> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.orbit.devotel.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Create a billing alert > Creates a billing alert for the organization: a spend or balance threshold, the email and SMS recipients to notify, the action to take when it is hit, and a cooldown. Owner, admin, or billing role required. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /openapi.yaml post /api/v1/billing/alerts/ openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: Devotel CPaaS API description: Orbit by Devotel — Communications Platform as a Service API version: 1.0.0 contact: name: Devotel url: https://devotel.io email: support@devotel.io license: name: Proprietary servers: - url: https://api.orbit.devotel.io description: Production security: - Bearer: [] - ApiKey: [] tags: - name: Messages description: >- Send and manage messages across all channels (SMS, WhatsApp, RCS, Email, Viber, etc.) - name: Fax description: >- List and track fax (MMS/T.38) transmissions on Telnyx-backed fax numbers (sending flows through the Messaging API) - name: Agents description: AI agent creation, configuration, and execution - name: Voice description: Voice calls, IVR, conferencing, and SIP trunking - name: OnCall description: On-call rotations and escalation policy planning for incident alerting - name: Webhooks description: Webhook endpoint management and delivery logs - name: Numbers description: Phone number search, provisioning, and configuration - name: Brand Identity description: >- Unified cross-channel brand trust posture (10DLC, toll-free, WhatsApp, RCS, branded calling, number KYC) - name: Contacts description: Contact management, segmentation, and lifecycle tracking - name: Campaigns description: Marketing campaign orchestration and analytics - name: Flows description: Automation flow builder and execution engine - name: Templates description: Message template management and approval workflows - name: Settings description: Organization, channel, and user preference settings - name: Verify description: OTP generation and verification across channels - name: Push description: Push notification delivery via FCM and APNs - name: Integrations description: Third-party service connections and OAuth management - name: CDP description: >- Customer Data Platform — activation surface (CRM object sync, streaming destinations, ad-audience activation) - name: Files description: >- Server-to-server media upload, listing, retrieval, and deletion (signed-URL backed) - name: Commerce description: >- Omnichannel conversational-commerce — persistent cart + checkout state machine, channel-agnostic hosted pay-by-link, native WhatsApp checkout, and AP2-style agent payment mandates. - name: Sync description: >- Real-time shared-state primitive (Twilio Sync parity) — Documents, Maps, Lists, and ephemeral Streams, with change events relayed over the /api/v1/ws/sync WebSocket gateway - name: Risk description: >- Unified cross-channel Trust & Fraud risk scoring — fuses SMS-pumping, URL-reputation, Verify Fraud Guard, and Voice Biometrics signals into one composite verdict queryable before a send or a call. - name: Orby description: >- In-dashboard Orby operator assistant: streamed assistant turns, conversation threads, product knowledge-base search, and the tool-action approval gate. Available to signed-in operators only (dashboard session auth — API-key requests are rejected). paths: /api/v1/billing/alerts/: post: tags: - Billing summary: Create a billing alert description: >- Creates a billing alert for the organization: a spend or balance threshold, the email and SMS recipients to notify, the action to take when it is hit, and a cooldown. Owner, admin, or billing role required. requestBody: required: true content: application/json: schema: type: object required: - name - threshold_type - threshold_value properties: name: type: string maxLength: 120 threshold_type: type: string enum: - spend_percent - spend_amount - balance_remaining - daily_spend threshold_value: type: number description: >- Percent (0-100) for spend_percent, otherwise an integer number of cents. currency: type: string default: USD description: ISO-4217 currency code. notify_emails: type: array items: type: string format: email description: Up to 20 email recipients. notify_sms_numbers: type: array items: type: string description: >- Up to 20 E.164 SMS recipients. At least one email or SMS recipient is required. action_on_hit: type: string enum: - notify - pause_outbound - block_outbound default: notify cooldown_hours: type: integer default: 24 description: Minimum hours between re-triggers of the same alert. enabled: type: boolean default: true example: name: 80% of monthly budget threshold_type: spend_percent threshold_value: 80 currency: USD notify_emails: - billing@example.com action_on_hit: notify cooldown_hours: 24 enabled: true responses: '201': description: The created billing alert. content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: data: type: object properties: alert: type: object properties: id: type: string organization_id: type: string name: type: string threshold_type: type: string threshold_value: type: number currency: type: string notify_emails: type: array items: type: string notify_sms_numbers: type: array items: type: string action_on_hit: type: string last_triggered_at: type: string format: date-time nullable: true cooldown_hours: type: integer enabled: type: boolean created_by: type: string nullable: true created_at: type: string format: date-time updated_at: type: string format: date-time meta: type: object properties: request_id: type: string timestamp: type: string format: date-time example: data: alert: id: alert_01HZY8ALERT organization_id: org_01HZY8ORG name: 80% of monthly budget threshold_type: spend_percent threshold_value: 80 currency: USD notify_emails: - billing@example.com notify_sms_numbers: [] action_on_hit: notify last_triggered_at: null cooldown_hours: 24 enabled: true created_by: user_01HZY8USER created_at: '2026-08-01T09:00:00.000Z' updated_at: '2026-08-01T09:00:00.000Z' meta: request_id: req_01HZY8EXAMPLE timestamp: '2026-08-02T12:00:00.000Z' components: securitySchemes: Bearer: type: http scheme: bearer bearerFormat: JWT description: Dashboard JWT token from Clerk ApiKey: type: apiKey name: X-API-Key in: header description: Server-to-server API key (dv_live_sk_*) ````