diff --git a/apps/api/src/controllers/v0/scrape.ts b/apps/api/src/controllers/v0/scrape.ts
index 40df5021..bc91da18 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/controllers/v0/scrape.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/controllers/v0/scrape.ts
@@ -244,14 +244,10 @@ export async function scrapeController(req: Request, res: Response) {
       }
       if (creditsToBeBilled > 0) {
         // billing for doc done on queue end, bill only for llm extraction
-        const billingResult = await billTeam(team_id, creditsToBeBilled);
-        if (!billingResult.success) {
-          return res.status(402).json({
-            success: false,
-            error:
-              "Failed to bill team. Insufficient credits or subscription not found.",
-          });
-        }
+        billTeam(team_id, creditsToBeBilled).catch(error => {
+          Logger.error(`Failed to bill team ${team_id} for ${creditsToBeBilled} credits: ${error}`);
+          // Optionally, you could notify an admin or add to a retry queue here
+        });
       }
     }
     
diff --git a/apps/api/src/controllers/v0/search.ts b/apps/api/src/controllers/v0/search.ts
index 825abbe1..5ef2b767 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/controllers/v0/search.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/controllers/v0/search.ts
@@ -54,18 +54,10 @@ export async function searchHelper(
   
 
   if (justSearch) {
-    const billingResult = await billTeam(
-      team_id,
-      res.length
-    );
-    if (!billingResult.success) {
-      return {
-        success: false,
-        error:
-          "Failed to bill team. Insufficient credits or subscription not found.",
-        returnCode: 402,
-      };
-    }
+    billTeam(team_id, res.length).catch(error => {
+      Logger.error(`Failed to bill team ${team_id} for ${res.length} credits: ${error}`);
+      // Optionally, you could notify an admin or add to a retry queue here
+    });
     return { success: true, data: res, returnCode: 200 };
   }
 
diff --git a/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/map.ts b/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/map.ts
index 21e91840..4c94f041 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/map.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/map.ts
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import { fireEngineMap } from "../../search/fireEngine";
 import { billTeam } from "../../services/billing/credit_billing";
 import { logJob } from "../../services/logging/log_job";
 import { performCosineSimilarity } from "../../lib/map-cosine";
+import { Logger } from "../../lib/logger";
 
 configDotenv();
 
@@ -100,7 +101,10 @@ export async function mapController(
   // remove duplicates that could be due to http/https or www
   links = removeDuplicateUrls(links);
 
-  await billTeam(req.auth.team_id, 1);
+  billTeam(req.auth.team_id, 1).catch(error => {
+    Logger.error(`Failed to bill team ${req.auth.team_id} for 1 credit: ${error}`);
+    // Optionally, you could notify an admin or add to a retry queue here
+  });
 
   const endTime = new Date().getTime();
   const timeTakenInSeconds = (endTime - startTime) / 1000;
diff --git a/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/scrape.ts b/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/scrape.ts
index 9fba1a45..0835cc2a 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/scrape.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/scrape.ts
@@ -106,14 +106,10 @@ export async function scrapeController(
     creditsToBeBilled = 50;
   }
 
-  const billingResult = await billTeam(req.auth.team_id, creditsToBeBilled);
-  if (!billingResult.success) {
-    return res.status(402).json({
-      success: false,
-      error:
-        "Failed to bill team. Insufficient credits or subscription not found.",
-    });
-  }
+  billTeam(req.auth.team_id, creditsToBeBilled).catch(error => {
+    Logger.error(`Failed to bill team ${req.auth.team_id} for ${creditsToBeBilled} credits: ${error}`);
+    // Optionally, you could notify an admin or add to a retry queue here
+  });
 
   if (!pageOptions || !pageOptions.includeRawHtml) {
     if (doc && doc.rawHtml) {
diff --git a/apps/api/src/main/runWebScraper.ts b/apps/api/src/main/runWebScraper.ts
index 2268f9ed..cd199fa1 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/main/runWebScraper.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/main/runWebScraper.ts
@@ -118,15 +118,10 @@ export async function runWebScraper({
       : docs;
 
     if(is_scrape === false) {
-      const billingResult = await billTeam(team_id, filteredDocs.length);
-      if (!billingResult.success) {
-        // throw new Error("Failed to bill team, no subscription was found");
-        return {
-          success: false,
-          message: "Failed to bill team, no subscription was found",
-          docs: [],
-        };
-      }
+      billTeam(team_id, filteredDocs.length).catch(error => {
+        Logger.error(`Failed to bill team ${team_id} for ${filteredDocs.length} credits: ${error}`);
+        // Optionally, you could notify an admin or add to a retry queue here
+      });
     }
 
     
diff --git a/apps/api/src/services/billing/credit_billing.ts b/apps/api/src/services/billing/credit_billing.ts
index 2cfea85a..ab00eab9 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/services/billing/credit_billing.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/services/billing/credit_billing.ts
@@ -465,8 +465,8 @@ async function createCreditUsage({
   subscription_id?: string;
   credits: number;
 }) {
-  const { data: credit_usage } = await supabase_service
-    .from("credit_usage")
+    await supabase_service
+      .from("credit_usage")
     .insert([
       {
         team_id,
@@ -474,8 +474,7 @@ async function createCreditUsage({
         subscription_id: subscription_id || null,
         created_at: new Date(),
       },
-    ])
-    .select();
+    ]);
 
-  return { success: true, credit_usage };
+  return { success: true };
 }