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# Product updates
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## Entitlements
We have introduced Entitlements to manage what customers are allowed to access based on their billing context.
Meteroid supports both:
* **boolean entitlements** (feature-style access such as “enabled/disabled”)
* **metered entitlements** (usage-based limits such as “up to N requests, or units”). For additional flexibility, Meteroid supports multiple reset periods including billing-cycle resets, calendar-based resets, and sliding windows.
This helps ensure end users always access exactly what they are entitled to (no more, no less) based on their subscription and usage limits.
To Learn more about how to manage entitlements in Meteroid, read our [dedicated documentation](https://docs.meteroid.com/entitlements/create-and-manage-entitlements)
## Amend Subscriptions
Subscriptions can now be **amended after creation**, giving you full flexibility to adapt customer subscriptions over time.
You can now:
* Add or remove add-ons from an existing subscription
* Update prices or quantities
* Apply changes immediately or schedule them at the end of the billing period
This is especially important for custom deals and evolving customer requirements, enabling smoother upsell and expansion workflows over time.
## Quotes Simulation
For usage-based products, quotes can now include a **target usage parameter** to simulate expected costs. At the quote level, you can define an estimated usage volume, and the system will compute a projected price based on your pricing model.
It is designed to help end users better understand their expected spend before committing and improve budget planning.
## Auditability
We added an Activity section at the subscription level, providing Account Managers with a complete view of everything that happens throughout a subscription's lifecycle such as:
* Subscription amendments
* Invoice creation
* Credit note issuance
* Other billing-related actions affecting the subscription
In addition, we added a comprehensive Audit Log that allows teams to track events across subscriptions and billing operations.
This gives revenue teams greater visibility into subscription history, making it easier to understand account changes, investigate billing questions, and collaborate efficiently with Customers.
## Docker Compose for Local Deployment
We added a **Docker Compose setup for local development**, making it easier to run Meteroid end-to-end on your machine without complex setup steps.
## Meteroid Connect Platform
The Connect Platform provides the infrastructure for third-party application integration, allowing platforms to view and manage all accounts connected to their platform. Meteroid Connect supports 2 account management set ups:
* Express Accounts: Allows the platform to manage connected accounts via a managed onboarding flow. Meteroid handles the synchronization of billing identities and facilitates the calculation of platform fees during payout events. In this configuration, users only have a read-only view of their account.
* Standard Accounts: In this setup, users have full access to their Meteroid account, while the platform is granted scoped access to specific resources.
## Enhanced Credit Note
When creating a credit note, you can now choose between:
* Crediting select line-items: Users can select individual invoice lines or sub-lines for adjustment. This granular control is particularly useful for matrix pricing models, allowing for the adjustment of specific dimension combinations within a single line item. The system calculates the prorated amount to be credited based on the selected quantity or fixed price.
* Full Cancellation & Replication: Choosing to cancel a full invoice allows for the simultaneous creation of a "Corrected Draft." This draft clones all metadata and line items from the original finalized invoice for immediate modification.
## Batch Processing & Data Ingestion
Meteroid now includes a monitoring interface for high-volume CSV imports (Customer, Subscription or Events imported via CSV). You can now track:
* Ingestion Progress: Track the ingestion progress in real-time to monitor the processing status of large datasets.
* Execution States: The Developers > Batch Processing section now tracks three distinct job states:
\*\* Completed: 100% of records ingested.
\*\* Completed with Errors: Indicates that some rows failed validation (e.g., non-existent customer alias). A CSV file containing only the failed rows can be downloaded for targeted troubleshooting.
\*\* Failed: The entire batch was rejected.
## Enhanced Product Management
The Product architecture replaces the previous "Pricing Component" model. We introduced Products for three key reasons:
* **Reusability:** Unlike Pricing Components, Products can be defined once and reused across multiple plans, simplifying global pricing changes.
* **Advanced Reporting:** Financial reporting and analytics will be available at the Product level, allowing for deeper insights into the performance of specific features.
* **Entitlement Management:** Product-level control will extend to entitlements, enabling you to manage feature access based on the products included in a customer's plan.
## Add Ons
Built on our new product architecture (cf. above), you can now manage optional features independently from your core plans using Add-ons. This allows for modular subscription building without the need to create dozens of plan variations:
* **Plan extension**: Add-ons act as modular extensions to a base Plan, allowing you to attach additional features while keeping an independent pricing logic
* **Self-Serve Control**: Decide whether an add-on is available for customers to purchase via the self-serve portal. You can also define purchase limits to control how many times a specific add-on can be bought by a single customer.
## Real Time Usage Preview
Transparency is key for usage-based billing adoption. We’ve introduced at the subscription level a live preview of Upcoming Invoices based on all data processed by Meteroid to date, whether it is flat rates or usage-based events.
## Subscription Lifecycle: Upgrades & Downgrades
We have formalized the workflow for changing customer plans (whether it is upgrading or downgrading) to improve lifecycle management and support Product-Led Growth (PLG) strategies. Plan upgrades and downgrades can be managed in two ways:
* **Customer Portal**: Customers can transition between plans in total autonomy via the Customer Portal.
* **Directly in Meteroid**: Account managers can trigger transitions via the subscription dashboard.
## Enhanced Trial Logic
We have introduced advanced trial configurations. You can now define trial parameters at the plan level:
* **Duration:** Set a specific number of days for the trial period.
* **Plan Scoping:** Define which specific plan the trial applies to.
* **Charging Logic:** Define whether the user should be charged or not during the trial.
## Credit Notes
Meteroid now supports credit notes for issued invoices:
* **Amount Control:** Issue credit notes for the full invoice amount or a partial (limited) amount.
* **Credit Type:**
* **Credit Balance:** The amount is added to the customer’s balance and applied to future recurring invoices.
* **Refund:** The amount is marked for return to the original payment method.
## New SDK: Java
We have released a **Java SDK** to simplify integration to Meteroid API for JVM-based applications.
* **Core Resources:** Full support for managing `Customers`, `Plans`, `Subscriptions`, and `Invoices`.
* **Usage Ingestion:** Simplified methods for reporting metered events.
* **Installation:** Available via Maven/Gradle.
* **Repository:** [meteroid-oss/meteroid-clients/java](https://github.com/meteroid-oss/meteroid-clients/tree/main/java)
## Advanced Coupons
New rules have been added to grant coupons to users:
* **Plan Assignment:** Coupons can now be restricted to a specific Plan.
* **Billing Cycle Duration:** You can now set a billing cycle limit to define exactly how many billing cycles a discount remains active.
