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| Amberflo Product | Release | Notes |
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| Metering Cloud | Cost Meters | Amberflo meters can now be used to track costs. Simply define Cost Items under the Manage tab and start ingesting events. The Costs Dashboard under the Analytics tab will aggregate costs at the customer and dimension level automatically. |
| Amberflo Product | Release | Notes |
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| Metering Cloud | CSV Upload to Ingest Events | Events can be ingested through a CSV upload on the UI. Custom CSV fields can be matched to the Amberflo meter event schema. |
| Billing Cloud | Prepaid Subscription Orders | Subscription orders now support prepaid use cases. For example, a subscription for server instances can be paid upfront for the next 12 months. A prepaid credit card will be created to cover these subscriptions. |
| Billing Cloud | Subscription Support for All Meter Types | Subscription with Overages product item rate template now supports all meter types. |
| Amberflo Product | Release | Notes |
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| Billing Cloud | Prepaid Usage | Prepaid cards can now be created in terms of usage. The purchased card will draw down from some usage, for example, 1,000,000 API Calls, until depleted. |
| Amberflo Product | Release | Notes |
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| Salesforce Managed App | Salesforce Widgets | Integrated quote form and details as a widget on the Salesforce Managed App. Salespeople can now stay within Salesforce and still create quotes and other billing cloud components on Amberflo. |
| Amberflo Product | Release | Notes |
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| Quoting Cloud | CPQ Product Launch | Quoting service, also known as Configure, Price, and Quote (CPQ), is built for usage-based and hybrid price books and supports modern entitlement terms such as prepaid credits, commitments, true-ups, multi-tier discounts, and more. It takes the guesswork out of modeling and sizing deals, and with its deep interoperability with Amberflo Metering and Billing Cloud, automates quote-to-revenue workflow by operationalizing the approved quote into generating accurate, on-demand metered invoicing and billing. |
| Billing Cloud | Credit Ledger Enhancements | Added date, label, and transaction type filtering and sorting to the credit ledger. |
| Billing Cloud | Promotions History | Added new screens and components to see active, scheduled, and expired promotions of a customer. |
| Billing Cloud | Pricing Plan Scheduling | Resolved a bug regarding the scheduling of the pricing plans. The "Now" option on the UI will now apply the pricing plan to the customer from the beginning of the current hour. |
| Amberflo Product | Release | Notes |
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| Billing Cloud | Price Modeling V2 | Updated the Price Modeling feature to better create sample pricing plans from a revenue goal and usage data. See full details here. |
| Amberflo Product | Release | Notes |
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| Metering Cloud | Updated Meter Definition & Types | Updated the meter creation flow with new types for usage and seat-based meters. See full details here. |
| Billing Cloud | Updated Seat-based Pricing Plans | With the new meter definition and types, also updated the seat-based product item rate templates available in the pricing plans. The meters that are attached to your product items will now automatically present a form to configure pricing for the selected seat-based scenario. |
| Billing Cloud | Subscription Products & Orders | Added new product item rate templates for subscription products where the customer can pay for a number of resources in advance and get charged for the overages. |
| Billing Cloud | Invoice Customization | Added ability to customize how the invoices generated on Amberflo look. Enabled options to add business name and address, customer name and address, customer traits, and a memo section to the invoices. Visit Settings / Invoice / Customize Invoice to change your preferences. |
| Amberflo Product | Release | Notes |
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| Billing Cloud | Pricing Plan Entitlements | Added entitlements, a way to keep track of features enabled for different pricing plans. Simply call the entitlements API to check if a customerId has access to a feature. |
| Amberflo Product | Release | Notes |
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| Billing Cloud | Promotion Usage Alert | Added a new alert type that notifies when a given amount of fixed promotion is consumed. |
| Billing Cloud | Rescale Usage Data for Billing | Users can define a rescaling function to apply to usage data before it is rated in the billing cloud. |
| Billing Cloud | Default lifecycle stage for new customers | Set the lifecycle stage that new customers will automatically be placed in, unless it is explicitly defined otherwise when being created. |
| Billing Cloud | Added new promotion templates | Added new promotion templates for free trials, sales events, partnership programs, and custom promotions. |
| Amberflo Product | Release | Notes |
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| Metering Cloud | Send alerts to customer emails | Added an option to allow alert notifications to be sent directly to the customer's email. |
| Billing Cloud | Customer Lifecycle | Added four customer lifecycle stages. Added APIs and UI components to move customers between states.
ONBOARDING - Only usage is tracked.
TRIAL - Both usage and billing data are tracked but the customer will not be charged.
ACTIVE - Both usage and billing data are tracked and the customer will be charged.
