Commits

overview commits let your customers pre commit to a dollar amount for a defined period (for example, monthly, quarterly, or annual), then burn against that balance as they consume usage and subscription services at the end of each committed period, any unused balance is reconciled and billed to meet the committed amount, and any overage is billed per contracted pricing and incentives this blends predictable revenue with consumption flexibility how it works set up the committed credit pool create a cash type credit pool and mark it as a committed credit pool this flags the pool for committed credit inflows/outflows, end of period under spend handling, and optional rollover behaviors what this means a committed pool holds credits issued from committed credit burndown subscriptions and tracks how they’re burned across services during each committed period the pool records credit inflows/outflows (issue, consume, expire, credit back, roll over, etc ) for full auditability configure the committed credit burndown product create a product with the committed credit burndown revenue model and associate it with a committed cash type credit pool the product controls how committed credits are allocated and reconciled across time core settings enable committed period ramping when enabled, nue automatically splits committed periods into ramp lines by the product’s term dimension (for example, quarterly), issuing a separate committed credit per period rollover unused credits when enabled, the remaining balance at the end of a committed period is billed and rolled over into the next period as a new credit issue committed credits when activating an order when you activate an order that contains a committed credit burndown product, nue provisions credits into the associated committed cash pool the credit’s expiration date defaults to the period end; if rollover is enabled, rollover mechanics issue a new credit for any unused balance into the next period consume committed credits during usage rating and billing for usage products associated with the committed pool, when rating usage, credits are consumed from the pool, and the rated usage is still invoiced according to the product’s billing timing for non usage products (recurring/one time) associated with the committed pool, when invoicing subscriptions, nue consumes from the pool up to the available pool balance, and the invoice is still due in full billing for the committed credit burndown subscription itself is handled in arrears per committed period after the period ends, any unused committed amount will be billed