Choose your pricing model
Concepts
Advance or arrears billing for seats
Advance or arrears billing for seats
Advance or arrears billing for seats
Charge for seats based on the seat balance at the start or end of the billing period. Billing in advance charges for seats in the period (month, quarter or year) ahead, whereas billing in arrears covers seat usage from the previous period.
Contracted seats minimums
Contracted seats minimums
Contracted seats minimums
You can configure a minimum number of contracted seats that is always billed, regardless of actual usage. For example, if your contracted minimum is 100 seats billed monthly in arrears, but a customer is only utilizing 90 seats in a given month, they are still charged for 100 seats.
Seat overages
Seat overages
Seat overages
If a customer exceeds their minimum number of contracted seats, you can bill for seat overages. If you bill for regular seats quarterly or annually in advance, you can choose to bill for overages monthly, instead of waiting until the end of the normal billing period. For example, if you bill customers for 100 seats in advance at the start of the year, you can bill for overage seats at the end of the annual period or raise a bill at the end of the current month.
Prorate fees for added seats
Prorate fees for added seats
Prorate fees for added seats
Charge a prorated fee for seats added mid-billing period (default). Disable this setting to charge the full price for added seats. For example, say you bill customers $15 per month for admin seats. If a customer adds another seat mid-month, the prorated seat charge would be approximately $7.50.
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.
