. They do not refill, and there is no top-up during the trial: extra credits are part of a plan. When they are used up, the Assistant says "Your trial credits are used up. Choose a plan to keep using the Binee Assistant." Home, Inbox and All Work keep working until the trial ends.

  • A banner at the top of the app shows how many days are left and the date the trial ends.

  • Friends and family who sign up through the invitation link they were given start a longer trial: 30 days and 300 trial credits instead of 14 days and 150. Everything else is the same (no card, every feature, the same once-per-person rule), the signup page and the first setup screen say so, and the banner and the Billing page always show your own real days left and credits. The link does not work for someone who has already used a free trial, and Binee does not offer the longer trial to anyone who signs up without that link.

  • Choosing a plan during the trial starts that plan right away. The plan's credits replace what is left of the trial credits; they do not add to them.

  • A trial is once per person, not once per workspace. Binee recognises a person by their email address and by the external accounts they connect during the trial (for example, the same mail account). These are stored only as one-way fingerprints, never as the address or account id itself, and they are kept for 24 months from the date they were recorded, even after the account is deleted, so that deleting and re-registering does not restart a trial. If an address has already used a trial, or is a disposable address, the app says so plainly and offers to choose a plan instead; it never says which address or account was used before.

  • Deleting your workspace or your account forfeits unused trial credits, and starting again does not restart the trial.

For example, during the trial you can connect your email and your task tool and ask the Assistant which clients emailed this week while their tasks are overdue. When the trial credits run out, Home, Inbox and All Work still show the same work, and choosing a plan brings the Assistant back.

When the trial or a plan ends

Binee shows three different ended states, worded differently on purpose:

  • Trial ended: "Your trial ended on <date>. Choose a plan to pick up where you left off." The action is Choose a plan.

  • Plan ended (a paid plan that was cancelled or lapsed): "Your plan ended on <date>. Reactivate to pick up where you left off." It never mentions a trial. The action is Reactivate.

  • Team seat ended (a seat on someone's team that was removed, left or ended with the team plan): it names the team and the date and says your account and data are still here. The action is Choose a plan. It never mentions a trial and never says Reactivate, because the team plan is not yours to reactivate. See Team seats below.

In all three states your screens stay readable with "Data as of <date>" showing the date access ended (not a sync time), but they are read only: the Binee Assistant and background updates pause, and you cannot add or change cards, saved views, memories or source actions. Settings, Billing and usage, disconnecting a tool, and deleting your account keep working. Nothing is deleted when access ends.

Your data is kept for 60 days after access ended. At least 14 days before anything is deleted, Binee emails you the exact deletion date; once that warning has been recorded, the banner and the Billing page state the date too. Choosing a plan or reactivating before then restores everything exactly as you left it. If you do nothing, the workspace data is deleted on that date; your sign-in account stays.

During the trial, Binee emails you three times: halfway through (after 7 days of a 14-day trial, about 15 days of a 30-day one), two days before it ends, and when it ends. Each is sent once per person and tells you the date. Choosing a plan stops the rest.

Plan limits

Plans differ by credits and by limits on Home cards and connections:

  • Personal: 10 Home cards and 5 connections.

  • Pro: no limit on either.

A connection is one connected account of one tool in your workspace. A second account of the same tool is another connection, and each workspace you connect on a tool that connects several workspaces counts on its own. Reconnecting the same account is not a new connection. The connection that takes Binee into your team chat does not count.

At the limit, adding another card or connection stops with "Personal includes 10 cards - upgrade to add more." (or "5 connections"). Nothing is deleted.

When you move to a plan with lower limits (a trial ending into Personal, or Pro to Personal), the app keeps everything and applies the limits like this:

  • Cards: your oldest 10 cards stay active. The rest are blurred and locked. A locked card can still be moved or removed but not edited. Removing an active card unlocks the next oldest one. Upgrading unlocks them all.

  • Connections: the least recently used connections beyond 5 pause. A one-time window lets you choose which connections stay active. A paused connection keeps its data and shows "paused - upgrade to resume"; Binee stops reading it, including its Assistant answers and background updates.

For example, with 7 connections and 14 cards on Pro, choosing Personal would lock 4 cards and pause 2 connections. When you choose to downgrade, the window shows those numbers from your own account (how many cards and connections are active now and what is limited after) before you confirm. The Choose a plan window itself shows only the plans, with no comparison boxes above them.

Paid plans

There are two plans on sale. Each one's monthly credits go into one pool, and every plan has every feature today:

  • Personal: $24 a month, 150 credits a month.

  • Pro: $44 a month, 300 credits a month.

Paying yearly is 10 percent off the plan price: Personal is $21.60 a month billed yearly ($259.20 a year) and Pro $39.60 ($475.20 a year). Plan cards show the price per month for the cycle you pick, and Stripe's checkout shows the exact amount before you pay. Monthly plan credits reset each cycle and unused plan credits do not carry over. The 14-day free trial is the only promotion: a new subscription starts with the plan's normal monthly credits.

The credit history entry for an activation shows the full math, so the amount next to it adds up. Subscribing sets your credits to the plan's first-month allowance, so the entry's amount is the difference between that allowance and what you had. For example, subscribing to Personal with 142.05 trial credits left reads "Subscription activated: Personal plan. Your credits were set to 150 for your first month: 142.05 remaining + 7.95 added." with +7.95 as the amount: your 142.05 stayed and were topped up to 150. Renewal entries read the same way ("20 unused + 130 added"), and when a balance above the allowance resets down, the entry says what expired, because plan credits do not carry over.

Accounts that subscribed before these plans existed keep their earlier plan: the same price and the same monthly credits as before (for example 500 credits a month at $60), shown under the plan it matches with "(earlier pricing)" after the name. Nothing changes for them unless they pick one of the two current plans, and an earlier plan cannot be picked again once left. An earlier plan that maps to Personal's size takes Personal's limits on cards and connections.

Team seats

A team seat lets you pay for another person's Binee. Teams are billing only: every person keeps their own workspace, their own connections, their own Inbox and their own credits. You, as the person who pays, see who has a seat (their email address, their role, their status and when they last used Binee) and never their work, their conversations or their balance.

For example, buy 3 Business seats for your team: each person gets their own Binee, their own connections and their own 300 credits a month. A colleague who handles client emails can ask the Assistant which clients emailed this week while their tasks are overdue, and it answers from their own connected tools. You never see that answer.

  • Prices and names: there are two seat levels. A Team seat is $24 a month and gives that person 150 credits a month, 10 Home cards and 5 connections (the Personal level). A Business seat is $44 a month and gives that person 300 credits a month with no limits (the Pro level). Paying yearly is 10 percent off, as for individual plans. One plan covers the whole team: every seat is Team, or every seat is Business. A team plan has at least 2 seats and up to 100 in total. There is no trial for seats; you pay at checkout, and seats you add later are prorated and paid through an explicit confirm step that shows the exact amount (see Removing a person and changing seats).

  • Credits belong to the seat, not the person: each seat refills on your billing date, and whoever holds the seat uses what is left on it. Swap people any time; a person who takes over a freed seat gets that seat's remaining credits until the refill, and the invite screen tells you so (for example "This seat has 120 credits left until Nov 1; it refills in full at renewal"). This also means removing and re-adding people never collects extra credits.

  • Credits for a seat you add part way through a period: the first credits a never-used seat receives are in proportion to the part of the credit period that is left (a Business seat added with half the period left starts with 150 credits, with a few days left it starts with a small minimum of 10), because you are charged in proportion too. A seat freed during the period hands its remaining credits to the next person instead (see Removing a person below). Every later period the seat gets the full amount. A seat accepted while your card is failing waits: its credits arrive when the renewal is paid.

