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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "billingnow",
 "name": "BillingNow",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "billingnow.com",
 "category": "Finance & Accounting",
 "task": "Paying bills & getting paid",
 "summary": "Invoicing and expense tracking with AI — unlimited invoices, expenses, clients and users on one flat plan, monthly or yearly, made in Geneva.",
 "best_for": "freelancers and small teams that want unlimited invoicing, expenses and client management with zero per-user maths — users are unlimited on both plans, so a five-person team pays $2.00 a head",
 "skip_if": "you need accountant-grade features, payroll or deep integrations (the incumbents' ecosystems are bigger), or you have an existing client list to bring across — the help centre documents export but no import, so every client has to be retyped",
 "honest_knock": "The pricing is genuinely refreshing — two plans, same features on both, unlimited users, no per-seat maths. The honest watch-out is the trial length rather than its terms: three days is short for migrating billing into a new tool, and the practical constraint is that there is no import path. The help centre documents CSV and Excel export but no import, so an existing client list has to be retyped — which is more than three days of work for anyone with a real book. It is also a young product from a small Geneva maker, so weigh ecosystem depth and longevity before you move your billing history in.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$9.99",
  "entry_price_terms": "a month, or $99.90 a year ($8.33/mo), 3-day trial, no card required",
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(re-verified 2026-10-09 on their own pricing FAQ and refund policy; first verified 2026-08-20) Two plans, both carrying the identical feature list with no limits: $9.99 a month, or $99.90 a year which the page itself works out to $8.33 a month and labels 'Save 17%'. Both include unlimited invoices, expenses, client relations, users, estimates and credit notes, plus payment tracking, tax rates, PDF export and the AI assistant. There are no per-user fees and no feature-gated tier. The trial is 3 days and the page states three separate times that no credit card is required to start it. SOC 2 Type II certified with European-standard compliant invoices.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-09",
  "source_url": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "FreshBooks",
  "why": "FreshBooks is the polished incumbent with tiered plans and client limits; BillingNow’s single flat unlimited plan undercuts it hard — you trade ecosystem depth for radical simplicity"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/billingnow.json",
  "review": "https://officesoftwaremarketplace.com/billingnow-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/billingnow/",
  "vendor_site": "https://billingnow.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://billingnow.com/?red=aibuil",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "billingnow:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "billingnow:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "billingnow:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "billingnow:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_found",
   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}