Usage based and metering billing
Events land as they happen, get rated on the contract's own table, and reconcile to the invoice with a checksum. Five metering models, one revenue graph.
Rated and reconciled
A checksum reconciles the invoice to its event stream before it can send.
Usage and metering
No commitment
The customer pays only for what they use. No commitment and no minimum.
A cloud infrastructure provider charges $0.010 per API call and invoices monthly on actual volume. December billed $218,138.34.
Real-time ingestion, rating against the contract table, and a checksum that reconciles the invoice to its event stream before it can send.
Volume
The unit price falls as volume climbs, and each tier prices only the units inside it.
A customer at 60,000 calls pays across three tiers: 10,000 at $0.040, 40,000 at $0.030 and 10,000 at $0.022.
Graduated and volume tiers, tier boundaries that move at renewal, and the arithmetic that shows which units priced where.
Balance
The customer buys a balance up front and draws it down. It stays a liability until it is used.
A data provider sells $50,000 of credits. By June the customer has drawn 86%, leaving $7,000 and a top-up decision.
Wallet balances, drawdown at the rated price, expiry and breakage, and the deferred balance the credit represents until it is used.
Minimum
The customer commits to a minimum. Below the line they pay it, above it overage bills at standard rates.
A payments platform commits to $100,000 a year. Consumption reached $312,151.20, and June ran above the line.
Commitment tracking, rollover where the contract allows it, overage at the agreed rate, and a true-up that does not wait for renewal.
Delivery
Billing follows delivery. Each milestone bills when it is accepted, not when an invoice dates.
A rollout bills at kick-off, design sign-off, integration and go-live. Three are billed and go-live is scheduled at $150,000.
Milestone tracking, contract-based triggers, partial invoicing, and the point-in-time recognition each acceptance produces.
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