Can tracked item can track the maximum number subscribed within a month?
Our pricing plan is to charge number of activated employees in a
month if you don't deactivate the account
the same amount of employee will be carried over to the next month.
Within a month if they activate/deactivate
the account we want to count as one subscription.
I was not sure if cheddargetter can track this or I need to
develop script to track number of activated account in a month and
update
the number to cheddargetter.
#1 Posted by Marc Guyer Support staff on 07 Jun, 2011 03:36 PM
Hi Shinya -- I think you mean "high watermark" type billing. In other words, even if the customer reduces usage within a billing period, they are billed for the highest usage in that period. Am I understanding correctly?
The tracking is fairly simple: whatever the item quantity is set to at the end of the billing period -- that is what is billed. That quantity can optionally be carried over to the next billing period.
Does that answer your question?
#2 Posted by Shinya Koizumi on 07 Jun, 2011 04:49 PM
Thanks Marc,
I see so I just have to do the counting and set up the cron job to update the tracking item at the end of each customer's billing date.
#3 Posted by Marc Guyer Support staff on 07 Jun, 2011 07:04 PM
That sounds right. Alternatively, you could use the tracked items to record the high watermark. Then, use the transaction post hook to be notified that a customer's billing period ended and a new one has begun. At that point, you could then update the tracked item to the current level.
Dean closed this discussion on 16 Jan, 2013 08:29 PM.