Every send writes a usage row with a billable quantity and the rate that applied at that moment. A monthly sweep groups unbilled rows by rate-card key, prices them, and creates one itemised invoice — email, texts sent, texts received, call minutes, voicemail transcription — plus a single card-processing fee line.
Also called: what am I paying for · text message costs · usage bill · communication charges · metered billing
- 1Only successful sends are counted; a failed or gated send cost nothing and never appears on a bill.
- 2Rows are grouped by rate-card key and summed by units — segments and minutes, never row counts.
- 3An unpriced usage kind is left unbilled rather than marked billed at zero, so it is picked up once a rate exists.
- 4Rows are marked billed only after the processor accepted the line item, so a crash mid-sweep re-bills nothing and loses nothing.
- 5A dry-run mode computes and returns the exact lines without touching anything.
Texts, calls and emails are billed to us by the carriers continuously, whatever else happens, and the only way that cost comes back is a monthly sweep that bills it on. If the sweep does not run, or runs and quietly bills nothing, the carrier has already been paid and nobody ever asks for the money back. It runs on a schedule, prices each business's usage at that business's own rates and posts it to their subscription — and it can be run as a dry run first, because the alternative to checking is discovering a pricing mistake on a customer's card.
- Opaque communication charges with no breakdown.
- Being billed for failed sends.
- A billing run crashing and either double-charging or losing revenue.
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