What is billing event tracking in Node.js

Tracking billing events in your Node.js app helps you monitor payments, subscriptions, and refunds in real time. For example, you can log when a customer’s payment succeeds and alert your team on failures.

Tracking billing events with Operational

Operational is an open-source event tracking tool. You can use it to ingest and view billing events from your app in a single dashboard.

Setting up Operational

1. Go to the signup page at app.operational.co and create an account.
2. In your dashboard, copy your API key.
3. Install the SDK in your project: npm install @operational.co/sdk.
4. Keep your API key handy for the code examples below.

Code examples

The following snippets show how to track different billing events in Node.js using Operational.

import Operational from "@operational.co/sdk";
const ops = new Operational("API_KEY");

const payload = {
  "name": "subscription created",
  "avatar": "💳",
  "content": "New subscription for John Smith: Pro Plan."
};

await ops.events.ingest(payload);

This example tracks a new subscription event.

import Operational from "@operational.co/sdk";
const ops = new Operational("API_KEY");

const payload = {
  "name": "payment successful",
  "avatar": "✅",
  "content": "Payment of $20.00 received from Jane Doe."
};

await ops.events.ingest(payload);

This example logs a successful payment.

import Operational from "@operational.co/sdk";
const ops = new Operational("API_KEY");

const payload = {
  "name": "refund processed",
  "avatar": "↩️",
  "content": "Refund of $20.00 issued to Jane Doe."
};

await ops.events.ingest(payload);

This example records a refund event.

Conclusion

Tracking billing events with Operational can save you time and hassle when managing payments and subscriptions. It offers a simple API and real-time dashboard.

Learn more on the Operational website: https://operational.co
Try the playground to copy and test snippets: https://operational.co/playground