Billable items form the basis for billing the services used in your product. The billable item represents an item that is to be billed. You can model the different line items in your customer invoice as a billable item within Togai.
What is a billable item?
A billable item will contain the following entities -
Billable Item types
We explained what a usage meter is and how you can create one in the previous section. Usage meters are a type of billable items that are meant to model consumption based line items in your invoice. Examples of such line items include total duration for which an instance was running, total data stored, number of tasks, number of API calls, data ingress and egress costs.
This is a type of billable item you can use to model seat based pricing or license based pricing. You would be able to define price per unit for every seat or license when you create your price plan and based on the quantity allotted (number of seats/licenses), the customer will be invoiced accordingly.
This is a type of item that can be used to track unique seats/users/licenses. You can provide a unique license id that can be used to understand how many unique users are using a feature or your product and then price them accordingly. For example, Slack’s pricing is based on unique active users and this add-on type can be used to model the same.
This type is used to model a flat pricing without any input quantity. Fixed fees can be one-time fees (eg: professional services, setup fees) or recurring fees (platform monthly/annual fee). This configuration is provided when defining the price plan.
This billable item type serves two purposes - one to give promotional credits that can be used to model discounts or marketing promotions. Another purpose is to model minimum commitments for any individual line item/group of line items/entire invoice.
Features are a billable item type that are used to model entitlements. When a customer purchases/subscribes to a software product, they are essentially getting access to use a product’s set of features for a defined time period. Entitlements are this individual list of features or a group of packaged features that can be associated to a customer. Features and entitlements are used in 2 main scenarios -
Togai supports metered and unmetered entitlements.
Metered entitlements are features that have a countable limit to the number of times a customer can get access to a feature. Metered entitlements need to be associated with an event schema to track the usage of the feature by the customer. An example here is Make’s pricing which allows you to subscribe to a plan with a limit on the number of operations allowed per month.
Unmetered entitlements are equivalent to feature flags where customers either have access to a feature or not. This does not require a mapping to an event schema and can be associated idependently to customer accounts.
You will be able to define the pricing for individual features/entitlements in Togai’s price plan section.
Billable items form the basis for billing the services used in your product. The billable item represents an item that is to be billed. You can model the different line items in your customer invoice as a billable item within Togai.
What is a billable item?
A billable item will contain the following entities -
Billable Item types
We explained what a usage meter is and how you can create one in the previous section. Usage meters are a type of billable items that are meant to model consumption based line items in your invoice. Examples of such line items include total duration for which an instance was running, total data stored, number of tasks, number of API calls, data ingress and egress costs.
This is a type of billable item you can use to model seat based pricing or license based pricing. You would be able to define price per unit for every seat or license when you create your price plan and based on the quantity allotted (number of seats/licenses), the customer will be invoiced accordingly.
This is a type of item that can be used to track unique seats/users/licenses. You can provide a unique license id that can be used to understand how many unique users are using a feature or your product and then price them accordingly. For example, Slack’s pricing is based on unique active users and this add-on type can be used to model the same.
This type is used to model a flat pricing without any input quantity. Fixed fees can be one-time fees (eg: professional services, setup fees) or recurring fees (platform monthly/annual fee). This configuration is provided when defining the price plan.
This billable item type serves two purposes - one to give promotional credits that can be used to model discounts or marketing promotions. Another purpose is to model minimum commitments for any individual line item/group of line items/entire invoice.
Features are a billable item type that are used to model entitlements. When a customer purchases/subscribes to a software product, they are essentially getting access to use a product’s set of features for a defined time period. Entitlements are this individual list of features or a group of packaged features that can be associated to a customer. Features and entitlements are used in 2 main scenarios -
Togai supports metered and unmetered entitlements.
Metered entitlements are features that have a countable limit to the number of times a customer can get access to a feature. Metered entitlements need to be associated with an event schema to track the usage of the feature by the customer. An example here is Make’s pricing which allows you to subscribe to a plan with a limit on the number of operations allowed per month.
Unmetered entitlements are equivalent to feature flags where customers either have access to a feature or not. This does not require a mapping to an event schema and can be associated idependently to customer accounts.
You will be able to define the pricing for individual features/entitlements in Togai’s price plan section.