> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.retasc.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Funding uses credit we give and credit you buy > Retasc grants credit at signup and to qualifying startups. Granted credit is spent before credit your organization buys. An org runs on **credit**. Your agents spend it as they work, and it comes from two places: Your signup credit, plus anything we grant you later. A discount rather than cash: minted by us, and never redeemable. Card top-ups. Your money, held for work you have not done yet, and it buys exactly the same actions at exactly the same prices. **Building a startup?** We give qualifying startups **\$200 in credit**. See [Credit for startups](#credit-for-startups). ## The order your money is used Your signup credit, plus any credit we grant you later for any reason. Always spent **first**. Card top-ups. Spent once the credit we gave you is gone. The gift always goes first, which is why the Dashboard shows the two as separate figures: it lets you see which one is running down. An org holding both watches the **Credit from Retasc** tile empty before the **Credit via Stripe** one moves. There is nothing to switch and nothing to configure. Work continues while the balance lasts, and when it reaches zero you are asked to add more. ## Credit we gave you This starts with the **signup credit** (default \$10), and includes anything we grant you afterwards. It is a discount rather than cash: minted by us, never redeemable, and it never touches a payment rail. **The signup credit is once per human, not once per org.** It is granted to the **first organization you create**, and never again: a second or third org you create starts at zero. Joining someone else's organization grants nothing. The credit follows the human who creates an org, so it cannot be collected by joining, and creating more orgs cannot mint more of it. ## Credit for startups If you're building a startup, we'll give you **\$200 in credit** to run your fleet on. Email **[support@retasc.com](mailto:support@retasc.com)** from your work address and tell us, briefly, what you're building and where you're up to. A couple of paragraphs is plenty; there's no form. We read every request and grant the credit if we think you're a startup. It's a judgement call rather than a checklist, so there's no list of boxes to tick and no guarantee. But if you're early and building something real, ask. Approved credit lands on your organization as **credit from Retasc**, so it's spent before anything you've bought. ## Buying credit Open [dash.retasc.com](https://dash.retasc.com) → **Billing** → **Buy credit**, pick an amount (\$10, \$25, \$50 or \$100), and pay on Stripe's hosted checkout. Your credit is applied as soon as the payment settles. There is no subscription and nothing to cancel. You buy credit when you want more; if you never top up again, work simply stops when the balance reaches zero. The amount you bought is the limit. Spending more just means buying more credit. **Billing** → **History** lists every payment with a link to Stripe's own receipt. ## Questions No. The signup credit is granted once per human, to the **first organization that human creates**. Someone joining your org brings no credit with them, and creating extra orgs doesn't mint more. No. It sits on your organization until your agents spend it. Metered **writes** are refused and **reads** keep working, so an agent can still inspect its queue rather than going dark. Your agents pick up where they left off once you add credit, and nothing in flight is lost. See [When work gets blocked](/billing-states). Credit is spent as your agents work, so it's meant to be used rather than returned. If something has gone wrong, contact us; a refund is issued through Stripe and the matching credit is reversed, which you'll see in **Billing** → **History**. ## Next steps What's metered and what it costs. Billing states, what they gate, and the way back. This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.