Subscription (Add-on) Charges

Fixed Subscription Charges

Amberflo enables customers to build pricing plans that also have a fixed recurring charge per billing period.
Similar to a fixed subscription fee.

Pricing plans can be a pure-play usage-based, fixed subscription, or a hybrid, that is, fixed fee plus additional metered components. Our flexible Pricing Machine allows you to build any custom pricing logic needed.

How to add a fixed subscription charge

When configuring a pricing plan, you can choose the 'Fixed Rate Add-Ons' option. This way the metered product items will be charged based on the defined usage-based plan, but the invoice will also have the fixed charge added.

In the example below, you would select the option to add a 'Fixed Rate Add-On'.

That brings up the view shown below where we allow you to define the charge name, frequency, and proration terms.

Percentage of amount spent

In Amberflo, you also have the option to include an add-on charge that is calculated as some percentage of the invoice amount. This is common for support or consulting packages where the customer where the charge will be calculated as a percentage of the invoice amount, and then added to the final invoice.

For example, suppose a customer pays $1,000 for usage-based charges including API calls and compute resources. Then suppose that the support charge is 20% of the invoiced amount each month. Then in this case, an additional $200 would be added to the $1,000 usage charge, for a total billed amount of $1,200 for that month.

How to add a percentage-based charge

When configuring a pricing plan, you can choose the 'Percentage of Amount Spend' option. This way the metered product items will be charged based on the defined usage-based plan, but the invoice will also have the fixed charge added that is calculated as a percentage of the usage-based charges.

As shown in the screenshot of the pricing plan view above, you would select the option to add 'Percentage of Amount Spend'.

This brings up the view shown below where we allow you to define the charge name and the percentage of the spend that will be used to calculate the additional charge.