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Usage-based billing

Bill for exactly what they use — metered, rated, and invoiced automatically.

Spreadsheets and legacy tools break on metered usage, tiered rates, corporate hierarchies, and telecom tax. PulseBill meters any usage, rates it, consolidates parent/child accounts, applies tax, and collects — recurring, usage, or hybrid — invoice to payout on one platform.

What you can bill

Subscriptions, usage, or both — on one invoice.

From flat plans to sub-cent metered rating, PulseBill handles the pricing models real businesses run on.

Metered usage

Rate anything you can count — minutes, messages, seats, gigabytes, API calls, transactions — at any granularity, including sub-cent rates.

Recurring subscriptions

Fixed monthly and annual plans, trials, proration, and mid-cycle changes handled automatically.

Hybrid plans

Combine a base subscription with metered overages and one-time charges on a single invoice.

Tiered & volume pricing

Graduated, volume, and per-destination rate tables — including international rating — without spreadsheets.

Corporate hierarchies

Parent/child accounts with consolidated corporate invoicing and per-child detail — the model enterprises actually buy.

Automated tax

Telecom and services tax calculated and itemized per line, with granular exemptions.

How it works

From raw usage to collected payment.

Ingest usage

Stream events and records in via API — calls, messages, consumption, transactions.

Rate it

Apply subscription, tiered, volume, and per-destination rates to every event automatically.

Consolidate & tax

Roll children up to parents, apply exemptions, and calculate telecom/services tax per line.

Invoice & collect

Generate a clean, itemized invoice and collect through the Pulse gateway — invoice to payout on one platform.

Why it wins

The billing spine telecom and services actually need.

Built for telecom & services

Sub-cent rating, per-destination international rates, minutes and messages — the hard cases legacy SaaS billing tools were never built for.

Consolidated corporate billing

Parent/child hierarchies with a single consolidated invoice and per-child breakouts — the way multi-entity customers expect to be billed.

Invoice to payout, one platform

Rating, tax, invoicing, and collection on the same secure core, so you are not stitching a biller to a processor to a tax engine.

API-first

Push usage and manage catalog, plans, and subscriptions programmatically; automate the whole billing spine.

Automated, itemized tax

Telecom and services taxes computed and shown per line, with granular per-tax exemptions and audit-ready records.

White-label ready

Resell billing under your own brand alongside payments and voice through the partner program.

See the full PulseBill product, the security model, or resell billing under your brand with white-label payments.

FAQ

Usage-based billing, answered.

What is usage-based billing?

Usage-based (or consumption) billing charges customers for what they actually use — minutes, messages, data, seats, transactions — instead of, or in addition to, a flat subscription. It requires metering the usage, rating it against a price table, and invoicing the total, often with tax.

Can it handle metered and consumption billing at scale?

Yes. Usage events stream in by API and are rated automatically against tiered, volume, and per-destination price tables — including sub-cent and international rating — so you can bill high volumes of granular usage without spreadsheets.

Can I combine subscriptions with usage (hybrid billing)?

Yes. A base recurring subscription, metered overages, tiered usage, and one-time charges can all land on a single itemized invoice, with proration and mid-cycle changes handled for you.

Does it support parent/child corporate hierarchies?

Yes. Child accounts roll up to a parent for a single consolidated corporate invoice with per-child detail — the consolidated-billing model large and multi-entity customers expect.

Does it automate telecom and services tax?

Yes. Telecom and services taxes are calculated and itemized per line, with support for granular per-tax exemptions and audit-ready records.

How does it collect payment?

Invoices collect through the Pulse gateway on PCI DSS Level 1 rails, so rating, tax, invoicing, and payment run on one platform — invoice to payout — instead of separate systems.

Get started

Put your billing on autopilot.

Book a walkthrough and we’ll model your plans, usage, and tax on PulseBill.