Plans, billing, and referrals

Heard Chef applies limits from your effective plan. If you belong to a paid team, the owner manages its subscription and members inherit the eligible team access.

Free

Free is designed for trying the complete workflow with controlled monthly limits. It currently includes up to 10 new recipes per month, one project total, one menu per month, limited sourcing calls, one AI recipe per generation request, and Heard Chef branding on PDFs.

Saved referral recipe credits can extend the recipe allowance.

Pro

Pro is for one chef and removes current recipe, project, menu, and sourcing limits. It also enables full multi-recipe import and clean PDF export.

Brigade

Brigade includes Pro capabilities plus team access, four included seats, optional extra seats, team permissions, and team-logo PDF branding.

Manage billing

The owner can open Settings → Plan to choose monthly/yearly billing, change plan, adjust seats, or open the Stripe Customer Portal. The currency charged at checkout follows the Stripe price and billing address; a display estimate can differ from the final checkout currency.

If payment becomes past due, update the payment method in the portal. Members may temporarily see Free limits while the team billing state is inactive.

Referral rewards

From Settings → Referrals, an eligible owner can:

• invite a new chef and earn recipe credits after qualification;
• refer a business and earn a one-time discount on a future eligible renewal;
• share a Showcase Card natively and, when eligible, earn sourcing-call bonuses.

Self-referrals, existing accounts, revoked links, copied/downloaded Showcase images, and other ineligible events do not grant rewards. The history page shows pending, qualified, scheduled, applied, capped, and ineligible states.

Prices and offers can change; use the plan screen and Stripe Checkout as the final billing source.