#noegip-metered-plan

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willow ore
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Hello 👋
Give me a moment to catch up and I'll respond as soon as I can 🙂 thanks

twin geode
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I'm using action: "set" and setting a different timestamp, but changing it action: "increment" doesn't really effect the outcome

austere anvil
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Can you try updating the usage with action: set again and send me the request ID (req_123) for it?

twin geode
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sure, give me a sec

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wait, it only response with a mbur_123?

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or is that what you mean?

austere anvil
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Here, either one totally works

twin geode
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mbur_1LSLVGDDg1LwU25HmaChfa1J

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ah got it, its in the headers 🙂

austere anvil
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Yeah there we go. And thanks, checking in to that usage record

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You are definitely on the right track with set, I am not sure why it would still increment here but am looking in to it.

twin geode
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thanks

austere anvil
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Still checking in to that. Do you know already if that is how you set this up?

twin geode
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just a sec

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it's currently setup to sum up the usage of values during the period

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hah lol ok

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let me check if that works how I expect it, I guess i misinterpreted that

austere anvil
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Ah there we go. I haven't had a chance to test this but I do think that last_during_period should help here

twin geode
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that works

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and i assume it calculates how much time was used for 3 units and calculates the amount for that?

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but if I remove that 1 unit half way into the month it will still bill me €0.50?

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(billing period is monthly)

austere anvil
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I'm not sure I follow. Are you looking for the metered usage to be prorated in some way?

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Actually, taking a step back, can you tell me the end goal here for how you want this to work?

twin geode
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no not prorated, so what we're trying to do is:

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  • have a flat fee for the first 10 units (as a base fee), which is just €10,-
  • every unit above that is calculated based on how much the unit was "enabled"
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every unit is basically €1,-

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but if I use 11 units for the whole month, you pay €11,-

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if I use 10 units for half of the month, and than from the 15th (or so) go to 11 units, you pay just what you have used that period, so this would mean around €10,50 (half of 1 unit price above the flat fee)

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the flat fee is always billed upfront, but all that you used extra is paid when you're billing cycle ends

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i hope that makes sense 🙂

austere anvil
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That makes sense though unfortunately I am not sure if we have built-in support for that pricing model. With the latest config we discussed, if you set a qty of 11 midway through the month the user would be billed €11,-

twin geode
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ah yes exactly, that's why I was confused about "sum"

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I expected it to sum up the usage

austere anvil
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I am thinking on how to do this with built-in Stripe functionality

twin geode
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it's something 1password does for example, bill on how much seats were given out during the billing period 🙂

austere anvil
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Honestly standard prorations may be the way to go here. The line items on the invoices would look decently different but I think it would calculate this properly

twin geode
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i assume its a pretty common use case 😄

austere anvil
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Or at least it would in the 10 to 11 scenario. I am trying to think of what if you went from 10 to 12 to 11 and so on (as I am assuming that that is possible)

twin geode
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it will always go by 1 step, but can go down for sure

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same as 1passwords business model basically

austere anvil
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Honestly this sounds like our tiered pricing may be a better fit here than the metered usage model but I am unsure how that would work with these updates

twin geode
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I'll try out some other setups

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see how it reacts 🙂

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I don't think it's possible with Stripe

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it mentions a similar approach, but it just bills it completely

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like its now

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prorating doesn't do the trick i think

austere anvil
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I think having a standard €1 price and updating the quantity as you go would work here. Can just make sure to never put the quantity below 10.

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What issues are you running in to with that model that you just mentioned?

twin geode
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ah I get what you mean

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just used the license model and ditch metered all together

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set the quantity (default is 10), but if you go above just update it to that number and prorate

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right?

austere anvil
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Yeah, that would let you charge at the per seat rates prorated to the amount of time that the user actually spent at each rate

twin geode
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ok let me try that, will probably take some time

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thanks for your help, great support 🙂

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if it doesn't work or run into another problem I'll open up a new request here and refer to this chat 🙂