#kikhm2022 - metered billing

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karmic hamlet
karmic hamlet
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hey there, I'm not sure metered billing is the best fit here

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To answer your question: you could do this, but it requires splitting into two subscription items, and you can't assign a custom label.

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You should use the model that work for your business, but this seems like it might be a better fit for a monthly price & prorations

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I trust you know your business though, so if you say thats not a fit then so be it 🙂

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But usage it's aggregated as the subscription item level.

indigo folio
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Thanks so much for the answer. So in this case are you saying in order to have a breakdown at the client level with metered billing, we would need to have the subscriptions at the client level? In the meantime I'll take a closer look at price and proration.

karmic hamlet
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Yes that's right -- it's not possible to have two usage totals within a single subscription item

indigo folio
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Got it. Thanks again!

karmic hamlet
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NP!

indigo folio
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Thanks for the link there. Helpful! We are thinking that our product will be something like "$10 / user / month" and a coach will have multiple line items for that product...each corresponding to a different client. Can we "item" to denote the clients?

void scroll
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Hello! I'm taking over... what do you mean by "item" in your last question?

indigo folio
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I'm generally wondering how we could create itemized billing for a coach subscription that includes the usage or number of active days for each client

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i want to create a line item for each client

void scroll
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You would need to create a different Product for each client then, yep.

indigo folio
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I see.

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So clients would need to be different products, but they could have a common pricing scheme.

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like $10 / month

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which could then be prorated

void scroll
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What do you mean by "common pricing scheme?" You can certainly have various Products that have similar Prices, but multiple Products can't share the same Price.

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To clarify, you want the Invoice to have line items like "Pearl - 15 days" and "Steven - 30 days" where the 15 and 30 days are metered quantities, right?

indigo folio
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Sorry, got called away. You are correct about the line items.

void scroll
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No worries!

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Yeah, you would need separate Products (one for Pearl, one for Steven) and each Product needs a Price to define how to bill for it.

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And then you can use either metered or licensed billing, whatever makes sense for your use case.

indigo folio
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Ok

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hmmm

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The thing that gives me pause with that approach is that we do want to have a common price (that is specified globally) for all clients. E.g. a client should cost $10 / month.

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and if we change that at some later date, we want to make the change in one place so that it applies to all clients.

void scroll
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Once a Price is created its amount cannot be modified, so you can't do that regardless.

indigo folio
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ok

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but can a price be applied to multiple products?

void scroll
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You would need to update the existing Subscriptions with new Prices that define the new amount.

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No, a Price is a child of a single Product. You cannot have a single Price associated with multiple Products.

indigo folio
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i see

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ok, i think i understand the constraints we'll discuss internally. thanks a lot for your help Rubeus!

void scroll
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No problem!