Usage-based billing use cases

Usage-based billing use cases help you turn product consumption into invoices. Pick the group that matches when your customer pays, then open the tutorial for that commercial model.

Prepaid

Customers pay before they use the product. The allowance is a separate included quantity for each product. This guide does not invoice usage past that allowance.

Offer prepaid plans with a separate included usage for each product➔

Postpaid

Customers pay after they use the product. There is no included allowance. Chargebee invoices recorded usage at the end of the billing period.

Bill customers purely based on usage at a fixed price per unit➔

Bill customers purely based on usage by package, not by individual unit➔

Hybrid

Customers pay a committed amount up front and are invoiced for usage past that commitment. The commitment and the usage charge can bill on the same cycle or on different cadences.

Bill every successful outcome with outcome-based pricing➔

Bill annually for a plan with yearly included usage per product, and charge overage monthly➔

Bill per seat with included usage per seat and monthly overages➔