Architecture
Billing vs Entitlements: Why Leading Teams Unify Them
By the Orvlin team · · 7 min read
What entitlements are
Entitlements are the rules for what a customer can use: which features, how many seats, what usage limits and how many credits.
Why two tools drift
When billing and entitlements are separate products, every plan exists twice. A sales-negotiated limit can be set in one and forgotten in the other, so customers get access they don't pay for, or pay for access they can't use.
What a unified engine changes
One catalog defines both price and access. The SDK checks access from a local cache in milliseconds, and the same usage data flows to the invoice. Orvlin is built this way.
Frequently asked questions
- Do I need a separate entitlements tool?
- Not if your billing platform manages entitlements natively. Orvlin does both from one engine.
- Do entitlement checks slow my app?
- They shouldn't. Orvlin's SDK answers from a local cache in milliseconds.