Usage Based Billing Models

Schematic enables you to implement usage-based billing models quickly, and enforce any associated limits within your product as your customers reach them using Schematic’s feature management capabilities.

For instance if you have a pay in advance model, when a customer reaches the credit limit, you can prevent them from using more.

While base charges (e.g. a subscription fee) are defined at the plan level, as described here, usage-based billing is defined at the individual entitlement level.

What is usage based billing?

Usage-based billing is a pricing model where customers are charged based on their usage of a particular feature. This model is useful for businesses offering variable or consumption-based products, such as APIs, cloud services, or subscription tiers with metered features.

Supported Billing Models

Schematic supports a number of usage-based models. If the one you care about is missing, please send us a note at hi@schematichq.com.

Pay as you go

Charge customers based on their usage of a feature without a preset fee or limit.

This is ideal for event-based features in Schematic such API calls or SMS usage.

Configuring pay as you go

1. Navigate to a plan with a metered entitlement.
2. Click on the entitlement that you’d like to monetize.
3. Select “Pay as you go” and the corresponding product from Stripe to aggregate usage against.

Pay in advance

Charge customers up front for pre-defined usage.

This is ideal for scenarios where customers prefer buying usage in pre-determined chunks, and is supported for trait-based features in Schematic such as Seats or Projects.

Configuring pay in advance

1. Navigate to a plan with a metered entitlement.
2. Click on the entitlement that you’d like to monetize.
3. Select “Pay in advance” and the corresponding product from Stripe to aggregate usage against.

Fixed fee with overage

Coming soon.

Credit burndown

Coming soon.