Quoting usage-based billing | Turnstile
Learn how to configure and quote complex usage-based pricing models that scale with your customers' growth. From tiered pricing to overages, discover how to clearly communicate usage-based terms to prospects before they sign.
When you sell a product priced on consumption — API calls, messages, data processed, or any other metered metric — figuring out what to charge each month becomes its own manual project, separate from the contract you already negotiated.
Turnstile has two pricing types built for this: usage pricing for customers who pay purely for what they consume, and committed usage for customers who pre-purchase a set amount with an overage rate for anything above it. This video walks through how to configure both directly on a quote.
What's covered:
• Selecting usage or committed usage pricing on a quote line item
• Usage pricing: setting a unit cost and adding volume-based overage tiers
• Committed usage pricing: entering a pre-committed quantity, base rate, and overage rate
• Turnstile's automatic calculation of committed totals and overage tracking
• Advanced options: graduated versus volume tier logic, arrears versus advance billing
• Previewing projected billing in the invoice preview before sending the quote
• How usage pricing totals display as "Not Yet Determined" before usage occurs
• How accepted quotes carry pricing terms into the subscription automatically
Chapters:
0:00 The challenge of billing for usage-based products
0:26 Select a product and open pricing type options
0:39 Usage pricing: pay for what you consume
0:57 Committed usage pricing: pre-purchase with overage
1:24 Configure usage pricing and overage tiers
1:43 Configure committed usage quantity and overage rate
2:19 Advanced pricing options: tiers, batch sizes, and billing timing
2:51 Preview billing in the invoice preview before sending
3:12 How pricing terms carry into the subscription automatically
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