When I try to add Heroku SendGrid Addon - Starter Plan, I accidentally click "Add SendGrid Platinum Plan Addon" button. I didn't get any confirmation and add-on is added to my application automatically. I refresh my browser immediately and removed the Heroku app.
Will I be charged monthly fee for SendGrid Platinum plan? Since I deleted my application, I could not check whether SendGrid account for that old application is still active or not.
If anything you will probably be up for a few cents depending on how long you ran the addon for, but you will not be charged the full fee.
Heroku state the following within their documentation:
Databases and add-ons are prorated to the second based on their applicable monthly fee.
which means that you are only charged for the time that is used. For example, if you use it for 10% of the month, you are up for ~$40.
Source: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/usage-and-billing
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I'm trying to add some services on Heroku, but it is failing because I don't have an "established payment history". We do have a credit card set up, but apparently that is not enough?
The heroku docs, as far as I can tell never define what is required to establish a payment history. I went ahead and created a paid dyno yesterday to see if that would do it, but that still hasn't done the trick.
Do I have to wait a month until Heroku bills me?
Apparently I'm not the only confused person: Heroku - why can't I provision higher tier ClearDB (verification problem?)?
So they're refusing my money because I haven't paid them money before? I don't understand...
I had to contact Heroku support. They said in a support ticket what they don't say on their documentation. Basically you have to have paid some money, and that can be through previous services, or through a prepayment:
This is what they said:
Currently an established payment history with Heroku would consist of $30 or more in total spend across any 3 of the previous 6 months. In this case we would be able to perform a prepayment; which once completed would allow your account to access these new resources without having had $30 or more in spend from previous months.
I am happy to set up this prepayment for you so you can set up this addon. I would just need the following:
AMOUNT: Total amount of pre-payment in USD.
LAST MONTH: Last month that the pre-payment should be applied to (include year, can be estimated).
ACCOUNT: Team name or personal account email.
CARD: Last four digits of card
I deployed 5 very simple React apps on Heroku.
Today, when I wanted to add a 6th one, Heroku came up with the error message:
You've reached the limit of 5 apps for unverified accounts. Delete
some apps or add a credit card to verify your account.
Account Verification Required Your account must be verified to create
this app. Please add payment information to verify your account.
For verification Heroku basically needs me to give them my payment details.
Doe's it mean that from the 6th app, Heroku is going to charge me?
Heroku will only charge you for paid services. If you continue to use only free dynos and free add-ons you shouldn't be charged.
Note that you might initially see some holds on your card:
Every bank works differently, and some of them require a one dollar hold by the verifier before a card can be confirmed. After a few business days the hold will be released and your card will be verified if successful.
If you see multiple instances of a $1.00 charge, it may be because the card information was submitted multiple times. The duplicate holds will also be released and returned to your account after a few business days.
A 'Free' tier Heroku account allows up to 5 apps. How many apps does a 'Hobby' plan allow for?
I have looked on the Heroku general pricing page, detailed pricing page, and on a few related pages e.g. 'Choosing the Right Heroku Postgres Plan', but I can't see any explicit mention of how many apps I can deploy
Could it be that a "Dyno" is in fact another word for an app? And therefore there is no limit on the 'Hobby' tier, but I must pay $7/app/month?
In case it's useful to someone else the answer is:
"there is a soft limit of 100 apps per (Hobby tier) account".
The quote comes from my email to Heroku support
Although the question was on the Hobby plan, there is an update now that lets you have more than 5 apps for the Free plan (which is one reason one might have asked this question).
If you verify the account by adding a credit card on file, you can have up to 100 apps on the (verified) free plan, and still the 5 app limit for unverified.
Source (Heroku link)
According to the new rules, one can at most 5 apps if the account is not verified (no credit card details). If you add your credit card, you can have as many as 100 free apps as your account is now verified.
If we talk about free dynos, it's 550 for un-verified accounts and an additional 450 for verified accounts.
Reference: https://www.heroku.com/free
I’m using Rails 4.2.7. I want to host my app with Heroku so I first decided to create the free hobby account to see how everything works. I would like to create a task that runs every day and so was reading about Heroku’s scheduler app. However, when I try and add the add-on I get the error
$ heroku addons:create scheduler:standard
Creating scheduler:standard on ⬢ myproject... !
▸ Please verify your account to install this add-on plan (please enter a credit card) For more information, see https://devcenter.heroku.com/categories/billing Verify now at
▸ https://heroku.com/verify
I’m not ready to shell out any money yet. How do I create a scheduled task or is Heroku not a good hosting service for this, and if not, where else should I go?
You must verify your account to use add-ons (some exceptions are there, like Heroku Postgres and Heroku Connect add-ons).
You don't need to spend any money to verify your account. You need to have a valid credit card. Heroku will try to verify the credit card and on successful verification, your account will be verified. You can read more information about accepted credit cards and detailed verification procedure here.
Quoting from the link mentioned above,
Heroku needs to be able to reliably identify and contact our users in the event of an issue. We have found that having a credit card on file provides the most reliable way of obtaining verified contact information. Account verification also helps us with abuse prevention.
You must verify your account if you, or collaborators of your app, want to:
Add any add-on to the app, even if the add-on is free. The only exceptions to this are the free plans for the Heroku Postgres and Heroku Connect add-ons, which can be added without verification.
If you do not have a credit or debit card (or do not have one that we are able to accept), you can still use the parts of Heroku that do not require account validation.
So currently, no other option is available to verify your account except using your credit card.
I use openshift online (1X CPU-512MB memory-1GB storage, 3 free gear) from RedHat but recently, they stopped new registration as they are building Openshift Online (NEXT GEN). You can apply for developer preview and use it for 30 days but the waitlist is too long. During Developer Preview period, OpenShift Online (Next Gen) is free (2 GiB memory, 4 CPU cores, and 2 x 1 GiB persistent volumes, 1 project).
Is it possible to change ownership of a Heroku add-on? If so, how can we do that? In fact, I want to move an add-on from one Heroku account to another.
Let me elaborate my scenario a bit more to be clear.
I created an add-on with my test provider acount. Is there any way that I can delete the add-on from my test account and create the add-on with the same name with my official provider account? As a matter of fact, there is nothing about deleting the add-on or moving it under a different account in the Provider's documentation.
A Google search lead me to this support page, which says
This currently depends on whether or not the app has any paid resources associated with it.
For an app with no paid resources, you can use "heroku sharing:transfer" from the command line to transfer the app to a new owner.
For an app with paid resources, you have two options.
1) Remove all paid resources, transfer the app like a free app, then have the new owner re-add the paid resources.
2) Both the old and new owners should file a support tickets at http://support.heroku.com authorizing the transfer and with the new owner accepting charges for the app.
Also check out the Transferring apps and Collaborating with Others articles on Heroku's Dev Centre.
Since you're talking about ownership of add-ons as an add-on provider and not just ownership of your heroku app, I would say you should probably contact the heroku add-on support team via email. See this page here for an email address. Hopefully as an add-on provider if you submit a help ticket they'll be able to help you as well.