Automate usage tracking, overage calculations, and invoice generation. Achieve 100% billing accuracy while eliminating manual reconciliation work that wastes 15+ hours per month.
Eliminate invoice errors from manual data entry and calculation mistakes. Every API call, feature usage, and overage tracked precisely.
Finance team freed from manual usage exports, spreadsheet calculations, and invoice reconciliation. Time redirected to strategic financial planning.
Capture every billable event automatically. No more undercharging due to missed usage or delayed manual tracking.
6 usage-based SaaS companies automated billing in 2024
Finance team exports usage data from multiple systems, reconciles in spreadsheets, manually calculates overages, and generates invoices. Creates 3-5 day billing cycle delays and frequent calculation errors.
Implementing usage-based billing in Stripe requires engineering resources to instrument product, send events reliably, handle failed transmissions, and maintain integrations as pricing changes.
API calls go untracked during system issues. Feature usage data gets lost in transit. Manual tracking misses edge cases. Result: systematic undercharging and revenue loss.
Every billable event tracked automatically—API calls, feature usage, storage consumption, compute time. Events streamed reliably with retry logic and dead letter queues for failures.
Automated tier detection, proration for mid-cycle upgrades, custom pricing rules by customer segment. Handles complex pricing models—per-seat plus usage, tiered pricing, volume discounts.
Usage data synced to billing system automatically. Invoices generated with detailed breakdowns. Revenue recognition rules applied correctly. Integrates with accounting systems for seamless reconciliation.
"We went from 5-day billing cycles with regular errors to same-day invoicing with zero mistakes. Our finance team finally trusts the numbers."
— CFO, API Platform Company
Complete workflow from usage event capture through invoice delivery. Tracks billable events in real-time, aggregates by customer and billing period, calculates charges based on pricing tiers, generates detailed invoices, and syncs to accounting systems. Built for your specific pricing model and billing cadence.
Includes: Usage event tracking infrastructure • Real-time metering dashboard • Overage calculation engine • Tiered pricing logic • Proration for plan changes • Invoice generation with breakdowns • Stripe/billing platform integration • Accounting system sync • Revenue recognition automation • Customer usage portals.
Unlike DIY Stripe integrations that require ongoing engineering maintenance, this is a production-grade billing system built specifically for usage-based models. We handle edge cases, pricing complexity, and system reliability so your team focuses on building product features, not billing infrastructure.
Week 1: Map billable events in your product and define pricing tier logic. Instrument event tracking at critical touchpoints. Week 2-3: Build usage aggregation pipeline and overage calculation engine. Configure invoice templates with your branding. Week 4-5: Integrate with Stripe or billing platform, connect accounting system, test with historical usage data. Week 6: Deploy to production with monitoring, train finance team on dashboards.
Integrates with your product API for usage events, data warehouse for historical analysis, Stripe or billing platform for invoice generation, accounting system for revenue sync, and CRM for customer context. Event streaming built with reliability guarantees—retries, idempotency, monitoring.
Timeline
5-6 weeks to production deployment
Complex pricing is exactly what automation handles best. Multi-tier plans, volume discounts, customer-specific pricing, proration, credits—we build the logic once and it scales infinitely. Manual processes break under complexity.
Automation makes pricing changes easier, not harder. Update tier thresholds or rates in configuration, test with historical data, deploy instantly. No spreadsheet formulas to update across dozens of files.
Event deduplication built in via idempotency keys. Missing events detected through monitoring and gap analysis. Reconciliation reports flag discrepancies immediately. Reliability is foundational, not optional.
See how automated billing works for your pricing model