Auto Top-Up & Smart Credits
The biggest billing upgrade to date. Auto top-up keeps your balance funded automatically so scraping jobs never stall. Smart deposit packs give you volume bonuses the more you deposit. Plus a fully redesigned billing page, low-balance email alerts, and dozens of reliability fixes.
Set a balance threshold and AlterLab automatically tops up your account when you dip below it. Choose your trigger amount, top-up pack, and preferred payment method — it just works in the background. Configure it from the new billing page.
Deposit packs now come with graduated volume bonuses — the more you deposit, the more free credits you receive. Tier badges show your current tier and exactly how much extra you unlock at each level.
The billing page has been rebuilt as a single-page layout with a new tier rail, combined transaction and events history, receipt tracking, and a live RecentActivity feed — all without needing to switch tabs.
New Features
5Auto top-up — never run out of credits
Set a balance threshold and AlterLab automatically tops up your account when you dip below it. Choose your trigger amount, top-up pack, and preferred payment method — it just works in the background. Configure it from the new billing page.
Smart deposit packs with volume bonuses
Deposit packs now come with graduated volume bonuses — the more you deposit, the more free credits you receive. Tier badges show your current tier and exactly how much extra you unlock at each level.
Redesigned billing page
The billing page has been rebuilt as a single-page layout with a new tier rail, combined transaction and events history, receipt tracking, and a live RecentActivity feed — all without needing to switch tabs.
Low-balance email alerts
Get an email notification before your balance hits zero. Alerts fire at configurable thresholds so you can top up before any scraping jobs are affected.
Smart payment method management
The platform now automatically promotes your oldest payment method as default when no default is set, and keeps auto-recharge synced when you change or remove payment methods.
Improvements
4Billing scope on all API keys
All API keys now include the billing scope by default. Existing keys have been backfilled. This unlocks balance and auto-recharge endpoints for programmatic billing management.
Audit log for auto-recharge events
Auto-recharge enable, disable, and delete actions are now recorded in the billing audit log. Recharge attempts track the full lifecycle — pending, success, decline, and idempotent skips.
Volume bonus grants in transaction history
Volume bonus credits granted at deposit time now appear as a separate line in your transaction history and on the deposit success page, so you can always see exactly what you received.
General bug fixes and improvements
Plus 30+ additional fixes across billing, accessibility, rate limiting, and dashboard reliability.
Bug Fixes
2Amazon Australia timeout alignment
Scraping timeouts for amazon.com.au were lower than other Amazon locale configs, causing more frequent failures on large product pages. Now aligned with amazon.com, .co.uk, and .de.
Auto-recharge reliability hardening
Fixed a suite of edge cases: atomic single-UPDATE for backoff state, NULL sentinel for pending recharge rows, partial unique index on payment intent IDs to prevent duplicate audit rows, and proper asyncio.to_thread wrapping for Stripe calls.
Security
1Auth cookies blocked from learned cookie storage
The Penetrator anti-bot tier's learned cookie storage now filters out authentication and session cookies. This prevents accidental credential leakage across domains in multi-tenant environments.