  • Buying: press Change plan (or Choose a plan) on Billing and usage to open the Choose a plan window, then switch to For teams. Pick Team or Business, set the number of seats with the plus and minus buttons, pick monthly or yearly billing, and press Buy seats to pay on Stripe's secure checkout; under the button the window says "One seat is yours. You hand out the rest." Buying a team plan also gives you one of the seats: the first seat goes automatically to your own workspace, so you never invite yourself by email. Your Billing and usage page then shows your Team or Business seat instead of a trial, and your own credits for that seat arrive with it (in proportion to the part of the credit period that is left, like any new seat). Credits for the other seats are not granted when you buy. They arrive for each person when they accept their seat, and refill on your billing date. If you already pay for your own plan (Personal or Pro) and you can be given your seat right away, buying the team ends that plan, and the window says so before you pay: "Your Personal plan ends when you buy the team. The unused time you paid for comes back as a billing credit on your next invoice, not a refund." (it names your own plan; if you claimed a stay offer on it, the sentence adds "Your claimed offer ends with it."). Only the plan the window showed you is ended. The plan is cancelled at once and the unused part of what you actually paid is credited to your account at Stripe, never more than you paid: a month that was not paid yet (a failed card) or was bought with a discount is credited only for what was really collected, which can be nothing. Because of this you are not charged for your own plan and the team at the same time, and your seat is active straight away. For example, if you are on Pro with 20 days left and buy a Business team, the Pro plan ends today, the 20 unused days you paid for come back as credit, and your Business seat starts at once. If you cannot be given your seat right away (your email address is not confirmed yet, or you already hold a seat on another team), the window shows no such sentence and your own plan is not ended. Once you hold the seat, it waits behind your own plan, and only then does Billing and usage say "Your own plan is still set to renew" with a Cancel plan button (a person who holds no seat yet sees no such notice). The same applies to a plan you buy after the team plan: Binee never ends a plan you were not shown, and a seated buyer sees that notice for it. If Binee cannot finish ending your old plan, Billing and usage says "We could not finish moving you off your old plan - both are still active." with a Retry button. Binee also tries again when Stripe resends the purchase notification and when you load Billing and usage, but a page load retries at most once every 10 minutes after a failure, so press Retry for an immediate attempt; contact support if it keeps failing. Retry answers honestly: it only says your old plan is ended when it was, and if your seat is reserved but the old plan was left running (it was not the plan shown at checkout) it says so. If you hold a seat on another team, you cannot also hold one on yours: the other seats are still yours to give. If every seat is already taken or reserved by an invitation, Binee does not take a seat from anyone: the People page says "You do not hold a seat yourself, so your own plan is not covered by this team. Free a seat or add one and it is assigned to you.", and you are seated automatically as soon as one is free. That automatic seat is promised only in that case. If you gave up your own seat (or were removed from it), Binee never seats you again by itself, and the People page says "You gave up your seat. To take one again, invite yourself from the Invite button.": enter your own email address in Invite, then accept the invitation on your Billing and usage page. If you hold a seat on another team, the People page says you are not seated on this one because a person can hold one seat at a time. If your email address is not confirmed yet, the People page says "Your email address is not confirmed yet, so no seat can be assigned to you. Confirm it first."; once it is confirmed and a seat is free, you are seated the next time you open the page. Only one team checkout can be open at a time: if you start a second one while the first is still open, Binee closes the first or asks you to finish it, so you are never charged twice. If a second purchase does get through, it is cancelled right away, you are emailed, and a notice near the top of Billing and usage tells you to contact support about any charge; your team is unchanged.

  • Payment details: if the team plan has a payment issue, the notice near the top of Billing and usage has an Update payment button that opens Stripe for the card the team plan is charged on. If you only pay for a team plan and have no plan of your own, Payment and invoices works for you too.

  • If you delete your own account, your team plan is set to end at the end of the billing period. Your people keep the seats that are paid for until then. If that cannot be set up, your account is not deleted and you are told nothing was removed.

The People page

Once you pay for a seat package, Settings gains a People tab. It is yours alone: members and accounts without a package never see it. It shows everyone with a seat you pay for in one table: person, email, role (Owner or Member), status and last active.

  • Status is honest and current: Active, "Invited <date>" with a Resend link while an invitation waits (and a Copy link beside it when you have just created or resent that invitation, see Inviting people below), and an amber "Until <date>" for a person who leaves at your renewal.

  • Last active shows when each person last used Binee (for example "2 hours ago" or "Yesterday"), never what they did. It is measured when the person loads their work screens; using Binee only through Slack does not update it. Each member is told about it on their own Billing page: "Your team owner can see when you last used Binee - never what you do."

  • One header band above the table sums up the team. On the left sits your workspace name as the title, with a small pencil beside it: press the pencil, type the new name and press Enter or Save (Escape or Cancel leaves it as it was). Only the person who pays for the team sees the pencil, and renaming changes only the name people see, never who owns the workspace or anything you are billed. The name you give it is the team name your members read (for example "Your seat on Tecknocity's team") and the name in the invitations you send; until you rename it, they see your own name instead. Under the title sit the plan line (Team plan or Business plan) with a chip for the price a seat (for example "$44 a seat"), and under it the renewal and the monthly cost ("Renews Nov 28 - $132 a month"); while a change is scheduled for the renewal, that line shows the cost after the change, for example "Renews Nov 28 - $88 a month (after the change)" when 5 Business seats are dropping to 2, and the plan card on Billing and usage says the same on its Billed by Stripe line). Next to that are four numbers, each over its label: seats, used, invited and available. "Used" counts people who have accepted a seat, including you; invited counts invitations that are waiting, because each one holds a seat until it is accepted, revoked or expired, and it is left out when nobody is invited; available is what you can still hand out, counted exactly the way Invite counts it: while a reduction is scheduled for the renewal, available is capped by the smaller team, so the band never shows an available seat that Invite would refuse. For example, a team of 3 seats where you and one colleague hold a seat and a third person has been invited shows 3 seats, 2 used, 1 invited and 0 available, and nothing is available until that invitation is resolved. On the right are Manage seats and Invite. On a narrow screen the numbers move under the plan name and the buttons stay on their own line. While a change is scheduled for the renewal it says so, with Cancel to undo it: "Dropping to 4 seats at renewal (Nov 1)" for fewer seats, or "All seats become Team at renewal on Nov 1" when the tier is going down. While a change is scheduled you can still add seats or schedule another change: the window names the scheduled change and offers to replace it (see Scheduled changes on a team plan, below). Pressing Cancel shows a "Scheduled change cancelled" message with an Undo button for a few seconds; Undo puts the same change back, and if it cannot, the message says the change is not scheduled and where to set it again.

  • A search field filters the table by name or email.

Inviting people

Press Invite on the People page and enter an email address. The person gets an email with a link that works for 14 days. Binee tells you what really happened to that email: "Invitation sent to <email>" means it went out. If the invitation was created but the email could not be sent, the message says so with the reason in plain words, for example "Invitation created, but the email could not be sent (that address bounced or marked an earlier email as spam). Use Copy link or Resend." The invitation still exists and still holds its seat. They open it, sign in or create an account with the address the invitation was sent to, and press Accept: nothing is accepted on its own. The seat then covers their own workspace; nobody is ever added to your workspace. A pending invitation holds a seat. Its row offers Resend (next to the status, and in the row's menu): each resend makes a new link and the old one stops working, up to 10 sends per invitation, and a team can send at most 50 invitations and resends a day. Copy link: right after you create or resend an invitation, the confirmation message has a Copy link button and the invited row shows Copy link beside Resend, so you can paste the link into a message yourself (useful when the person says the email never arrived). Binee does not keep the link itself, so a link can only be copied in the same visit; after you reload the page the row offers Resend only (hover it for the reminder), and Resend makes a fresh link you can copy again. Only you, the person who pays for the team, ever receives the link. Revoke invitation, in the row's menu, cancels it at once and frees the seat it was holding.

If every seat is in use when you invite, the same window (titled "Add a seat to invite") offers to add one: "All <N> seats are in use. Adding a seat is charged to your card, prorated to your renewal on <date>." It then shows the same numbers table as Manage seats (the change, the price a seat, your team after and Due today with the exact amount Stripe will charge, including any discount or tax), the note "Due today is Stripe's exact figure, prorated to your renewal on <date>. Nothing is charged until you press the button.", and one button that names the money (for example "Pay $21.00, add a seat and invite"). The window adds that the seat is ready at once and the invitation goes to the address you entered. Pressing it adds the seat and sends the invitation in one step; if the payment does not go through, nothing changes. If the exact amount cannot be loaded the window says so and does not offer the charge. While a seat reduction is scheduled, invitations past the reduced number are refused with the reason, so a new person is never given a seat that disappears at renewal.

Removing a person and changing seats

  • Remove now (in the row's menu) ends a member's seat immediately, after a confirmation that tells you exactly what happens: the person keeps their own account, the seat keeps its remaining credits for whoever you invite next, and the current cycle is not refunded.

