Types of pricing models supported for metered features

Portcall supports most common pricing models a modern SaaS company might consider offering.

Supported pricing models

Unit priciing

Simplest form of pricing model for metered features. It's linear, meaning that price increments as total usage of the feature (per unit) increases.

An example of this would be $0.50 per credit used.

Using up 10 credits would result in a bill of $0.50 _ 10 = $5.00, whereas using up 1000 credits would result in a billg of $0.50 _ 1000 = $500.00.

Tiered pricing

Similar to unit pricing, but with tiers. Within each tier there is a unit price, but typically the unit price goes down as usage tiers go up.

An example of this would be:

From 0 to 100 credits - $0.5 per credit From 101 to 500 credits - $0.3 per credit From 501 - 1000 credits - $0.2 per credit

In this example, using up 10 credits would result in a bill of $0.5 * 10 = $5.00.

Using up 1000 credits would result in a bill of $0.5 _ 100 + $0.3 _ 400 + $0.1 * 500 = $270.00

Block pricing

With block pricing, customers buy pre-set "blocks" or "packs" of a product. The entire block has one price.

An example could look like this:

A block of 1-500 credits costs $50 A block of 501-1000 credits costs $75

If a customer used up 300 credits, they would be billed $50.

And if a customer used up 520 credits, they would be billed $50 (for the first 500 credits) and $75 (for the extra 20 credits that are in the 501-1000 credit block tier).