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page_title: Introduction
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# Introduction




### **Overview** 



Juspay Billing is a fully automated recurring payments engine designed to simplify subscription management. Currently, many merchants manage recurring debits manually by maintaining their own schedulers (cron jobs) to trigger transactions. Juspay Billing eliminates this overhead by moving the orchestration, scheduling, and execution logic entirely to the Juspay platform.


### **How it Works** 



The core concept is the **Billing Plan** . Instead of passing amount and schedule details in every transaction, you define a "Plan" (e.g., "Gold Monthly Subscription") once.

1. **Create a Plan:**  Define the interval (e.g., Monthly), amount, and retry logic.
2. **Link Mandate:**  During the first transaction (mandate registration), you link the `plan_id` to the mandate.
3. **Automated Execution:**  Once the mandate is active, Juspay automatically calculates the next execution date and triggers the debit on schedule without any further API calls from your side.


### **Key Features & Use Cases** 



* **Automated Scheduling:**  No need for merchant-side cron jobs.
* **Retry & Recovery:**  Built-in logic to handle failures (Retry, Skip, or Revoke).
* **Use Cases:**  SaaS Subscriptions, Utility Bill Payments, SIPs, and Membership Fees.

![Image](https://dth95m2xtyv8v.cloudfront.net/tesseract/assets/juspay-billing/mermaid-diagram-2025-12-18-092022.png)
*Flow Diagram of Mandate on Billing*



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## See Also

- [Why Billing is a Nightmare](https://juspay.io/in/docs/juspay-billing/docs/billing/why-billing-is-a-nightmare)
- [Plan Types](https://juspay.io/in/docs/juspay-billing/docs/billing/plan-types)