  • Change your team plan: ONE window changes the plan level, the number of seats and the billing period together. It opens from Manage seats on the People page (with the seats control ready), from the "Upgrade seats to Business" and "Switch to yearly" buttons on the Billing page suggestion panel, from the cards on the For teams tab of the Choose a plan window, and from Edit on the notice of a scheduled change (filled in with that change). It is titled "Change your team plan" and says "Tier, seats and billing in one place. Anything that grows is charged now; anything that shrinks waits for your renewal." It shows Team and Business side by side with the price a seat a month (on yearly billing the yearly price as a monthly figure) and the credits each person gets; your current level is marked Current and a level you pick is marked New. Opened with Edit on a scheduled change, the window edits that schedule instead: it starts filled in with the scheduled change, today's level is marked Today (never Current) and a level the schedule moves to is marked Scheduled, the Seats line reads for example "5 today, 3 scheduled - 3 used, 1 invited", the table shows Today and "Scheduled for Nov 28" (for example "Team, 3 seats, monthly") with the price from that date, and the footer has ONE button that follows your pick (the window's X closes it without changing anything): when your pick is the scheduled change, the button reads "Keep things as they are" and only closes the window; when you dial it back to today's plan, the button reads "Keep current plan" and cancels the scheduled change (with the "Scheduled change cancelled" message and its Undo), with the line "This removes the scheduled change." under it. Picking something else shows the amber replace line and the usual "Pay ... and change now" or "Schedule for ..." button, as for any new change. A Seats row has a minus and plus control for the new total and the line "5 today - 3 used, 1 invited", and a Billing row has a Monthly and Yearly switch (picking Yearly shows "10% off"). A small table then shows the Change (for example "Team to Business, 5 to 7 seats, monthly to yearly billing"), Due today for everything that is charged now, and "At renewal (Nov 28)" with the monthly amount for everything that waits. The main button names what happens: "Pay $60.00 and change now" when something is charged now, or "Schedule for Nov 28" when everything waits for the renewal, and "Keep things as they are" closes the window with nothing changed. Due today is the exact amount Stripe will charge for the rest of the billing period (including any discount or tax). It is fetched live a moment after you stop changing the number, and while it loads the button says "Getting the amount". Nothing is charged until you press the button. If the exact amount cannot be loaded the window says so in the Due today row, offers Try again and keeps the button disabled, so there is never a charge without a figure. You are never charged more than the amount you saw: if the amount is higher when you press pay (for example, the billing period rolled over), nothing is charged and the window shows the new amount with a note and asks you to confirm again; if it turned out lower, the lower amount is what Stripe charges. The seats are ready at once after the payment; if the payment does not go through, nothing changes. If Binee cannot confirm what happened when you press pay (the connection drops, the payment provider does not answer, or the answer is unclear), the window does not offer the button again, because the card may already have been charged: it asks you to reload and check your plan before trying again. If your team changed after you saw the amount (for example, a seat was added from another tab), nothing is charged: reload and check the new amount. For example, adding two Business seats halfway through the month charges about half of the $88 monthly price for them, and the window shows that exact figure before you pay. When one pick holds more than one thing that is charged now and does NOT switch to yearly (say Business and more seats), Stripe can only price each charge against the team as it is at that moment, so the window shows the first exact amount and names the next step ("Then add 2 seats, exact amount shown next"); after you pay the first, the window moves to "Step 2 of 2" with its own exact amount and its own button. Each step is confirmed on its own, a step that fails stops the rest and the window lists what was made and what was not, and anything that waits for the renewal is scheduled right after the last payment. A pick that switches to yearly is different: it is always ONE payment for the whole new plan, whatever else it changes (see "Switching between monthly and yearly billing" below). A team plan holds one scheduled change at a time, and that one change can carry everything that shrinks: a pick that lowers more than one thing (for example Business to Team and fewer seats together, or yearly to monthly with fewer seats) is made in one go, as ONE scheduled change at the renewal, with "Schedule for Nov 28" as the button and the numbers table showing the whole plan after the renewal (for example "At renewal (Nov 28)" with the monthly amount for Team, 2 seats). When fewer seats means fewer people than you have, you choose who leaves in the same window. For example, a Business plan with 3 seats can move to Team with 2 seats in a single press; on the renewal date the person you chose leaves, the others become Team seats and receive the Team credits for the new period, and the team is billed monthly or yearly as you picked. Nothing is charged today for the scheduled part, and if you also pick more seats (a charge now), that part is charged now at its own exact amount and the scheduled part waits for the renewal after it. If you pick monthly to yearly, nothing waits: the yearly switch takes the whole pick now, as one payment.

  • Scheduled changes on a team plan (fewer seats, all seats switching from Business to Team, or yearly billing switching to monthly, each at the renewal; moving from Team to Business or from monthly to yearly is immediate, see below): a team plan holds one scheduled change at a time, and it is always visible and always undoable. Billing and usage and the People page both show the same notice: "On Nov 12 your plan becomes Business, 2 seats, monthly", with the names of the people who leave and what the team will pay after the change (for example "Renews Nov 12 - $88 a month (after the change)"), and two buttons: Edit opens the Change your team plan window filled in with the scheduled change, and Keep current plan cancels it. The plan card also shows an amber chip with the change and its date (for example "Changes Nov 12: 3 seats to 2" or "Seats switch to Business on Nov 12"). Cancelling shows "Scheduled change cancelled" with an Undo button that puts the exact change back (a drop in seats with the same people leaving, a switch of level, a switch to monthly billing, or several of these together as one change). On the For teams tab of Choose a plan, your package's card shows the same sentence with a button that really cancels it ("Cancel the change, keep Business"); when the Monthly and Yearly switch at the top is on the other billing period, the "Switch to yearly" (or "Switch to monthly") button stays on the card under that sentence, so a waiting change never hides it. Nothing is ever refused because something is scheduled: whatever you confirm in the window replaces the scheduled change, and the window says so in one amber line, "This replaces your scheduled change. The seat reduction you scheduled earlier is removed and this takes its place." (or "The switch to Team", "The switch to monthly billing" or "The scheduled plan change" for those changes). The replacement is made only when you press the button, at the exact amount shown for anything charged now; the scheduled changes themselves charge nothing today. When a change replaced a scheduled one, the confirmation says so in one clause, whatever made the change: the seat toast reads, for example, "Seat added and invitation sent to ana@example.com Your scheduled seat reduction on Nov 12 was replaced." and the window's done line adds the same sentence. A scheduled change is only replaced when your page had SEEN it (or had seen that nothing was scheduled): a seat add, an upgrade or a switch to yearly sent from a page that never saw the change, while one is waiting, is refused with "A change is already scheduled for your renewal." and nothing is replaced or charged, so a change your colleague scheduled in another tab is never removed by accident. If something fails after the old change was removed, the message says so plainly: the earlier change was removed and the new one was not made (the Billing page then shows what is really scheduled). Every change carries the version of the scheduled change you were looking at, so two tabs cannot overwrite each other: if the scheduled change was changed elsewhere while your window was open, Binee changes nothing, shows "The page was out of date: your scheduled change was updated somewhere else. Nothing was changed. We reloaded it, so check it and try again.", and you look again before pressing. If you press Keep current plan on a change that is already gone because the page was out of date, Binee says "That change was already gone - the page was stale" instead of showing an error. A team plan that is set to end, or to move to a For-you plan, shows "Ends" with the date and Keep my team plan under Payment and account; Binee does not suggest a Business upgrade over these states, the Change your team plan window says why nothing can be changed, and Keep my team plan is the way back.

  • Fewer seats take effect at your renewal. If the new number is below the people who hold or are invited to a seat (used plus invited), a "Choose who leaves" list appears in the same window: tick as many people as must go, each with their initials, name and email. A ticked member is marked "Leaves Nov 28" and keeps their seat until the renewal; a ticked invitation reads "Invitation revoked now" and is revoked right away. Under the list the window says "They keep access until Nov 28. Every remaining seat refills in full at the renewal." and counts "Choose 1 more." until enough are ticked; the button stays disabled until then. When the same pick also switches to yearly, the ticked people do not wait for a renewal: the yearly term starts today, so they leave today. The ticked member is marked "Leaves today" and the line reads "They leave when you switch to yearly - today. Their unused credits return to the seat tank." (an invitation is still revoked right away). Dropping only open seats needs no list. The table shows no Due today: nothing is charged for fewer seats, and the button reads "Schedule for Nov 28". Until the renewal the People page and Billing and usage show the pending change with Edit and Keep current plan. Your own seat cannot be ticked: you pay for the team, so your seat stays with it (to stop paying, cancel the team plan). A package cannot go below 2 seats; to pay for one person, choose a plan for yourself instead.

  • Upgrading all seats from Team to Business happens right away, not at the renewal: a change that grows is always immediate and a change that shrinks is always scheduled. The "Upgrade seats to Business" button on the Billing page suggestion panel, and the same button in the Choose a plan window, open the Change your team plan window with Business already picked (from the Choose a plan window it closes that window first). The table shows the Change ("Team to Business"), Due today, which is Stripe's exact prorated figure for moving every seat now, and Your team after (for example "$132 a month"). For example, with 3 Team seats and half the month left, Due today shows $30.00 and the button reads "Pay $30.00 and change now". Nothing is charged until you press that button, and you are never charged more than the amount shown: if the live amount has gone up since you opened the window, Binee shows the new figure and charges nothing until you confirm it, and a declined card changes nothing. When the payment succeeds, the window says "Your team plan is changed" with "Every seat on your team is Business now.", and every seat and every pending invitation becomes Business at once, and each person who already received their credits this period is topped up toward the Business amount in proportion to the time left in the period: the top-up is the difference between the two seat amounts (150 credits) multiplied by the share of the period still ahead, added to what they have, never replacing it. For example, with half the period left, someone who started the period with 150 credits and has used 40 ends up with 185, and their credit history shows "Business seat upgrade: +75 credits (prorated to your renewal)". The window says it plainly: "Each seat is topped up toward Business credits in proportion to the time left this cycle; limits lift right away." The limits lift at once and the full Business amount arrives at the next renewal. Credits a removed member left waiting this period move up the same way, so the next person to take that seat claims a Business-sized amount. A person who has not been granted credits this period yet, or who has a plan of their own, receives nothing extra. If the payment went through but the last step did not finish, the window says so and offers Finish upgrade, which completes it without a second charge; Binee also finishes it by itself within a day. The Billing page keeps a notice for as long as an upgrade is unfinished, even after you close the window or reload: "Your upgrade to Business is not finished", with a Finish upgrade button that never charges anything. A renewal that arrives before the upgrade is finished completes it first, so nobody on your team is ever removed because of it. If a change is scheduled for the renewal, the window shows the amber replace line described above and the same button. Going from Business to Team stays a scheduled switch at the renewal.

