albizu-usage-pricing | Stripe Developers | Page 1

split surge Mar 3, 2022, 8:49 PM

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Welcome! 👋

Sounds like you're looking for our usage-based pricing. It has two shapes, licensed if you want to bill based on the number of licenses, or metered if you want to bill based on actual usage. You can read more about them here:
https://stripe.com/docs/products-prices/pricing-models#usage-based-pricing

blissful dragon Mar 3, 2022, 8:53 PM

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Yes, I've seen this already but what I want to emulate the Slacks billing process, where they charge only for users that are using their service actively. Any user that's not using Slack for the las 14 days are no longer counted as active. If a users comes back then they pro-rate. See image attached.

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split surge Mar 3, 2022, 8:55 PM

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So that would align with the metered approach. You would track active users and report usage back to Stripe, then we'll bill based on the usage that you report.

blissful dragon Mar 3, 2022, 8:57 PM

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Got it. So we wouldn't no longer be using Stripe's subscription service as it stand, nd we would have to then manage the subscriptions on our end and just use Stripe for billing.

split surge Mar 3, 2022, 9:00 PM

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Apologies for the confusion, you would still create the subscriptions in Stripe. The only piece that would need to happen on your end is tracking how many active user's you want to charge for, and then reporting that usage to us.

It's a bit lengthy, but this guide walks through how to set up this flow:
https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/metered

Metered billing with Elements

Learn how to charge customers based on how much they use your product or service. For example, a service could charge customers based on the number of API calls they make or the amount of data they consume.

blissful dragon Mar 3, 2022, 9:24 PM

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Thanks. We'll check it out.

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