Troubleshooting

A feature is locked on my plan

A locked control is a plan gate. Hitting 25, 100, 250, or 500 active invoices is a capacity ceiling, not a missing feature — and a pause still occupies a space.

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Permission: Anyone can read Billing and Compare plans. Changing plan, buying a capacity pack, or cancelling is Admin only. PayBlah does not auto-upgrade.

Open Billing, or Settings → sidebar View plan → pane Plan & billingCompare plans. Admins also see Change Plan.

Feature locks (not the invoice meter)

  • Extra seats / invites — Starter is 1 seat. Growth and above (including Enterprise) unlock multi-user invites from Settings → Team.
  • Promises and Record settlement — Pro and above.
  • Payment plans (instalments) — Pro (up to 3) and Business (up to 12), when Settings → Payment plans & bundles allows them.
  • Portal / payment links — Compare plans and catalogue copy still say Growth+. The invoice page can still mint a Payment link without a plan-rank check. Card checkout still needs a usable tenant Stripe connection. That mismatch is a product contradiction — do not treat “Starter has no portal” or “every Starter link works” as settled.
  • Text messaging — not a self-serve unlock. SMS is gated estate-wide. See Text messaging coming later.

Do not look for “approval routing” as a Business add-on. Firm and Final always wait for a person on every plan. Who must approve is not a launched feature.

Never locked (safety)

Stop on recorded payment, untriaged-reply hold, dispute hold, kill switch, Firm/Final approval, carrier SMS STOP when texts exist, and the sent log are not sold as upgrades. If those appear missing, treat it as a product issue — not something you pay to unlock.

Active invoice capacity

The enforced limit is concurrent active invoices, not an overdue money “balance cap” and not a chase-count of messages. Invoice value is unlimited on every named plan.

  • Starter 25
  • Growth 100
  • Pro 250
  • Business 500
  • Enterprise — unlimited / custom

These states keep a space until the invoice closes: chasing, paused (including a manual pause), promised, disputed, and part-paid. Waiting to Start does not consume a space. Paid, settled, written down, or archived invoices free a space.

When the book is full, extra eligible invoices wait. In-flight work is not killed. Older balance-cap figures are leftover metadata only — do not use them as a plan limit. Checkout may still print a leftover “Balance chased” line; that is not the enforced meter.

What to do

  1. Read Active invoice spaces: N of L on Billing or Plan & billing.
  2. If you need a feature on a higher tier, an Admin uses Compare plansChoose {name}. Paid mid-term upgrades may currently refuse with Paid mid-term upgrades are temporarily unavailable — nothing is taken.
  3. If you only need more spaces on a USD paid account, use Capacity packsAdd pack (+25 / $19, +100 / $49, +250 / $99, max two). EUR and GBP packs are not sold.
  4. Close or finish paused / promised / disputed / part-paid invoices if they are occupying spaces you thought were free.

Expected result

A feature lock stays until the plan (or setting) includes it. A full capacity meter shows Waiting to Start on extra invoices, not a failed upgrade.

If something looks wrong

  • You paused invoices expecting the meter to drop — it will not. Resume or close them, or raise capacity.
  • You are not an Admin — you can read Compare plans but cannot Change Plan.
  • Then contact Support with subject Billing & my plan.

Last reviewed 13 August 2026. PayBlah is accounts-receivable automation software. You remain the creditor. Confirm local rules with your own advisor for your territory (US, UK, Ireland, or Australia).