  • While the one-time team discount is running (see "A one-time discount offer" below), any seat change you confirm ends it: adding seats, scheduling fewer seats or switching the tier. The confirming window warns you first with one amber line ("Your team is on 30% off until" the date, "This change ends it, and the offer cannot be claimed again."), and the change then happens with no discount carried forward. A seat add's Due today already shows the undiscounted amount, so the figure you confirm is the figure Stripe charges. The Change your team plan window warns the same way with "Your 30% offer ends with this change. The discount stops at the switch; it does not come back." The Cancel team plan button in the Payment and account section opens the cancel steps described above; when the team plan is already set to end, that section shows the end date and Keep my team plan instead.

  • Cancelling the team plan: Cancel the team plan ends it at the end of the billing period, through the same steps as cancelling an individual plan. The window has no step counter, only a close button, and takes up to four steps: 1. What ends, a Now and After table counted from your team (how many seats you pay for, how many people hold one and the date they lose them, the team credit pool, and that each member's own workspace goes read only until they choose a plan of their own; nobody's workspace or data is deleted). 2. If you are eligible, the one-time discount offer for the team (see "A one-time discount offer" below); if not, there is no step 2. 3. "Why are you cancelling?", the same optional list and note as an individual plan; nothing is required. 4. The final confirm with the date the team plan ends and a compact table; Cancel team plan confirms, and if the offer is still available this step carries its last-chance banner. Keep my team plan is the main button on every step, and closing the window cancels nothing. Everyone keeps their seat until the end date. Keep my team plan (on Billing and usage) undoes the cancellation before that date and your team continues as before. If your card fails, seats stay active while Stripe retries, and the people with seats see that the team's renewal is pending and that their credits have not refreshed yet. Seats follow the same cancellation policy as plans (see Cancellation policy below): nothing is refunded. Removing a person or reducing the seat count never refunds the current period.

  • The Choose a plan window knows about your team package. On the For you tab it opens with a notice: "You are on a Team package. A plan for just you ends your team's seats at the renewal on <date>." Personal and Pro are never marked as your current plan, and each button reads "Move to Personal on <date>" (or "at your renewal" when there is no date); pressing one opens the move window straight away, which loads its numbers inside itself. On the For teams tab your package carries the "Your package" badge, and the Monthly and Yearly switch at the top is live: the cards show the seat prices for the cycle you pick. The other level has the one action: "Upgrade seats to Business" from Team, or "Switch seats to Team" from Business, with the line "Upgrading moves all 5 seats now and charges the prorated difference today: $220 a month from <date>, your renewal. Seat count changes live under Settings, People, Manage seats." When the switch at the top says another billing cycle than your package has, your package's card offers "Switch to yearly" (or "Switch to monthly") and the other level's line says the plan change opens with that billing. Every one of these actions closes this window and opens the Change your team plan window described above, filled in with your pick, where the exact amount and the confirmation live; this window itself charges nothing. When a change is scheduled, your package's card shows "On <date> your plan becomes ..." with a "Cancel the change, keep Business" button that cancels it (with the Undo message), instead of a button that only closes the window. While the team plan is set to end, or is already moving to a For-you plan, the window says so instead of offering the switch, and Keep my team plan is the way back. The window never sells a second package and has no cancel button for the team itself: cancelling the team plan lives on the Billing page, under the account rows.

Switching between monthly and yearly billing

A team plan can change its billing period without changing its level or its seats. Yearly billing is 10 percent off the monthly seat price, for example five Business seats cost $2,376 a year on yearly billing instead of $2,640 on monthly billing.

Switching from monthly to yearly happens right away, because it starts a new yearly term today. It is the Billing row of the Change your team plan window (the "Switch to yearly" button on the suggestion panel and on the Choose a plan window open it on Yearly). Before anything is charged, the window shows Due today with the exact amount Stripe will charge (the year, minus the unused part of the month you already paid), the date the new year ends, and the credits each seat keeps getting every month; the one pay button names the amount. The yearly switch takes the WHOLE pick: if you also change the level or the number of seats in the same window, it is still ONE payment, for the new plan as you picked it (for example Business with 8 seats billed yearly, instead of today's Team with 5), and everything in the pick happens now: more seats and the level are applied at once, and when you lowered the seats below the people you have, the people you ticked leave today, at the switch (their unused credits return to the seat tank, exactly as when someone is removed), and the invitations you ticked are revoked. Nothing is left waiting for the end of the new year, and no scheduled change is made. For example, a monthly Business plan with 5 seats that you change to Team with 3 seats billed yearly, ticking the two people who leave, is charged once for three yearly Team seats, the two people leave today, and the others become Team seats right away. If the payment does not go through, nobody leaves and nothing changes. If the payment went through but the people or the level could not be finished (rare), the window says "The switch is paid and done, but not everything after it finished. Check your team on the People page." and the unfinished part (a person still holding a seat, or an upgrade to Business, which keeps its "Finish upgrade" notice on Billing and usage) can be completed from there. Binee also finishes the people and the level by itself within a day, without a second charge, and pressing the switch again after an unclear answer finishes it the same way. If someone accepted an invitation while the switch was being made and your team now has one more person than it pays for, the window says "One more person holds a seat than your team now pays for. Choose who leaves on the People page.". Nothing is charged until you press it, and if the exact amount cannot be loaded the window says so and offers no charge. You are never charged more than the amount you confirmed: if the amount is higher when you press pay (for example, the billing period rolled over), nothing is charged and the window shows the new amount and asks you to confirm again; if it turned out lower, the lower amount is what Stripe charges. If the payment does not go through, your plan does not change. Switching on its own does not give anyone credits twice and does not take any away: every seat already holds the credits of the month in progress, so nothing is added on the day you switch. When the same pick moves a Business team to Team, each person who already received their credits this month gives back the difference between the two seat amounts (150 credits) in proportion to the time left in the month, taken only from credits they have not used (a person who used most of their credits gives back only what they have left, and used credits are never touched), so changing level never adds credits beyond what you have not yet used; their credit history shows "Team seat change: -75 credits (prorated to your renewal)". Credits a removed member left waiting this month move down the same way, so the next person to take that seat claims a Team-sized amount. For example, with half the month left, a Business member who has not used any of their 300 credits keeps 225. Credits keep arriving monthly on a yearly team plan: the first refill under the new term arrives on the day the current month would have ended, then every seat is refilled every 30 days until the year ends and the next year begins, exactly as for a team plan that was bought yearly. The receipt is under Payment and invoices.

Switching from yearly to monthly waits for your renewal. Nothing is charged or refunded now, you keep the year you paid for, and on the renewal date your team continues on monthly billing at the monthly seat price, with the same seats and the same level. For example, a yearly Business plan with five seats that renews on Nov 26 becomes monthly on Nov 26 and is then charged $220 a month. It is one scheduled change like any other, so a team plan has only one change waiting at a time (fewer seats, a switch of the seats to the other level, or this): if another change is already scheduled, the Change your team plan window shows the amber line "This replaces your scheduled change", and scheduling the billing switch removes the earlier change; and a monthly-to-yearly switch that is confirmed while a change is waiting replaces it the same way. Billing switching to monthly can be combined with a bigger level or more seats in one pick (those are charged now and the billing switch is scheduled after them), but not with another shrinking change. The notice of a waiting billing switch ("On Nov 26 your plan becomes Business, 5 seats, monthly") has Edit and Keep current plan, and Keep current plan removes it, like any other scheduled change. Switching to yearly never leaves a part of your pick waiting: fewer seats, the level and who leaves all happen at the switch (see above). If a change is already scheduled when you switch to yearly, the switch replaces it, and says so, as for every immediate change.

The one-time team discount and a billing switch do not mix. Switching to yearly while a running 30% discount is on the team ends the discount (the window warns you first, like any package change). A yearly team plan that has claimed the offer but not started it already moves to monthly billing at 30% off when the paid year ends, so switching to monthly yourself cancels that waiting offer (and the offer cannot be claimed again), and switching to yearly is refused while it waits with "You can claim the offer or change your billing period, not both. Nothing was changed." While a billing switch is waiting for your renewal, the one-time offer waits too: remove the scheduled change first.

