CUSTOMER BILLING
Overview
6 min
amberflo billing cloud is a full featured, flexible billing solution designed for modern businesses moving beyond traditional subscription models it supports usage based, hybrid, and fixed rate billing, giving you the tools to align pricing with customer value in real time what sets amberflo apart is its modular architecture the metering, rating, and invoicing components are decoupled, which means you can evolve pricing strategies without disrupting billing operations invoices are dynamically generated as usage occurs and can include usage based charges, fixed fees, discounts, or prepaid credits finalized invoices flow seamlessly into systems like stripe payments for payment processing or erp platforms for revenue recognition pricing and rating flexibility amberflo supports the broadest set of rate models in the market, enabling you to build pricing plans that fit your exact business modelprice machine md usage based pay as you go per unit of consumption fixed flat monthly or recurring fees hybrid combine fixed charges with usage based fees per unit and per unit with dimensions per block and per block with dimensions tiered and tiered with dimensions volume based pricing at the core of this flexibility is amberflo’s price machine, a state engine that can model even the most complex pricing scenarios it handles dimensions (e g , region, plan type, storage class), supports advanced reducers (max usage, distinct resources, averages), and enables experimentation with tiering and discounts this architecture ensures you can price fairly and transparently, while easily rolling out new monetization models as your product evolves real time billing and reporting amberflo provides interactive dashboards and reports that give immediate visibility into revenue billing by customer drill into usage and spend per customer, segmented by product item track daily spend and percentage changes billing by pricing plan compare starter, pro, and enterprise plans to see which are most profitable and which customers drive revenue per plan billing by meter analyze revenue at the most granular level—the underlying meters—showing top customers and daily spend changes this real time reporting ensures you can answer key questions which product features drive the most revenue? how are different plans performing? which customers generate the highest value? api monetization for companies offering apis as products, amberflo makes it simple to monetize usage meter your api instrument endpoints to track calls, records processed, or other dimensions integrate easily use amberflo sdks (python and more) for efficient usage collection expose usage share real time usage with customers through the hosted customer portal or embed react components in your own app apply pricing plans build usage based pricing (per unit, tiered, block, etc ) and generate continuously updated invoices this approach delivers transparent, customer friendly billing that builds trust and accelerates revenue key features pricing plan management versioning, migration, and deprecation discounts, credits, and custom currencies prepaid balances and promotional offers on demand invoicing real time metered invoices available at any point in the billing cycle analytics and insights revenue explorer, price modeling, and actionable reporting integrations stripe payments and erp systems audit trails full visibility from metering through invoicing for compliance why amberflo amberflo was built from the ground up for usage based billing and cost attribution unlike retrofitted subscription systems, amberflo natively supports real time metering and rating at scale the result pricing aligned directly with customer value continuous, transparent invoices customers can see in real time the flexibility to adapt billing models as markets and technologies change
