A zero-cost, highly flexible stack leveraging open-source billing and serverless infrastructure to validate your payment platform.
You need to build a complex payment and billing platform with a team of 5, but you have no existing infrastructure and a strict focus on initial cost-efficiency and security.
You will have a live environment where you can process billing logic, store financial records in a secure PostgreSQL database, and track development tasks—all without any monthly software spend.
Handles metering and usage-based billing logic for the payment platform.
Securely stores financial records and manages user authentication.
Deploys and hosts the platform's frontend and serverless functions.
Detects and alerts on software errors and potential fraud patterns.
Centralizes documentation, compliance logs, and internal financial reporting.
Native integration triggers a new deployment on every code push.
Vercel has a dedicated Supabase integration for environment variable syncing.
This stack focuses on minimizing initial overhead by using the free and open-source tiers of industry-leading tools. It provides the core components for a payment platform: a usage-based billing engine, a secure database, and automated deployment pipelines.
