Usage Based Pricing & Billing

Turn Usage Into Revenue 

Younium helps subscription businesses monetize usage-based and hybrid pricing models with automated usage collection, flexible pricing logic, and accurate invoicing — all connected to billing, revenue recognition, and subscription management.

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  • Quinyx
  • Signicat
  • Kognity
  • Voyado
  • Topdesk
  • Ardoq
  • Chargepoint
  • Superoffice
  • Spotler
  • Visma
  • Catalystone
Key capabilities

Price Flexibly. Bill Accurately.

Younium supports usage-based, recurring, and hybrid pricing models, with automated billing that keeps up with every change in how customers consume your services.

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Quantity-based pricing

Charge based on usage volume multiplied by a defined unit price.

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Volume pricing

Apply pricing based on predefined usage volume ranges and corresponding unit prices.

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Tiered pricing

Define pricing tiers where usage is charged differently across consumption ranges.

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Hybrid pricing models

Combine recurring subscription charges with usage-based pricing within the same customer agreement and billing flow.

Pricing

Pricing that scales based on usage

With flexible pricing structures such as per-unit, tiered, volume-based, or hybrid models, Younium makes it easy to set up pricing that reflects real value and supports accurate, transparent usage-based billing.

Functionality

  • Create usage-based product types 
  • Add usage prices to price lists
  • Apply prices to orders or override with custom pricing
  • Support for flexible models: quantity, volume, and tiered pricing
  • Choose how usage is measured: sum, average, or max over a billing period
Billing

Track and bill exactly what customers use.

Younium automates the process by importing usage data, applying flexible pricing rules, and generating invoices that accurately reflect real usage. This enables a more transparent, value-driven pricing model for both businesses and their customers.

Functionality

  • Capture or import usage data manually, via CSV, or through the API
  • Match usage to the correct charge/product, even when multiple usage products exist on an order
  • Automatically calculate charges according to the defined pricing model
  • Generate invoices that accurately reflect real consumption
  • Apply preprocessing rules to handle customer-specific logic (grouping, transformations, or adjustments)
  • Combine usage with recurring fees or seat-based pricing for hybrid revenue models
Revenue Recognition

Streamlining RevRec, from contract to close

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Define usage tiers, volume-based pricing, thresholds, or hybrid models, and let Younium automatically apply rating rules at billing time.

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Automatically transform collected usage data into precise invoices and recognized revenue, with built-in flexibility for proration, overages, commitments, and custom terms.

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FAQ

Usage-based pricing & billing FAQs

About Youniums usage-based functionality

Younium’s usage-based functionality provides a complete end-to-end solution for monetizing products and services based on actual customer consumption.

Whether your business charges for API calls, transactions, storage, messages, hours, seats, or any other measurable unit, Younium enables you to accurately capture, price, and bill usage at scale.

The solution covers both usage-based pricing and usage-based billing. You can define flexible pricing models that align costs with the value delivered to customers, whether through pure pay-as-you-go offerings or hybrid models that combine usage charges with recurring fees, subscriptions, or seat-based pricing.

What does Younium support for usage-based pricing and billing?

Younium provides a complete end-to-end solution for monetizing products and services based on customer consumption. Businesses can charge for any measurable unit, such as API calls, transactions, storage, messages, hours, or seats, and accurately capture, price, and bill usage at scale.

Younium supports three usage calculation methods:

  • Sum – Aggregates all usage during a billing period and applies the configured price.
  • Average – Calculates the average usage over a billing period and applies the configured price.
  • Max – Uses the highest recorded usage during a billing period and applies the configured price.

To support different business requirements, Younium also offers pre-processing rules that allow usage data to be transformed before pricing and billing calculations are applied.

Usage data can be imported manually in the Younium application, uploaded via CSV files using customer identifiers, or aggregated automatically through the Younium API.

How do I go from product setup to order activation?

  • Create a product type with any product functionality
  • Define a price list price and the product the exist in your product library.
  • Sell your subscriptions
  • Create a order with a account and product type usage.
  • On the order you then use the established price list price or create a custom price point and the activate the order
Can we apply customer-specific billing logic without changing the core pricing setup?

Yes. Younium supports preprocessing rules that let you apply customer-specific transformations such as grouping, adjustments, or custom calculations to usage data before it reaches the billing engine. This means RevOps teams can handle one-off commercial agreements or edge cases without touching the underlying product or price list configuration.

Connectors & API

Connect with product analytics, CRM, ERP, and BI systems to bridge operational and financial data.

Our connectors hub brings together all the integrations you need to streamline your subscription business. No matter your setup, Younium makes it easy to connect, automate, and scale.

 

How does Younium ensure usage data is matched to the right charge when a customer has multiple usage products?

Younium matches incoming usage data to the correct charge using identifiers — including custom fields that map to the customer's account or order line. Even when a single customer has multiple active usage products, the matching logic ensures each unit of consumption is attributed to the right charge before invoicing. This eliminates manual mapping and reduces billing errors for RevOps teams managing complex accounts.

Can Younium support hybrid pricing and connected systems?

Yes. Younium supports hybrid pricing models, allowing you to combine usage-based charges with fixed recurring fees, subscriptions, or seat-based pricing on the same order. This means billing teams can manage flat platform fees and variable consumption charges without splitting orders across systems or doing manual reconciliation. All charges are consolidated into one invoice per billing cycle.

Younium also supports integrations through connectors and APIs, helping you connect product analytics, CRM, ERP, and BI systems. This makes it easier to bridge operational and financial data, automate usage flows, and scale your subscription business.