Billing, Payments, and Plans

Contributors Usage

Qlty Cloud subscriptions are based on the quantity of active contributors, which are automatically allocated based on usage. With automatic re-assignment, you can focus on your work rather than managing billing.

Summary

  • Active contributors are unique users (or bots) who have logged in, pushed commits, or uploaded code coverage data within the last 30 days.
  • Contributors are uniquely identified by their GitHub login.
  • You can exclude contributors at any time to avoid being billed for them.

How you’re billed

On paid plans, you will need to purchase a subscription quantity based on the number of active contributors in your Qlty Cloud workspace.

Paid

  • Human contributors to private GitHub projects
  • Bots and GitHub apps

Free

  • Contributors to public GitHub projects
Active contributors up to your subscription quantity are automatically allocated on a first-come-first-served basis during each billing cycle. If your subscription quantity is too low, certain contributors may be blocked from accessing Qlty Cloud.

Excluding contibutors

You can exclude contributors from Qlty using the following steps:

  1. From your Dashboard, choose your Workspace.
  2. Click on the Workspace Settings tab.
  3. In the left sidebar, click the Contributors section.
  4. Find the contributor you want to exclude and click the Exclude button on the right side of the row.
  5. Confirm the exclusion in the dialog that appears.

Excluding a contributor will prevent them from being counted as an active contributor for billing purposes. Additionlly:

  • Excluded contributors will not be able to access the Qlty Cloud workspace.
  • Commits pushed by excluded contributors will be ignored.
  • Code coverage data uploaded by excluded contributors will be rejected.

Un-excluding contibutors

You can exclude contributors from Qlty using the following steps:

  1. From your Dashboard, choose your Workspace.
  2. Click on the Workspace Settings tab.
  3. In the left sidebar, click the Contributors section.
  4. Click the Excluded tab at the top right of the page.
  5. Find the contributor you want to un-exclude and click the Rectore button on the right side of the row.
  6. Confirm the exclusion in the dialog that appears.

When you’ll see credit card charges

Your first credit card charge from Qlty will be on the day you purchase a paid plan. After that, you will be charged monthly on the same day of the month as your initial purchase. Annual plans are charged on the day of purchase and then annually thereafter.

When your subscription is upgraded or quantity is increased during a subscription term, you will be charged immediately for the prorated amount of the new subscription rate. If you downgrade or reduce your quantity, you will receive a credit for the unused portion of the subscription term, which will be applied to your next invoice.

Open source contributors

Contributions to public GitHub projects are excluded from the calculation of active contributors, allowing you to engage community developers without increasing your subscription quantity.