How do you handle billing when the product is used by teams but one person pays?

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I’ve been thinking about a billing design question that seems simple at first, but gets messy pretty quickly in a team product. If the product is used inside a shared workspace, do you attach the subscription to: * the individual user who started checkout * or the workspace itself Workspace-based billing feels more natural for team products, especially when only one owner should manage billing and plan changes for everyone else. But it also creates a bunch of edge cases: * how do you prevent duplicate active subscriptions on the same workspace * how do you handle upgrades cleanly * what do you do when someone tries to buy the same plan twice * where do you enforce usage limits so they can’t be bypassed The more I look at it, the more it feels like billing is really a product model question before it’s a Stripe question. Curious how other SaaS builders approach this.