Pricing and Managing Plans and Plan Templates - m3ter Documentation

Pricing Editor Overview

In m3ter, you can use the Pricing Editor to quickly price up and review your Plans and Plan Templates:

First, add a Plan or Plan Template.
Second, add the pricing metrics you want to use to price the Plan or Plan Template:
- Add Aggregations for pricing based on metered usage data.
- Add Counters for pricing based on units subscribed to by Accounts.
Configure the exact pricing structure you want to use for charging your end customers who are put on the priced Plan for consuming one of your Products.
Easily review, compare, edit, or duplicate your priced Plans and Plan Templates, which are set out side-by-side in the Pricing Editor.

Tip: Pricing Plan Templates? If you have a Product where you want to charge the same pricing rates for usage for all Accounts that consume the Product but vary the standing charge across different Accounts, you can price up a Plan Template and then quickly create multiple Plans using the template and define specific standing charges for each Plan. For example, this approach is useful if you have a single Product where the end customer accounts that consume the same Product might be placed on different account levels - for example Standard or Premium - and the only difference is that the Premium customer pays a smaller standing charge.

This section lets you review pricing options, explains how to price your Plans or Plan Templates using the Pricing Editor, and how to go on to manage, edit, or duplicate them:

Important! Unit-based pricing using Counters for recurring subscription charges. This section explains how to apply usage-based pricing for Plan Templates and Plans using Aggregations as the pricing metrics. For full details on how to create Counters and use them as the pricing metrics to apply unit-based pricing to Plan Templates and Plans for recurring subscription charges on Accounts, please see the Recurring Charges: Counters section.