OFFBOARDED - Only usage is tracked. |
| Billing Cloud | Child Accounts under a Main Account | Users can now log into multiple (connected) Amberflo accounts using one email login. Multiple child accounts can be created for development environments or different internal teams. |
| Billing Cloud | Invoice-ready webhook is available outside of Stripe | Invoice ready event will fire to any user-configured webhook once the invoice status is set to Ready. |
| Amberflo Product | Release | Notes |
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| Metering Cloud | Custom Aggregation for the Ultra-frequency meter | Added an option for users to select which dimension groups are included in the aggregation of the ultra-frequency meters. |
| Billing Cloud | Prepaid Credits Prioritization | Allow users to define rules for which prepaid cards are prioritized, or consumed, first. |
| Billing Cloud | Show billing dashboard after prepaid credits are applied | The billing dashboard now shows the amounts after prepaid credits are applied. |
| Billing Cloud | Support for Non-USD Base Currencies | Allow users to select a base currency for the Amberflo account. The default was USD. |
| Billing Cloud | Commitment Renewal | Added option to auto-renew commitments. Also, added an option to set a deadline date for the renewal cancellations. |
| Amberflo Product | Release | Notes |
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| Metering Cloud | Dimension restrictions for the meter usage alert | Added an option to allow users to restrict the meter usage alert scope to a specific meter dimension. |
| Billing Cloud | Extend the expiration date of prepaid credits | Users can now change the expiration date of an active prepaid credit card. |
| Billing Cloud | Pricing Plan Templates | Added new pricing plan templates to streamline pricing plan creation in the UI. These include Usage-based, Seat-based, Subscription, and Custom pricing plans. |
| Billing Cloud | Custom Promotions in Commitments | Allow users to define a custom promotion within a commitment using any artifact from the promotion templates. |
| Amberflo Product | Release | Notes |
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| Billing Cloud | Custom Currency View on the Billing Dashboard | Tables and graphs can now be viewed in terms of the system-wide base currency or the user-defined custom currency. |
| Billing Cloud | Drag-and-drop Tool for Customer Portal Customization | Users now have the option to customize the customer portal appearance by dragging and dropping UI kit widgets to different tabs. |
| Billing Cloud | Credits Ledger Widget | Added Credits Ledger widget to the UI kit and the Customer Portal configuration. |
| Amberflo Product | Release | Notes |
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| Metering Cloud | Custom Meter Event Deduplication | Added the ability to have custom deduplication on a selected list of dimensions. The events that have the same dimension values over a specified time period will be deduplicated. |
| Metering Cloud | Composite Unique (Resource) IDs | Added the ability to declare multiple unique (resource) ID dimensions to have a composite key. |
| Billing Cloud | Prepaid Credits Pie Chart | Redesigned the prepaid credits pie chart to show the used and remaining amounts. |
| Billing Cloud | Scheduling Pricing Plans | Added the ability to schedule a pricing plan to take effect in the future. |
| Billing Cloud | Updates to the minimum grace period for invoices | Updated the minimum grace period for invoice calculations to be 12 hours. |
| Amberflo Product | Release | Notes |
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| Billing Cloud | Advanced Commitment Templates | Added two additional commitment templates. One for custom prepaid credit schedules and the other for custom true-up schedules. |
| Billing Cloud | Mid-cycle Prepaid Credits | Streamlined the process for creating prepaid credits ad-hoc in the middle of the billing cycle. The users now have an option to apply the prepaid credits purchased in the middle of a billing period either to the entire billing period or only the rest of the billing period. |
| Amberflo Product | Release | Notes |
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| Billing Cloud | Export Data from the Customer Portal | Added the ability to download cost and usage data from the Customer Portal as a CSV file. |
| Billing Cloud | Commitment Templates | Added templates for common commitment use cases. New templates include prepaid credit purchases, true-ups, and fixed subscriptions. |
| Amberflo Product | Release | Notes |
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| Metering Cloud | Meter Creation Enhancements | Streamlined the UI for meter creation. |
| Billing Cloud | Hidden Promotions | Added hidden promotions that will not be shown on the invoice and will only be applied to the base price behind the scenes. |
| Amberflo Product | Release | Notes |
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| Metering Cloud | Alerts Enhancements | Added explanations and links to documentation for each alert type to the Alerts UI. Added a step-by-step wizard for alert creation. |
| Metering Cloud | Drawer view for events on the 'By Event' UI | Each event expands into a drawer view when clicked in the 'By Event' UI. |
| Billing Cloud | Credits Ledger | View all prepaid credit transactions (including additions and deductions) for a customer in a single table view. |
| Billing Cloud | Start and end times for promotions | Apply promotions to a customer between a custom time range. |
| Billing Cloud | Automatic Promotions | Automatically apply a promotion to a customer according to their customer tags. |
| Billing Cloud | Customer Tags | Customer tags are similar to customer traits and are used to set up automatic promotions. |
