Your billing process is held together with spreadsheets, manual effort, and prayer. Every month, someone manually creates invoices, sends them to customers, tracks who has paid, follows up on late payments, and reconciles everything in your accounting system. Subscription changes require manual proration calculations. Failed payments slip through the cracks until customers complain about service interruptions. Partner payouts are calculated in spreadsheets prone to errors, creating disputes and trust issues. Revenue reporting requires hours of manual work combining data from Stripe, your CRM, and accounting software—and by the time you finish, the numbers are already outdated. The problems compound as you grow: what worked for 50 customers becomes impossible at 500. Manual processes don't scale, and the error rate increases as transaction volume grows. A billing mistake can cost customer relationships, while missed failed payment recovery leaves revenue on the table. Your finance team spends their time on manual reconciliation instead of strategic analysis. Subscription changes that should take seconds require customer service tickets and manual intervention. You can't launch new pricing models or billing features because the technical complexity is overwhelming. Meanwhile, your competitors with automated billing operations move faster, operate more efficiently, and scale without adding headcount—because they solved this problem while you're still fighting it manually every single month.