Zappier

Metered API platform: per-endpoint pricing, customer types with multipliers and monthly credits, a usage ledger, Stripe metered billing, purchase-order invoicing, a company admin console, a self-service customer portal, and a Zapier integration.

This is the billing and user platform (originally the standalone zappier git tree at ~/zappier). Forgejo name: zappier-edge. It owns signup, TOTP, API keys, rate card, Stripe meter, PO invoices, admin users, and the customer portal. Verae middleware does not replace this.

Forgejo: https://git.georgelambert.org/marchon/zappier-edge
Catalog README: https://zapier.georgelambert.org/packages/zappier/README.pdf
Bring the whole system online: https://zapier.georgelambert.org/packages/verae-ops/GETTING-STARTED.pdf

Documentation (public PDFs)

• USER-MANUAL — operations & usage
• ACCOUNTING — invoices, PO billing, reports
• USER-MANAGEMENT — pricing, customer types
• CUSTOMER-PORTAL — signup, 2FA, reloads
• DEVELOPER
• WALKTHROUGH
• Markdown copies remain next to these files in docs/
• Sample Zapier app: zapier-app/ — https://zapier.georgelambert.org/packages/zappier/zapier-app/README.pdf (if present) or the source tree in git

Surfaces

Surface	URL	Audience
Public API	/v1/*	API customers (x-api-key)
Interactive API docs	/docs	Integrating developers
Admin console	/admin	Company ops & accounting
Customer portal	/portal	End-user customers (signup, 2FA, billing)
Zapier app	zapier-app/	No-code users via Zapier

Pricing model

openapi.yaml defines the API surface; each operationId is a rate-card key. Endpoints carry list prices (seed: src/pricing.ts → DEFAULT_RATE_CARD). Customer types are tier configs (DEFAULT_TIERS) with a multiplier, a monthlyCreditCents quota, and an optional defaultRule for endpoints not on the card. Individual customers can carry a multiplierOverride. Billed price = round(list price × multiplier); usage up to the monthly credit is free. Pricing is editable at runtime in the admin console.

Seed rate card (list prices, cents per call)

Endpoint	Model	List price
status	free	0
storage-list	free	0
transform	fixed	4
storage	variable	10 + 1 per KB metadata + 50 per MB attached

Seed customer types

Tier	Multiplier	Monthly credit	Default rule (unlisted endpoints)
free	1.0	100 cents	none — call rejected with 403
pro	0.5	1000 cents	fixed 8 list → 4 billed
business	0.25	10000 cents	fixed 8 list → 2 billed

Adding a new API call = add it to openapi.yaml, then price it in the admin UI. Adding a customer type = create it in the admin UI. Variable pricing = base per call + metadata size (rounded up to KB) + attachment size (rounded up to MB), then the multiplier.

Quickstart

npm install
npm run dev

The server starts on port 3000. API docs at http://localhost:3000/docs, admin console at /admin, customer portal at /portal.

Deploying

npm ci && npm run build
node dist/index.js        # runs from ANY working directory

All runtime paths (SQLite default, .env, OpenAPI spec, static assets) resolve from the installation root, so the compiled server works under systemd, Docker, or cron regardless of cwd. PORT and ZAPPIER_DB remain environment-overridable.

Environment variables

Variable	Default	Purpose
PORT	3000	HTTP port the server listens on
ZAPPIER_DB	<root>/zappier.db	SQLite database file path
ADMIN_KEY	admin-dev-key	Admin UI / admin API key — set a real secret in production
ADMIN_USER	admin	Admin UI primary login username
DEMO_ADMIN_USER	demo	Admin UI demo login username
DEMO_ADMIN_PASSWORD	$$$Adm1n###	Demo login password — override in production
STRIPE_SECRET_KEY	(none)	Stripe secret key — billing job and portal reloads

Billing

Usage is reported to Stripe by a job (loads STRIPE_SECRET_KEY from .env):

npx ts-node src/jobs/report-usage.ts

The job sums each customer's usage since the first of the current month (UTC), applies the tier's monthly credit, and reports only the delta above what was already reported — re-runs are safe. Idempotency comes from three layers: a billing_reports ledger (cumulative cents per customer per month), an atomic job_locks run guard (1 h TTL), and a deterministic Stripe event identifier (customer:period:billable) that dedupes crash retries. It requires a Stripe meter named zappier.api_cents with Sum aggregation over the value field.

A Kimi cron job ("Zappier billing · report usage to Stripe") runs it daily at 06:17 America/New_York with a completion notification.

Purchase-order customers are invoiced manually from the admin console (Invoices tab); prepaid balances from the customer portal are drawn down automatically at invoice issue. See docs/ACCOUNTING.md.

Zapier app

The companion Zapier integration lives in zapier-app/:

cd zapier-app
npm install
npm test

To deploy it, create a Zapier developer account, run zapier login, then zapier push from the zapier-app/ directory.

Testing

npm test                    # root API/service suite (jest, 165 tests)
cd zapier-app && npm test   # Zapier integration suite (mocha, 4 tests)