Billing & Plans
How do I purchase additional email lookups, AI credits or texting credits in-app?
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you can now purchase email look ups, ai credits and texting credits from within ashby if you are a billing admin on your ashby account overview if you’d like to purchase additional email lookups, navigate to admin > sourcing > email lookups when viewing your remaining lookups, click purchase additional to start the process of buying more lookups alternatively, you can also navigate directly to admin > organization settings > billing to purchase lookups, ai credits and texting credits under the subscriptions tab you can either purchase additional email lookups as a one off or an additional amount recurring each month ai and texting credits can only be purchased as a recurring additional amount in app currently one off email lookups you can purchase additional email lookups in batches of 300 the additional lookups will expire after 30 days to make a one off purchase, select the one off option in the purchase additional email lookups section one off purchases must be paid for immediately, and, as such, require that you have a payment method on file if there is no payment method, you will be prompted to add one before you can proceed once you click add a payment method , you be taken to stripe to either add in your payment card details or link to an account once your payment details have been added, you can then proceed to determine the number of lookups you’d like to process click purchase for… , then confirm to complete your purchase please allow up to ten seconds for your purchase to be completed and for your email lookups to be updated in the current email lookups section you will receive an invoice via email confirming the purchase recurring lookups if you’d like to have these additional lookups added each month, then select the recurring option within the purchase additional email lookups section you will then be able to determine the number of email lookups you’d like to purchase we can only support in app purchases of recurring email lookups that expire monthly if you would like to set up email lookups that expire annually, please reach out to contracts\@ashbyhq com email lookups can be purchased in batches of 300 but with recurring lookups, you will also be shown a preview of the recurring costs in the example pictured, the account is on an annual plan there are two costs associated with recurring lookups firstly, the recurring cost that'll be attached to future invoices this takes the monthly cost of the email lookups and scales it to the customers billing cycle in this example, $100/month on an annual cycle means they're adding $1,200 to the subscription the second cost is an immediate prorated charge for email lookups for the rest of the current billing cycle the $1,200 for the additional email lookups is multiplied by the fraction of the current billing cycle that's remaining it is prorated to the day, so in the above example where the user is one day into the billing cycle, we'll charge $1200 multiplied by (364/365 days), which comes out to be $1,196 71 after clicking purchase , you can then click confirm to complete the transaction you will receive an invoice via email confirming the purchase purchasing additional ai credits for more information on how ai credits are used, check out docid 0msgwzhfexbtwoagfyrar and docid 7q8kj16ibgcp9zsjx86xm more information on adding ai credits can be found below in the ai credits section of billing, both the credits used and credits remaining will be listed click add more to start the process of purchasing more credits using the number of ai credits dropdown, please select the number of additional ai credits you’d like to add to your account if you are on the plus or enterprise plans, you can purchase ai credits in increments of 5000 if you are on the monthly foundations plan, you can buy ai credits in 1000 credit increments the cost added to future invoices and the immediate charge will be listed underneath the number of ai credits field for you to review click purchase to confirm the purchase for reference, the account pictured is on a monthly plan, so a recurring purchase of an additional 5000 credits a month would add $500 to each monthly invoice moving forward purchasing additional texting credits for more on candidate texting, please check out docid\ eqo rlp7jpwh3ykaonv84 in the texting credits section of billing, both the credits used and credits remaining will be listed click add more to start the process of purchasing more credits you can purchase texting credits in increments of 1000 using the number of texting credits dropdown, please select the number of additional ai credits you’d like to add to your account the cost added to future invoices and the immediate charge will be listed underneath the number of texting credits field for you to review click purchase to confirm the purchase for reference, the account pictured is on a monthly plan, so a recurring purchase of an additional 1000 credits a month would add $90 to each monthly invoice moving forward faq i’ve purchased email lookups by mistake/i’ve purchased more email lookups than i intended to what should i do? please reach out to mailto\ support\@ashbyhq com for assistance with this h ow are email lookups deducted? is it per email or per lookup? credits are used per lookup for example, if you try to check the same candidate three times, it will use 3 credits if emails are successfully returned each time, but if you check once and we return 2 emails in that one lookup attempt, we charge you one credit