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After creating metered features, you have the flexibility to track usage first before deciding how to charge for it. Chargebee's modular architecture allows you to monitor adoption trends, analyze customer behavior, and then link pricing when you're ready.
When you're ready to set up pricing, you can define the following:
Chargebee Billing currently supports the following usage based pricing models:
You can charge a fixed base fee for included usage, and usage based charges for on-demand usage.
For example, you can charge
This model ensures a minimum revenue while scaling charges with customer consumption.
In this model, customers are billed only for what they use during a billing cycle. This flexible model ensures customers pay precisely for their consumption, making it a popular choice for on-demand services.
For example, you can charge
Before you link pricing to the metered feature, you must:
Follow these steps to link pricing for a metered feature:
Navigate to Usages > Metered Features, and select the metered feature for which you want to link pricing.
On the metered feature details page, click Link Pricing.
On the next screen that appears Step 1: Choose items to link, all plans and addons on your Chargebee Billing site gets listed. Select the plans and addons that you want to link with this metered feature and click Next: Set Included Usage.
On the next screen Step 2: Set included usage, you can:
Click Add Item to link more plans or addons with the metered feature.
Specify the Included usage for every frequency of the associated plans and addons that you linked this metered feature with, in the previous step. If left blank, the metered feature linked to the respective plan/addon frequency is considered to have no usage limit.
Click the ellipsis icon to view the currencies and variants for each price point. While the currencies and variants inherit the included usage specified for the respective frequencies by default, you can modify the included usage for them individually as required.
Navigate to the On-demand usage tab and verify the usage based items that you've linked to this metered feature. You can add more items by clicking Add Item.
Once you're done, click Link Pricing.
You have successfully linked pricing to the metered feature.
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