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title: "Guides"
description: "Guides for the everyday billing jobs in the dashboard: subscriptions, invoices, failed payments, tax, checkout, usage and AI billing, testing and your team."
canonical_url: "https://twominutebilling.com/help/guides"
---
# Guides

> Guides for the everyday billing jobs in the dashboard: subscriptions, invoices, failed payments, tax, checkout, usage and AI billing, testing and your team.

These guides are for the person who runs the billing: a founder, a finance lead or an operations
team. Each guide is one job, done in the dashboard, with no code. To build billing into your
product with the API, see the [developer docs](https://twominutebilling.com/help/developers). New to Two Minute Billing? Start
with [Getting started](https://twominutebilling.com/help/getting-started).

## Day to day

- [Customers and subscriptions](https://twominutebilling.com/help/guides/customers-and-subscriptions): add customers,
subscribe them, change what they pay, and cancel.
- [Invoices and credit notes](https://twominutebilling.com/help/guides/invoices-and-credit-notes): read an invoice, collect or
record a payment, request payment for several invoices at once, keep numbered receipts, and
correct an invoice with a credit note.
- [Recover failed payments](https://twominutebilling.com/help/guides/recover-failed-payments): set a retry schedule, decide
what happens when it runs out, and give some customers their own dunning policy.
- [Handle disputes](https://twominutebilling.com/help/guides/handle-disputes): see each chargeback, what happens to the invoice,
and the evidence you need to respond to the bank.

## Setting up

- [Connect a payment gateway](https://twominutebilling.com/help/guides/connect-a-payment-gateway): connect your own payment
gateway account, so payments go to your bank at your rates.
- [Set up tax](https://twominutebilling.com/help/guides/set-up-tax): charge tax where you are registered, inclusive or
exclusive, with exemptions.
- [Hosted checkout and portal](https://twominutebilling.com/help/guides/hosted-checkout-and-portal): pages with your brand
where customers subscribe, pay, update their card and see their invoices.
- [Payment methods your customers can use](https://twominutebilling.com/help/guides/payment-methods): cards and 3D Secure,
Apple Pay and Google Pay, bank debits, and the mandates and notices that go with them.
- [Emails and branding](https://twominutebilling.com/help/guides/emails-and-branding): the address your billing email comes
from, which emails go out, their wording, and your brand on invoices.
- [Connect your other tools](https://twominutebilling.com/help/guides/connect-integrations): sync HubSpot both ways, and send
sales and refunds to FirstPromoter for your affiliate program.

## Usage and AI billing

- [Price usage and commitments](https://twominutebilling.com/help/guides/usage-and-ai-billing/usage-pricing): tiered, volume
and package pricing on usage, monthly usage on annual plans, and minimum commitments.
- [Meters and rate cards](https://twominutebilling.com/help/guides/usage-and-ai-billing/meters-and-rate-cards): count usage
events with meters and bill a rate for each model and token type.
- [Bill from the AI model price list](https://twominutebilling.com/help/guides/usage-and-ai-billing/model-price-list): bill AI
models at list price or cost plus a markup, and see your margin.
- [Prepaid credits](https://twominutebilling.com/help/guides/usage-and-ai-billing/prepaid-credits): sell credit packs, include
credits in plans, and block usage when credit runs out.
- [Spend limits, alerts and automatic top-up](https://twominutebilling.com/help/guides/usage-and-ai-billing/spend-limits-and-auto-top-up):
cap and watch usage spend, and top up credit before it runs out.

## Running it well

- [Test with Time Travel](https://twominutebilling.com/help/guides/test-with-time-travel): move the clock of a test business
forward to watch renewals, trial ends and retries in seconds.
- [Read your numbers](https://twominutebilling.com/help/guides/read-your-numbers): how MRR, ARR, churn and subscriber mix are
calculated, per currency and per business.
- [Your team, roles and logs](https://twominutebilling.com/help/guides/your-team): a fixed or custom role for each person,
API keys with only the access they need, and a record of who changed what and when.


## Sitemap

See the full [sitemap](https://twominutebilling.com/sitemap.md) for all pages.