There are a few configuration and billing items that don't really belong in any other video, so we're gonna take a look at them together here. First, let's get started with billing. When we first signed up for Forge, we chose a plan and provided our payment information, but we haven't actually taken a close look at what each plan provides. So let's head over to the pricing page. So as you can see, we have three plans here,

So let's head over to the pricing page. So as you can see, we have three plans here, hobby, growth and Business. All three of them offer unlimited layer of LVPS servers and you get discounts on them on the higher plans. If you want external servers, that means not layer of LVPS servers. Hobby limits you to one. And so that's a constraint that's worth knowing about. Additionally, if you scroll down a little bit,

And so that's a constraint that's worth knowing about. Additionally, if you scroll down a little bit, you can see four other differences here. The support is different. So hobby gets community support where you have standard and advanced support on these other plans, which I think means support technicians and extra attention from support technicians. And then also both of the first two plans do not give you access

And then also both of the first two plans do not give you access to these shared tooling database backups or server monitoring. So if you want teams, you want roles, you want backups, you want monitoring, you're gonna have to go for the business plan. Otherwise, probably the most common one that folks are gonna reach for is that growth plan. So once you're signed up for a paid account, you can go

that folks are gonna reach for is that growth plan. So once you're signed up for a paid account, you can go to your billing settings and in here you can change your plan. You can change your payment information, you can even see all of your invoices. I'm gonna skip past my mailing address right here. And you can see that you can manage your subscription through the Stripe portal, add notes about your billing information

through the Stripe portal, add notes about your billing information and see a history of all of your invoices as PDFs. Also, if you have one or more layer of LVPS servers, you can come over to usage and you can see your usage so far during the current period and also your predictive cost during this period. And you can do that same thing for previous periods. And there's also a quick link over to the invoices page we've already looked at.

And there's also a quick link over to the invoices page we've already looked at. There's another miscellaneous concept in Forge called organizations. By default, when you sign up for a new account, you're getting an organization with your same name and you can invite people to that organization. But if you wanna create a new organization that has its own sites and servers and everything you can, so you can say maybe Tighten

that has its own sites and servers and everything you can, so you can say maybe Tighten and Tighten now will get its own servers, its own sites, its own server providers, everything. And you can share that with people without giving them access to your own personal account. We're gonna not actually set this up right now, but it basically gives you everything you want. So you can have a personal and a business, or you can have one for each of your businesses

So you can have a personal and a business, or you can have one for each of your businesses or whatever else you want. So for now, we're just gonna cancel that organization. And let's go take a look at another organizational concept, which is tags, notes and icons and colors. So if you like me, have a lot of servers, a lot of sites, a lot of teams and everything, it can be beneficial to make it easier to tell them apart. So there's this idea where you open up a server, you go

to make it easier to tell them apart. So there's this idea where you open up a server, you go to settings, and you can organize them with tags, color notes, and for some other things, you can also upload custom images. So tags are universal across the site. So if I say a tag for Tighten, then later I can apply that same tag to other things. I can choose a color and I can add a note. This is my note. Now. The note only shows up in the setting page.

I can choose a color and I can add a note. This is my note. Now. The note only shows up in the setting page. It's not gonna show up anywhere else. The tags only show up here and on the show page for the server. And also any list that shows the servers, but also it's gonna show up in the API, which I imagine might be helpful for some folks. Now this color right here, you can see anytime you see organ trail production in a list, you're now gonna see

Now this color right here, you can see anytime you see organ trail production in a list, you're now gonna see that little green icon next to it. So if we do go to a list of all our servers, we've now got the green badge and then we also have that tag for Tighten there. Now we can do similar settings on a site. So if we go to the site, we have tags, color and an avatar. So no notes, but we do have these other ones. So we can choose a red badge, we can choose

So no notes, but we do have these other ones. So we can choose a red badge, we can choose that same Tighten tag and maybe we can add another tag called Fun. And then we can upload a custom image. Let's save. And now anywhere we see the site, we're gonna see that custom image with the color. We're not gonna see the tags. I get the sense that they're still kind of fleshing out everything the tags are gonna do here,

I get the sense that they're still kind of fleshing out everything the tags are gonna do here, but it will also show up in the API here. We can do the same on a team. If we go to a specific team that we have, we can choose a custom image for that team and it'll show up anywhere we see that team. And there's one last miscellaneous setting we have not gotten to, which is integrations. The integrations that it provides here are Envoyer and sent,

gotten to, which is integrations. The integrations that it provides here are Envoyer and sent, and Envoyer is Laravel zero downtime deploy tool. And you kind of probably have noticed that we already have zero downtime, deploy and Forge, but Envoy does it across multiple servers in a way Forge does not. It's also a little bit more configurable, especially across multiple users. So Envoyer is sort

especially across multiple users. So Envoyer is sort of like superpowered zero downtime deployment. The Envoy integration as it exists right now is not super helpful. If you're an Envoyer user, just do what you always have, create a project on Envoy, attach it to your Forge server, you're good to go. If you did want to connect it here, you'd have to get an API key.

If you did want to connect it here, you'd have to get an API key. Um, but it's not actually as far as I know, using any of these. Now, it may use deployments create, when you hit the Deploy button, it's gonna trigger deploy an Envoy, but most of the work still has to happen in Envoy. You, you can learn more about this in their docs with Sentry.

You, you can learn more about this in their docs with Sentry. If you use Sentry as your bug tracking tool, you can make it easier to attach any of your Forge sites directly to a Sentry project. And finally, you don't have to press it there, but if you go to any of your individual sites, you will see a Connect Nightwatch button. So Nightwatch is also an integration, but it does not require that level of connection.

So Nightwatch is also an integration, but it does not require that level of connection. So if I connect Nightwatch, it's gonna tell me to require Nightwatch in the project, grab my token from Nightwatch and then paste it here and it will actually handle updating the ENV for you.