Defining Consumption Schedule Price Rates

Salesforce uses consumption schedules to group consumption rates. Your consumption schedule defines the unit of measurement and rating method for all of the schedule's rates. It also defines the billing frequency that Salesforce Billing uses to invoice this product.

You can create several rates on a schedule to represent increasing usage quantity boundaries with different prices.

A consumption rate’s lower bound represents the lowest quantity of usage that fits within the rate. A consumption rate’s upper bound is up to but not including the highest quantity of usage that fits within the rate. Lower bounds are inclusive, and upper bounds are exclusive. To set an unlimited upper bound for the last tier, set the upper bound to null.

In this example, a quantity of 251 is rated at $0.40 per unit (not the Rate 1 rate of $0.50, because upper bounds are exclusive). A quantity of 500.99 is also rated at $0.40 per unit (not the Rate 3 rate of $0.30, because lower bounds are inclusive).

Example

• Rate 1: 1–251 units at $0.50 per unit
• Rate 2: 251–501 units at $0.40 per unit
• Rate 3: 501–750 units at $0.30 per unit