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Usage Pricing Use Case 2: Usage Pricing for Scaled Services
Many vendors sell packages with usage rates that vary based on the type of usage that the consumer uploads — for example, audio processing with different rates for standard-definition or high-definition content. In this case, you can create different consumption schedules for the types of usage and associate both of them with your usage product. (Salesforce CPQ Managed Package)
Required Editions
| Available in: Salesforce CPQ Spring ’19 and later |
Your company sells audio processing service packages. Each package is a product with a recurring fee and included amounts of audio processing based on hours of HD or SD content. If a customer goes above the included hours, they're charged an extra rate for each extra hour. The premium audio processing package contains twice the level of included usage and cheaper overage rates.
For this use case, we can create two products to represent the economy package and the premium package. Each package is related to two consumption schedules that represent the package's HD and SD usage rates, so we have four unique consumption schedules in total.
Each usage rate contains a default amount of free available usage. For each consumption schedule, we can represent that as a consumption rate with a flat fee of zero and bounds from 0 to the maximum free usage value.
| Product | Product Price | SD Content | HD Content |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economy Package | $2000 / month | 1000 hours free, then $0.50 / hour | 800 hours free, then $0.40 / hour |
| Premium Package | $5000 / month | 2000 hours free, then $0.40 / hour | 1600 hours free, then $0.30 / hour |
Consumption Schedule: SD Audio Processing - Economy
Unit of Measure: Hour
Rating Method: Tier
Type: Slab
Consumption Rate 1
- Lower Bound: 1
- Upper Bound: 1000
- Price: $0
- Pricing Method: Flat Fee
- Processing Order: 1
Consumption Rate 2
- Lower Bound: 1001
- Upper Bound: Null
- Pricing Method: Per Unit
- Processing Order: 2
- Price: $0.50
Product Consumption Schedule:
- Product: Management Plan - Economy
Consumption Schedule: HD Audio Processing: Economy
Unit of Measure: Hour
Rating Method: Tier
Type: Slab
Consumption Rate 1
- Processing Order: 1
- Pricing Method: Flat Fee
- Lower Bound: 0
- Upper Bound: 800
- Price: $0
Consumption Rate 2
- Processing Order: 2
- Pricing Method: Per Unit
- Lower Bound: 801
- Upper Bound: Null
- Price: $0.40
Product Consumption Schedule
- Product: Management Plan - Economy
Consumption Schedule: SD Audio Processing - Premium
Unit of Measure: Hour
Rating Method: Tier
Type: Slab
Consumption Rate 1
- Lower Bound: 1
- Upper Bound: 2000
- Price: $0
- Pricing Method: Flat Fee
- Processing Order: 1
Consumption Rate 2
- Lower Bound: 2001
- Upper Bound: Null
- Pricing Method: Per Unit
- Processing Order: 2
- Price: $0.40
Product Consumption Schedule:
- Product: Management Plan - Premium
Consumption Schedule: HD Audio Processing: Premium
Unit of Measure: Hour
Rating Method: Tier
Type: Slab
Consumption Rate 1
- Processing Order: 1
- Pricing Method: Flat Fee
- Lower Bound: 0
- Upper Bound: 1600
- Price: $0
Consumption Rate 2
- Processing Order: 2
- Pricing Method: Per Unit
- Lower Bound: 1601
- Upper Bound: Null
- Price: $0.30
Product Consumption Schedule
- Product: Management Plan - Premium
