Seat-based pricing
Sequence provides native support for dynamic seat and user based pricing models
Choose your pricing model
Sequence provides native support for businesses with seat-based pricing, including seat types, a simple API to submit seat updates and a dashboard to track seat balances and changes. With Sequence, you can automate billing for standard or tiered seat fees and optionally prorate seat upgrades. Charge a contracted minimum seat number and configure how to bill for seat overage fees.
Learn more about how to configure seat types in Sequence and programmatically update seat balances by submitting seat updates from your application.
Concepts
Linear seat-based pricing
With linear seat-based pricing you set a single price and apply it to all seats your customer uses. With this pricing model, the price per seat is the same regardless of how many seats your customer uses.
Graduated seat-based pricing
With graduated seat-based pricing, the price per seat varies as the total number of seats used moves across tiers. For example, with the configuration below the first 15 seats will be charged £12 each, and every additional seats beyond that will be charged £15.
Worked examples
Monthly in arrears seat-based billing with proration
In this example, Simplify Saas charges its customer £15 a month per seat in arrears. Seats added mid-month are charged a prorated fee.
The customer (Flower Saas) started with zero seats. On April 18th, they added 27 seats. At the end of April, Flower Saas receives an invoices for 27 seats (prorated to £6.50), covering the period of 1 - 30 April.
Through April and May, no other seats are added. At the end of May, Flower Saas receives an invoice for 27 seats at £15 per seat.