Ask HN: How do you manage subscriptions do usage based billing?

1 pointsby ghoshbishakh2 anni fa2 comments

Hello HN Community. Till now I was using Stripe for Pinggy.io . But Stripe does not allow me to track usage ( such as how much GB of data is used ) per subscription.

This is important becasuse with each subscription seat I want to provide X GB of free data transfer. Then charge something for the rest. But stripe does not allow me to track the usage on a per subscription granularity.

I could not find any decent open source alternative. Currently I am exploring KillBill, but seems like I have to reqrite the Stripe plugin for that.

How do you manage your subscriptions and usage based billing? I know that for AI startups, this is a must.

2 comments

pamonrails2 anni fa

Pierre from Kill Bill here. This sounds like something that is be supported out of the box. I'm not sure I understand why the Stripe plugin needs to be rewritten, but feel free to reach out to our Google groups if we can help!

jlhonora2 anni fa

Stripe now supports usage-based billing: https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/usage-based/pr...