# The Dodo Digest: Smarter Credits, New Cookbooks & Fresh Features

> Explore smarter customer credits, new Wallet APIs, billing cookbooks, and key v1.53.2 changelog improvements in this Dodo Digest.
- **Author**: Rishabh Goel
- **Published**: 2025-09-22
- **Category**: Newsletter
- **URL**: https://dodopayments.com/blogs/newsletter-september22

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Hello from Dodo Payments,

We've been shipping a lot behind the scenes at Dodo Payments. This edition of the Digest brings you the latest features, resources, and community updates to help you monetise smarter and faster.

Here's a short gist of what's been up:

**Feature Spotlight: Customer Credits**

A smarter way to **reward, refund, or pre-fund** without breaking your billing flow.

Credits now automatically apply to subscription invoices, letting you:

- Incentivise loyalty with promos

- Compensate for service interruptions

- Offer prepaid balances seamlessly

And with our new **Wallet APIs**, you can add or remove credits programmatically, trigger them from referrals, upgrades, or any workflow.

**New Resource: Cookbooks**

We're breaking down how top products handle billing and showing you how to build those patterns with **Dodo Payments**.

Think trials, seats, usage, credits, retention flows, promos, lifecycle emails.

Our goal: help you ship billing that grows MRR.

First up: **Cookbook #1 - Build an AI Image Generator with pay-per-use billing.** [Check it out here](https://x.com/dodopayments/status/1967944481845751977).

**Open Source: Billing SDK**

Our **Billing SDK** has been live for a while with many contributions and PRs already merged.

You can contribute too: [billingsdk.com](https://billingsdk.com/)

**Team Update**

We're heading out on a short offsite to recharge in nature.

Fresh perspectives help us keep building the best platform for you to monetise your digital products.

### Changelog - v1.53.2

- **Customer details in Get Refund API**

The refund retrieval endpoint now returns associated customer information, streamlining reconciliation and support workflows.

- **Increased meter limit to 50**

You can now create up to 50 meters per account, enabling more granular usage tracking across your products and features.

- **Product and customer context in Activate License Key API**

License activation responses now include detailed product and customer context, improving entitlement checks and downstream integrations.

- **Subscriptions can be downgraded to $0**

You can now downgrade subscriptions to free or $0 plans, making it easier to support trials, community tiers, and sponsorships.

Check out the complete Documentation here: https://docs.dodopayments.com/changelog/v1.53.2

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That's it for this edition.

See you in two weeks with more updates.

Until next time,

Rishabh Goel

Co-Founder & CEO

Dodo Payments
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