Usage Floors

The order product field Usage Floor Quantity defines the minimum usage quantity to charge for, even in the event of little or no usage. For example, if your order product has a usage floor quantity of 10, and usages sum to 7, the actual invoiced quantity will be 10. If you still want your invoice line to contain an effective unit price equal the summary’s actual quantity, create a custom field.

Your usage summary’s total quantity field reflects the quantity of related usage records. However, Salesforce Billing uses the usage floor quantity to calculate the summary’s unbilled subtotal and unit price from the related price schedule.

Usage floors are available only for legacy usage. However, if you’re using consumption schedule usage, you can create a consumption schedule that emulates the effects of usage floors. In this case, your first consumption rate should have an upper bound equal to the usage floor and a price equal to the upper bound multiplied by the cost per unit.

Example Create a consumption schedule for a product that costs $1.50 per unit and has a usage floor of 50.

Consumption Schedule

Type: Range

Consumption Rate 1

Lower Bound: 0

Upper Bound: 50

Pricing Method: Flat Fee

Price: $75

Consumption Rate 2

Lower Bound: 51

Upper Bound: Null

Pricing Method: Per Unit

Price: $1.50