Moving from a team plan to a plan of your own

If you pay for a team plan and pick a For-you plan (Personal or Pro) in Choose a plan, Binee does not buy a second plan next to your team. Instead it shows one warning window with a Now and After table counted from your team. The Now column is headed with the real package ("Team - 5 seats") and its counts underneath ("Now: 1 used (you), 2 invited, 2 available"). The rows are the people who hold a seat now (for example "1 (you)", or "3 (you + 2)" when two other people hold seats) against "Just you" after, the credits a month you get from your seat (for example "150 a seat") against the credits of the new plan ("300 for you"), and what you pay now against the new plan's price. The After column is coloured by direction: red with a down arrow only for something you really lose (people losing a seat, fewer credits); more credits show in green with an up arrow, and the price stays neutral with an arrow showing whether it goes down or up. If nobody besides you holds a seat, the people row is neutral. When other people hold seats, an amber notice names how many people lose their seat and on which date, and says: "They keep their accounts and their data; their workspaces go read only until they choose a plan of their own. Nobody is charged anything new today." When nobody besides you holds a seat but invitations are still open, there is no amber warning; a quieter notice says "Nobody else holds a seat today. Your 2 open invitations are withdrawn on Nov 26, 2026. Anyone who accepts before Nov 26, 2026 also loses the seat then." The window re-reads your team every time it opens, so that sentence is true when you see it. If a change is already scheduled for your renewal (a seat reduction or a plan switch of the seats), the window names it and the main button becomes "Replace it and switch to <plan>": pressing it removes the earlier change and schedules this one. If the one-time team discount is available, the window also offers it (claiming it keeps the team instead). The main button is Keep the team instead; the outlined Switch button (for example "Switch to Pro on Nov 26, 2026") is the only thing that schedules the move. The summary under the table names the real first charge: "Charged today: Nothing", then "First charge" with the date and the exact amount that leaves your card, for example "On Nov 26, 2026 your card is charged $44" for a monthly plan or the whole year in one payment ("$475.20 for the year") for a yearly one. The charge uses the card your team plan was paid with, and you do not need to be there for it. When the day comes and it works, one email says your new plan started and your team plan ended as scheduled (you do not also get the "your team plan ended" email). If the card is declined or asks for authentication, the new plan is not started, nothing is charged, and an email tells you what to do. If you change your mind before the date by pressing Keep my team plan, the move is cancelled with it; a move cannot be scheduled while you also pay for a plan of your own, and the person who pays for the team cannot remove or leave their own seat (to stop paying, cancel the team plan).

Confirming charges nothing today. Your team plan runs to the end of the paid period, everyone keeps their seat until then, and on that date the team plan ends and your own plan starts on the card on file: you are charged the new plan's price that day and your credits are set to its monthly allowance, so you continue without a gap. Each other member's seat ends that day with the usual notice, and their own workspace goes read only until they choose a plan of their own, exactly as when a team plan is cancelled. You can change your mind any time before the date with Keep my team plan, which removes both the scheduled end and the planned switch. While the move is scheduled, other seat changes are not possible (keep the team first, then change seats). If the payment for the new plan does not go through on that day (for example the card was declined), the plan is not started and nothing is charged: you get an email saying exactly that, your workspace is in the ordinary ended state with your data kept for 60 days, and choosing the plan from Settings, then Billing and usage starts it as soon as the card works. If you confirm the move while the one-time team discount is running, the discount ends with it (the window warns you first).

The team credit pool

A team plan can carry one shared pool of extra credits, paid for only by the person who pays for the team. The pool is a backstop: when someone's own seat credits (and any extra credits they bought themselves) cannot cover an Assistant conversation, the missing part is taken from the pool and the conversation goes through. Nobody has to stop working mid-month. For example, a colleague who is using the Assistant to chase clients whose invoices are overdue while their emails sit unanswered can keep going after their seat credits run out, because the pool covers the difference.

  • Funding: only the payer funds the pool, from Settings, then Billing and usage. Pool credits are bought in the same packs as extra credits (100, 150, 200, 250, 500, 750, 1000 or 2000) at the normal extra-credit price, in the same Add pool credits window, paid once on Stripe's secure checkout, or added automatically by auto top-up when the payer has turned it on for the pool. They do not reset month to month: whatever is left stays in the pool, and the pool is usable for as long as the team plan is active. If the team plan ends, the remaining pool credits cannot be drawn.

  • Drawing: only people whose plan IS their seat draw from it (someone paying for a plan of their own is covered by that plan, not the pool), and only automatically, only for the part of a conversation their own credits cannot cover. A member's own seat credits and own extra credits are always used first. The pool never goes below zero: when it cannot cover the whole difference, it gives what it has and the rest follows the normal out-of-credits rules.

  • What the payer sees: the pool balance and, for the current credit period, who drew from it and how much, by email address. Never what the credits were spent on.

  • What a member sees: on their billing page, when their seat credits are used up and the pool is covering them, "Your seat credits are used up. Your team's pool is covering you." In their credit history, a conversation the pool paid for says so (for example "Assistant conversation (covered by your team's pool)").

  • Requesting credits: when a member's seat credits are used up and the pool is empty or absent, their billing page shows a Request credits button. Pressing it emails the payer that this person ran out of credits, at most once per person per day. Nothing is bought or changed by the request itself.

If you have a seat

Your plan card says you have a seat on <name>'s team. Your credits are yours alone: nobody else can see them, and the person who pays cannot see your work; they can see when you last used Binee, and your Billing page says so. A Team seat has the same limits on cards and connections as the Personal plan and a Business seat has none. You cannot change or cancel the seat, because the person who pays for it does, and there is no leave button: to stop using the seat, choose a plan of your own (it takes over and the seat waits behind it) or ask the person who pays to remove you, which they do from their People page. When your seat credits run out, the team's shared pool covers you; if it is empty too, Request credits asks the person who pays to top it up (one request a day). When the pool's balance is known, the second row of your credits breakdown reads Pool credits with that shared balance instead of extra credits.

If you are the person who pays for the team, your plan card shows the package itself: Team or Business large with a chip for the price a seat (for example "$24 a seat") and the cycle pill, the subline "Your team's package: 5 seats, $120 a month. You pay for it and hand out the seats.", then a seats line (for example "Seat 1 is yours. 3 used, 1 invited, 1 available - manage people and seats under Settings, People"), the refill line ("Each seat refills to 150 credits on Nov 1; a swapped seat keeps its remaining credits") and the Stripe line with the monthly total, with Change plan and Manage people under them. It never says your plan is paid by your own team, never offers Request credits (you fund the pool), and does not carry the note about your team owner seeing when you last used Binee. On your credits card the second breakdown row reads Pool credits with the team pool's balance, and the card's button is Add pool credits, which opens the same buy window as Buy extra credits with the title "Add pool credits" and the pool's own wording ("Shared extra credits, paid by you. Everyone draws from it when their seat runs dry."). There is no Leave my seat button: a team has no ownership transfer, so the person who pays cannot leave their own team; you manage seats and people under Settings, then People.

Your credit history names seat credits by the SOLD seat name, with one line per thing that happened. A seat's grant reads "Team seat: 150 credits this cycle" or "Business seat: 300 credits this cycle", with "(prorated to your renewal)" added when your first grant covered only part of the cycle. When your team upgrades from Team to Business part way through the period, a second line adds the prorated difference straight away: "Business seat upgrade: +75 credits (prorated to your renewal)" (the amount depends on how much of the period is left). A seat that hands you what a removed member left this cycle reads "Seat credits: <N> remaining this cycle". If you accepted the seat while your free trial still had credits, the history shows the two honest lines instead of one confusing net amount: "Trial credits set aside: a Team seat covers you now" with the set-aside amount as a minus, then the seat grant line with the full amount, so each line reads on its own and the balance still adds up. Your trial credits come back if the seat ends while the trial window is still open.

If you already pay for your own plan when you accept, the Accept screen tells you before you press it: "Your Pro plan ends on <date> - you keep what you paid for. Your team seat takes over that day." (it names your own plan and its renewal date; if you claimed a stay offer on it, the sentence adds "Your claimed offer ends with it."). Pressing Accept sets your own plan to end on that date, so it cannot renew next to your seat and you never pay for both; there is no separate question to answer and nothing is refunded early. Choosing No thanks keeps your own plan exactly as it is. Until that date, your seat waits behind your own plan ("Your own plan runs to <date>; your seat on <name>'s team takes over then."). If setting your own plan to end fails, you still have the seat, and Billing and usage says in a warning "Your own plan is still set to renew" with a Cancel plan button, because you would otherwise pay for both. Having a seat replaces the free trial for as long as you hold it, and a trial that was still running comes back if your seat ends in time. If you are invited before your trial has started, it waits until you accept or the invitation ends, but for at most 30 days after the first invitation to your address; resending the invitation does not extend that.

When a seat ends, the credits it gave end with it. Extra credits you bought yourself stay yours.

You cannot delete your account while a seat covers your workspace. Ask the person who pays to remove your seat first, then delete your account.

When a seat ends you are told in its own words, and your account and data stay:

  • Removed: "Your seat on <name>'s team ended on <date>. Your account and data are still here. Choose a plan to keep going."

  • You left: "You left <name>'s team on <date>. Your account and data are still here. Choose a plan to keep going."

