#sf_webhooks
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Hi there, right now the only recurrence is one_time, so yes you are right, you can only create once-off alerts.
pastel relic
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is there anything else I can do to setup a flow where user prepays for usage and auto replenishes a subscription term or when they max out their usage?
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Is it about prebilling ? i.e., Collecting a few months invoices upfront?
And does " auto replenishes a subscription term" mean cancelling a subscription?
pastel relic
sorry I didn't explain myself well enough. A user subscribes to a monthly allowance of 1000 tokens, now when either the month finishes or they have used the 1000 tokens we want to renew/restart the subscription
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Ok so for example your customer subscibed on the 2nd day of the month. Let's say they finish the 1k tokens on 10th of the same month, you want to renew the subscription and change the billing_cycle_anchor to 10th of the month?
pastel relic
yup
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Ok, you can follow this doc to implement the credit burndown billing model. The basic idea here is to charge your customer an one-time invoice, and grant them billing credits.
pastel relic
sounds great, but how would know when they exhusted their tokens?
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Once they consumed all credits (i.e., the billing alert webhook is fired). You can then create another invoice and send to them for another 10k token
pastel relic
will the billing alert fire for the next time they exhust 10k tokens?
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You need to create another alert for the same customer since the alert is only fired one time.
pastel relic
does the alert need to be 10k or 20k tokens?
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You can also set up a subscription, when your customer pays the invoice successfully (i.e., invoice.paid is fired), automatically set up the billing alert and grant them the billing credits.
pastel relic
so what is the burndown billing giving me better then a subscription (it seems like my bottleneck is the alerting)
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You can use subscription with burndown model, they are not mutually exclusive.
pastel relic
gotcha so my alert would be when user hits 0?
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Actually it should be when the user has used all tokens (i,e, 1k).
pastel relic
got it, now when i recreate the alert do i set the amount to 10k or 20k (10k original + 10k new)
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Hmm, I don't have an answer for this. Can I suggest you to write in to us so that I can continue helping you through emails?
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