  • The team plan ended: "<name>'s team plan ended on <date>, so your seat ended with it. Your account and data are still here. Choose a plan to keep going."

The action is Choose a plan. A seat ending never mentions a trial, and the screens become read only exactly as for any ended state.

Extra credits and pool credits

Once you have a plan you can buy extra credits at any time at $0.12 per credit. They are part of a plan: during the trial, and while the account is read only, there is no Buy extra credits button. The credits column says "Extra credits come with a plan." and Choose a plan opens the plans (an old link to Buy extra credits opens a window that sends you to the plans). Extra credits never expire and are used after your monthly allowance runs out. In the header popover and on the credits card the second row reads Extra credits for your own bought credits. On a team, where the shared pool's balance is known, it reads Pool credits instead: the pool the person who pays funds, which everyone on the team draws from once their seat credits run out. For example, a team member with 12 seat credits left and 200 pool credits sees 212 on the header button and Monthly credits 12 and Pool credits 200 in the popover.

Auto top-up

Auto top-up buys extra credits for you automatically so the Binee Assistant never stops mid-month. You pick a threshold (10, 20, 50 or 100 credits) and an amount (50, 100, 200 or 500 credits); when your balance drops below the threshold, Binee charges your saved card for the amount at the usual $0.12 per credit and adds the credits right away. For example, with a threshold of 20 and an amount of 100, the moment an Assistant conversation takes your balance from 20.4 to 19.85 credits, Binee charges $12.00 to your saved card and adds 100 extra credits, so your next question about, say, which clients emailed while their tasks are overdue is never blocked by an empty balance. It sits on Billing and usage, directly under your plan and credits.

  • Where to find it: Settings, then Billing and usage. Turning it on needs a saved card (the card from your plan or an earlier purchase; you can change it in the Stripe billing portal under Payment and invoices).

  • When it charges: right after an Assistant conversation takes the balance below your threshold, and once a day as a safety check. It never charges more than once an hour, and never while the balance is at or above the threshold.

  • The section shows what happened this cycle ("This cycle: topped up twice, $24.00 in total") and you get an email each time a top-up runs.

  • Where the credits go: on a Personal or Pro plan they go into your own workspace balance, exactly like credits you buy by hand, and they never expire. If you pay for team seats, auto top-up refills your team's credit pool instead.

  • The email trail: every successful top-up sends a receipt with the credits added and the exact charge. If the card fails, you get an email saying what failed, that nothing was charged and no credits were added, and how to fix it. After 3 failed attempts in a row, auto top-up turns itself off and you get one final email; update your card and turn it back on when you are ready. In the rare case a charge goes through but the credits cannot be added right away, you get an honest email with a payment reference, Binee keeps trying to deliver them automatically, never charges again before delivering what was already paid for, and turns auto top-up off if the problem repeats.

  • Turning it off: switch it off in Settings, then Billing and usage, at any time. Nothing already bought is taken back.

  • When it is not available: during the free trial (the section shows locked, "With a paid plan"), while an account is read only after access ended, and for a seat on someone else's team (the person who pays for the team manages the pool). Auto top-up is a setting of the person who pays, so each account turns on its own.

Running out of credits

Binee pauses paid work honestly instead of failing quietly: Assistant conversations stop until your credits renew or you add more (during the trial, until you choose a plan). Nothing is deleted. Home, Inbox and All Work keep working, and Binee keeps preparing your items in the background because that does not use credits. Everything resumes as soon as the balance is back to at least 1 credit. Low-balance warning emails are on by default (Settings, then Notifications).

Managing your plan

Settings, then Billing and usage is one page, top to bottom: your plan and credits, the usage warning when credits run low, auto top-up, one suggestion panel, usage, and payment and account.

  • Your plan and credits: two cards side by side. Your plan shows the plan name large with its price under it, a pill with the billing cycle and renewal date (for example "Monthly · renews Nov 18"), what the plan includes (every Binee feature, your limits on Home cards and connections, the refill, and that Stripe bills you), then the main button (Change plan on a paid plan, Choose a plan during the trial) and an Update payment method link that jumps to Payment and invoices. Your credits shows a pill with what your credits refill to and when (for example "Refills to 300 - Nov 18"), a ring with how much of your plan's credits are left, the big number of credits left, and a two-line breakdown of your remaining monthly credits and the extra credits you bought, with a short note on how extra credits work and the Buy extra credits button next to See usage. On a team seat the plan card says "You have a Business seat on <name>'s team" (or a Team seat) with nothing to pay or change, and no Buy extra credits button: seat extras come from the team pool. A team payer's plan card shows the package instead: Team or Business with a price-a-seat chip, the seats and the monthly total, the seats, refill and Stripe lines, with Change plan and a Manage people link to the People page; their credits card's second breakdown row reads Pool credits and its button is Add pool credits, which opens the same buy window as Buy extra credits, titled Add pool credits. During the trial it shows the days left and end date and says "Extra credits come with a plan." After access ends, a notice above the cards gives the ended state in its own words with the date, "Data as of" and the 60-day retention.

  • The usage warning: when credits run low a banner turns amber, and when they are gone it turns red with what is paused (Assistant conversations) and what keeps working (Home, Inbox and All Work, and your items keep preparing), with Buy extra credits and Change plan (during the trial, Choose a plan). Once you are at least 3 days into the credit cycle with usage on at least 3 different days and a steady rate, the low banner can also say "At this pace you'll run out around <date>" with how much of the cycle's credits you used. That line is an estimate worked out from your own recorded usage (credits left divided by your daily rate so far), appears only when the credits would run out before they refill (or before the trial ends), and never appears in the first days of a cycle.

  • Auto top-up: described under Auto top-up below.

  • One suggestion panel, chosen by your state: during the trial it shows the trial end date with the two plans and their prices, and Choose a plan opens the plan window. On Personal it shows what Pro adds (the credits and the removed limits) with Upgrade to Pro. On Pro paid monthly it shows Pay yearly and save 10 percent with Switch to yearly. A team payer on Team seats sees what Business adds for every seat with Upgrade seats to Business, and on Business paid monthly the yearly saving per seat. On Pro or Business paid yearly there is no panel.

  • Usage: described under Usage below.

  • Payment and account: Payment and invoices, Downgrade or cancel, and the Cancellation policy.

Choose a plan (Change plan, or any See plans link in the app) opens one window with everything plan related. At the top sit a For you and For teams switch (For teams only for the person who can buy seats) and the Monthly and Yearly switch with the yearly saving. For you shows Personal and Pro side by side with their price, monthly credits and limits, your current plan marked and a button on each card. For teams shows Team and Business as two selectable cards with one seats counter, the total (for example "5 Business seats: $220.00 a month") and one Buy button; see Team seats below. During your free trial the window says that picking a plan starts it right away and ends the trial, so any trial days left are not carried over. Picking a plan for yourself opens a confirm window that shows the plan, its price per month, how it is billed, and exactly what happens. With no plan yet, Continue to checkout opens Stripe's secure checkout, where you see the exact amount and can enter a promo code. The card is taken only there, in the same flow; Stripe is not involved until you pick a plan. On a paid plan, the window says when the change starts and exactly what is due today, and applies the change right there, without a new checkout; see "Changing a paid plan" below for the steps. While a plan change is scheduled for your renewal, Choose a plan opens on that state first: it names your current plan, what it changes to and when, and a Keep button (for example Keep Pro) that cancels the scheduled change with one click, so a change made by mistake is easy to undo. When the change is to another plan billed yearly it says so (for example "You are on Pro until Nov 26, then Personal, billed yearly."). On the plan cards, your current plan's button reads Keep current plan (it cancels a scheduled change, or just closes the window when none is scheduled; when your plan is set to end it reads Current plan and only closes the window, because resuming is done from the plan card), and the plan a switch is already scheduled to shows "Switch scheduled for" the date and cannot be pressed again. Picking a different plan replaces the scheduled change. Only the person who pays for a plan can change or cancel it.

When a change to a smaller plan is scheduled, the plan card shows the plan name with "until" the date, a "Changes" chip with the date, a line saying what you move to, its price and credits ("Then Personal, $24 a month with 150 credits. You chose this switch; keep Pro any time before Nov 26."), and a Keep button (for example Keep Pro) right on the card that cancels the scheduled change with one click, next to Change plan. When a cancellation is scheduled, the card shows "Ends" with the date and a Keep my plan button instead. A scheduled change and a scheduled cancellation are never shown together, because cancelling drops any scheduled change.

Changing a paid plan updates that same plan, so you only ever have one plan and never pay twice for the same days. An upgrade (a plan with at least as many monthly credits and at least the same monthly price, such as Personal to Pro), or switching from monthly to yearly billing, starts right away and is paid through an explicit confirm step: the window shows Due today with the exact amount Stripe will charge (the price difference for the rest of the current billing period; switching to yearly, the year minus the unused part of your current month), when the plan renews, and when the credits arrive, and the one pay button names the amount (for example "Pay $19.97 and switch now"). Nothing is charged until you press it, and if the exact amount cannot be loaded the window says so and does not offer the charge. You are never charged more than the amount you confirmed: if the amount is higher when you press pay (for example, the billing period rolled over), nothing is charged and the window shows the new amount with a note and asks you to confirm again; if it turned out lower, the lower amount is what Stripe charges. The receipt is under Payment and invoices. Any extra credits for the rest of your current cycle are added as soon as that payment goes through, in proportion to the time left, and the credits you already have stay; the credit history names the upgrade when they land (for example "Upgrade to Pro: +75 credits for this cycle"); after paying, the window confirms the plan you are on now and the credits on their way. For example, moving from Personal (150 credits) to Pro (300 credits) halfway through a monthly cycle charges about half the $20 monthly difference and adds 75 credits; the next renewal then refills the pool to the full 300. If the payment does not go through, your plan does not change. A smaller plan (fewer monthly credits or a lower monthly price, such as Pro to Personal), or switching from yearly to monthly billing, starts at your next renewal: nothing is charged or refunded now, and you keep your current plan and its credits until then. Before a smaller plan is scheduled, a four-step window walks you through it (the same steps as cancelling). Step 1 ("Moving to Personal on" the date) shows a Now and After table of what changes on that day, counted from your own account where it is loaded: the monthly credits (for example 300 to 150 on Pro to Personal), your Home cards and connected tools against the new plan's limits of 10 and 5 (if you are over a limit the row says how many of yours would lock or pause, for example "10, your 4 others lock"; if you are at or under it, the row simply says "Limited to 10" or "Limited to 5", because nothing is lost); Keep (your plan) is the main button, Continue to downgrade moves on, and Cancel my plan instead opens the cancellation steps. If you are eligible, step 2 is a one-time discount offer (see "A one-time discount offer" below); if not, there is no step 2. Next comes "Why are you downgrading?", the same optional list as when cancelling (Too expensive, Not using it enough, Missing a tool or feature, Something else) with an optional note: neither is required, Continue is always available, and your answer is kept on the scheduled change in Stripe to help us improve. The last step confirms the switch ("Switch to Personal on" the date) with a short summary instead of repeating the table: Your plan (for example "Pro until Nov 20, then Personal"), Charged today ("Nothing") and From that date (the monthly price and the credits you will get), and its Switch to Personal button is the only thing that schedules it. When the smaller plan is billed yearly, the summary names the real first charge instead of a monthly price: "On Nov 27: $259.20 for the year ($21.60 a month)", plus the credits you will get. If the one-time offer is still available and unclaimed, this last step also shows the last-chance banner ("Claiming keeps Pro and cancels this switch."). Closing the window at any point changes nothing. While such a change is scheduled, the plan card header shows "Changes to" with the new plan and date, Choose a plan opens on that state with a Keep button, and the Downgrade or cancel row offers Keep my plan to undo it before that date. Cancelling the plan drops a change scheduled for it. A plan with a failed payment, or one already set to end, cannot be changed until the payment is fixed or the plan is kept. If you have claimed the one-time discount, any plan or billing-cycle change you confirm ends it: the window shows one amber line first (for example "You are on 30% off until Jan 15, 2027. This change ends it, and the offer cannot be claimed again."), the discount is removed in the same step that makes the change (it is never carried onto the new price, so a yearly invoice is never discounted by it), and the confirmation says the discount ended (see "A one-time discount offer" below).

Buy extra credits opens a window of the same name: pick a pack (100, 150, 200, 250, 500, 750, 1000 or 2000 credits at $0.12 per credit, so $12 to $240), see the total, and pay on Stripe's checkout. The credits go into your pool, are used after plan credits, and never expire. The person who pays for a team uses the very same window, titled Add pool credits, to fund the team's shared pool: same packs, same prices, same checkout; only the title, the one-line description and where the credits land are different.

Payment and invoices has an Open Stripe button for the Stripe billing portal, where you change your card or billing details and download invoices. It is available after your first purchase of any kind, plan or extra credits, whether or not a plan is currently active, even if that purchase was on an earlier workspace of yours. Until then the button is greyed out and says "Appears after your first purchase" when you hover it. If Stripe cannot open, the page says so in plain words and you can try again. When your Stripe account holds credit, for example the unused time of a plan that ended because you bought a team, the same area also says "Credit on your account: $X. It reduces your next invoice." with the amount. The final invoice of the ended plan can take up to an hour to settle, so until then the line reads "Credit on its way: $X. It reduces your next invoice." (when part has settled and part has not, it says both). When you come back from paying for the team, the "Payment complete" message also says, once Binee has confirmed it, "Your Personal plan ended and the unused time you paid for comes back as a billing credit on your next invoice, not a refund." (with the name of the plan that ended; when no credit was measured, for example a plan whose current period was unpaid, it says only "Your Personal plan ended."). Nothing is shown when there is no credit.

If a payment fails, a notice at the top of the app and on the billing page says so with an Update payment method button that opens the Stripe portal, and the plan stays active while Stripe retries. Billing changes are confirmed by email: a welcome email when your subscription activates, a confirmation when a cancellation is scheduled, a welcome-back confirmation when a scheduled cancellation is removed and your plan resumes, and a notice when your plan ends. Purchases are confirmed by email too: buying extra credits sends a confirmation with the credits added and your new balance. Right after a checkout, the page says the payment was received and confirms it with the server straight away, so your plan, seats or credits are normally already right when it loads. If the payment has not been recorded yet, the page re-checks every couple of seconds for up to thirty seconds and updates by itself the moment it is; if it still is not recorded after that, the page says your payment is still processing (it never says it failed, and nothing is charged twice) and offers Check again. Everything on Billing and usage and in the header also refreshes when you return to the tab and after every change you make (a purchase, a seat added or removed, a plan change, cancelling or keeping a scheduled change), so nothing keeps showing the state from before it.

When you run out of credits in the Assistant, Upgrade opens a window with the plans that would add credits, a Monthly and Yearly switch with the yearly saving, and Upgrade. With no plan yet it goes straight to Stripe's checkout; on a paid plan it opens the same confirm window as Billing and usage, where the upgrade is charged as the price difference for the rest of the billing period. On Pro, which has the most monthly credits, it points to extra credits instead.

Usage

The Usage section of Billing and usage (See usage jumps straight to it) shows credits used in the selected date range, credits left, the daily average, a chart of credits used each day, and the credit history. It counts actual deductions; automatic system work records zero credits.

The credit history names every charge: each Assistant conversation that used credits is listed with its date, the credits it used (for example -0.55) and, for your own conversations, the conversation's name. It sits in the same list as plan refills, purchases, bonuses and adjustments (credits added, for example +300), newest first, with All, Used and Added filters and a Show more button. If more entries exist than the list holds, it says so ("Older ones are not listed here"). If the conversation names cannot be loaded for a moment, the charges are still listed and the page says the names could not be loaded. Someone else's conversation titles are never shown to you. Historical charges from before the Assistant-only policy remain visible under a neutral name. Usage does not show a breakdown of what Binee did or a per-person breakdown.

Cancelling your plan

Cancel from Settings, then Billing and usage, using the Cancel plan button in the Downgrade or cancel row (Cancel my plan at the bottom of Choose a plan opens the same steps). The window has no step counter, only a close button, and takes up to four steps:

  1. What stops. A Now and After table shows what changes when the plan ends: the monthly credits go to 0, the Binee Assistant pauses, your connected tools pause (counted from your own account where it is loaded; if the count is not available the row is left out), and your data stays for 60 days. The main button is Keep my plan, and Continue to cancel moves on.

  2. A one-time discount offer, only if you are eligible (see below). If you are not, this step does not exist.

  3. Why. You can pick a reason and add a note, or skip both: neither is required, and your answer is recorded on the subscription in Stripe to help us improve.

  4. Final confirm. It says the date your plan ends and that your workspace is read only after it, with a short table of what stops (and, if the offer is still available and unclaimed, a last-chance banner for it). Cancel plan confirms; Keep my plan closes the window with nothing cancelled.

Keep my plan is the main button on every step except the offer step, whose main button claims the offer, and the button that moves you toward cancelling is always visible. Closing the window at any point cancels nothing. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing period:

  • Your plan and its features stay active until the period end date.

  • Your remaining monthly credits stay usable until that date.

  • Extra credits are separate from your plan and never expire.

  • After the date there are no further charges: your workspace becomes read only (the "Your plan ended" state above) and your data is kept for 60 days. Reactivating in that time brings everything back as you left it.

A one-time discount offer

Before you cancel or move to a smaller plan, Binee may show a one-time discount offer to stay on your current plan ("Stay on Pro for less"), with the usual monthly price crossed out and the discounted price. The discount is 30% off for 3 months, and the offer itself and Billing and usage show the exact prices. The offer stays available until you claim it: closing the window, pressing No thanks, cancelling your plan or reloading the page does not use it up, and the offer pane says "One offer per account. You can claim it once." Once you have claimed it you no longer see it. The discount can be claimed once per person (a second account or a re-registered account for the same person cannot claim it again). It is offered only when you are eligible: you pay for a Personal or Pro plan yourself (monthly or yearly), the plan is not already ending and has no other discount on it. A plan change scheduled for your renewal does not hide the offer: claiming it means keeping your plan, so claiming also cancels the scheduled change. When one is scheduled, the offer says so under its description (for example "Claiming keeps Pro and cancels your scheduled switch."), and the confirmation after claiming says the switch was cancelled. The last-chance banner on the final cancellation step says the same. If the scheduled change was made for you by support rather than in the app, Binee will not cancel it from here: the claim (and Keep my current plan) is refused with "Your subscription has a scheduled change we cannot modify from here. Nothing was changed. Contact support and we will sort it out." If a plan change gets scheduled in another tab while you are claiming, the claim is refused with "A plan change was scheduled while you were claiming. Nothing was changed. Review your plan, then claim again." If the scheduled change cannot be cancelled, or Binee cannot confirm whether it was cancelled, the discount is not applied and nothing is charged (the page refreshes so you see your plan as it really is); if it is cancelled and the discount then fails, the message says so and you claim again. Binee decides eligibility on the server when the window opens, so it cannot be asked for from anywhere else, and pressing Continue to cancel or Continue to downgrade waits for that check to finish, so the offer is never skipped because you clicked quickly. Claim it with the button on the offer (Keep your plan at a discount, or the Claim button at the bottom, or in the last-chance banner on the final cancellation step): your plan stays exactly as it is, the discount applies to your invoices until the date shown, and you can still change or cancel your plan later. Choosing No thanks moves on (the last-chance banner on the final cancellation step can still be claimed), and closing the window or pressing Cancel plan does not use up the chance: if you come back and are still eligible (for example you kept your plan), the offer is shown again until you claim it. If the discount cannot be applied, the window says so and nothing is changed; if Binee cannot confirm whether it was applied, it says that too and asks you to contact support, rather than guessing. While the discount runs, a dark banner at the top of Billing and usage says you claimed it and when it is active until ("Active until" a date); it also shows what you pay a month instead of the usual price while you are still on the plan you claimed it on, and only the short "You claimed 30% off. Active until" line if you have since changed plan. If the plan is set to end, the banner is hidden.

If you pay for a plan YEARLY, the offer works differently because a year is already paid. For example, on a Pro year that runs to Oct 28, 2027, the offer shows $44 crossed out, $30.80 "a month for 3 months" and "Your paid year runs to Oct 28, 2027. From that day you move to monthly billing at 30% off for 3 months, then $44 a month. You can switch back to yearly any time." Claiming it changes nothing today and refunds nothing: your paid year runs out as usual, then your plan bills monthly at 30% off for exactly three monthly invoices, then at the normal monthly price. Until that day the banner on Billing and usage reads "From Oct 28, 2027: $30.80 a month instead of $44, for 3 months" and the plan card shows the switch to monthly billing as the offer you claimed. It is still the one offer per account, claimable once; if a plan change is scheduled when you claim, claiming cancels it first, exactly as on a monthly plan.

If you pay for a TEAM PLAN, the same one offer exists for the whole package, with team wording: "Keep your team for 30% less" shows the package's monthly total crossed out next to the discounted total, and the body names the per-seat figures (for example "30% off your team's next 3 months ($16.80 a seat instead of $24). Every seat, every member and the pool stay exactly as they are."). The claim button reads "Keep Team at 30% off" (or Business), and the fine print says "One offer per account. Changing the package while discounted ends the discount." It appears in the team cancel steps and in the move-to-a-plan-of-your-own window, under the same rules as the individual offer: it stays available until claimed, eligibility is decided on the server, and it is ONE offer per account and per person ACROSS plan types, so claiming it on a plan and later on a team (or the other way round) is not possible. It is offered on monthly and on yearly team plans. On a YEARLY team plan the offer works the same way as on a yearly individual plan, because the year is already paid: the pane shows the package's MONTHLY total at your current seat count crossed out next to the discounted total (for five Business seats, $220 crossed out and $154 "a month for 3 months"), and says "Your paid year runs to Oct 28, 2027. From that day your team moves to monthly billing at 30% off for 3 months ($30.80 a seat instead of $44), then $220 a month. Every seat, every member and the pool stay exactly as they are." Claiming it changes nothing today and refunds nothing: your paid year runs out as usual with the same seats and prices, then your team is billed monthly at 30% off for exactly three monthly invoices, then at the normal monthly seat price (you can switch the team plan back to yearly billing later, see "Switching between monthly and yearly billing" above). Until that day the plan card on Billing and usage reads "Your offer is scheduled: from Oct 28, 2027, your team is billed monthly at 30% off ($154 a month) for 3 months, then $220. Changing your seats or plan before then ends the offer." Any package change you confirm before that day (adding seats, scheduling fewer seats, a tier switch or upgrade, or moving to a plan of your own), and cancelling the team plan, cancels the offer at once, because the schedule that carries it is replaced: the confirming window warns you first with "Your team's 30% off starts from" the date, "This change cancels it, and the offer cannot be claimed again.", and the cancel step says "The 30% off waiting for" the date "ends now, and keeping your team plan later will not bring it back." If a change fails before it happens (for example your card is declined), Binee puts the offer back and the message says it is still in place; if Binee cannot be sure what happened, or cannot put it back, the message says the offer was cancelled. Once the three discounted months are running, the offer behaves like a monthly team offer: any confirmed package change ends it, and after the third discounted invoice there is nothing left to lose. Claiming while the team plan is set to end keeps the team: the scheduled cancellation (and any planned move to a plan of your own) is removed first, and the confirmation says so. While a seat change is scheduled for the renewal, the offer waits: cancel the scheduled change first. Once claimed, every seat invoice of the discounted months is 30% off, and the discount ends early if you confirm any package change (see "Removing a person and changing seats" above). While it runs, your plan card on Billing and usage shows what your team actually pays: "Your team's package: 5 seats, $84 a month instead of $120, 30% off until" the date, and the Billed by Stripe line says the same.

The discount belongs to the plan and billing cycle you claimed it on. If you confirm any plan or billing-cycle change while it runs (a bigger plan, a smaller plan, or switching between monthly and yearly in either direction), the remaining discounted months are forfeited: the window warns you first with "You are on 30% off until" the date, "This change ends it, and the offer cannot be claimed again." (or, for a yearly claim that has not started, that the change cancels it), and the change then happens with no discount carried onto the new price. A forfeited offer cannot be claimed again. You can still switch back from monthly to yearly at any time; that is a change like any other and forfeits the remaining discounted months. If a change you confirm fails before it happens (for example your card is declined) and the change would have cancelled a yearly claim that has not started yet, Binee puts that claim back, and the message says your plan was not changed and your 30% off offer is still in place; if Binee cannot be sure what happened, or cannot put the claim back, the message says the offer was cancelled and cannot be claimed again. For a yearly claim that has not started, Keep yearly billing (on the plan card or in Choose a plan) ends the claim too: the plan card and Choose a plan both state the schedule in the same words ("Your offer is scheduled: from" the date, the plan "billed monthly at 30% off (" the discounted monthly price "a month) for 3 months, then" the usual monthly price), and both say what ends it: Choose a plan adds "Picking a different plan below replaces it and ends the offer. Keeping your current plan ends it too.", and the plan card adds "Keeping your current plan ends the offer."; afterwards a notice says "Your plan stays as it is. The claimed 30% off ended." Once the three discounted months are over there is nothing left to lose: the plan is an ordinary monthly plan, changes show no offer warning, and nothing is recorded as ended. Cancelling the plan also ends the discount with it: when the discount is running, the first cancellation step says "Your 30% off ends with the plan."; for a yearly claim that has not started it says "The 30% off waiting for" the date "ends now, and keeping your plan later will not bring it back.", because cancelling cancels the claim at once and keeping your plan later does not restore it. If the cancellation itself fails after that claim was cancelled, the message says the plan is unchanged and names the cancelled offer rather than saying nothing was changed.

While a cancellation is scheduled, the plan card shows "Ends" with the date, and the Downgrade or cancel row becomes "Your plan ends on" the date with a Keep my plan button. Keeping your plan before the date undoes the cancellation and your plan continues as before, confirmed by a welcome-back email.

You cannot delete your account while a plan is attached to your workspace, including a plan that is scheduled to cancel but has not reached its end date. Cancel your plan first from Settings, then Billing and usage, or contact support to move it. This protects your plan's credits, which live on the workspace.

Cancellation policy

  • Payments are not refunded. Cancelling stops the next charge, and your plan stays active until the end of the period you already paid for. For example, cancelling a monthly plan on the 10th keeps everything working until the period ends, and nothing is charged after that.

  • This applies to monthly plans, yearly plans, team plans and extra credit purchases alike. Extra credits are separate from your plan and never expire.

Questions about a payment? Contact support from Settings, then Help and support. The policy is also shown on the Billing and usage page under Cancellation policy.

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