Case Study · Startups
An infrastructure platform billing on API consumption
The company priced entirely on API usage, but its metering pipeline and Stripe billing configuration disagreed often enough that customers disputed invoices, and finance couldn't produce a defensible ASC 606 revenue schedule from the resulting data.
- Industry
- Startups
- Platforms
- Usage & Consumption Billing · Revenue Recognition
- Delivery
- Phased, fixed scope
- Usage capture
- Idempotent and auditable
What Changed
What the system does differently
What the engagement actually left in place, stated as capability rather than as a figure we cannot put a client's name behind.
- Delivered
- Idempotent and auditable
- Delivered
- Self-served from billed data
- Delivered
- Tied to verified usage
Usage capture
Customer disputes
ASC 606 schedule
The Approach
How we ran it
The sequence we followed, from discovery through to a system the finance team trusts.
- Rebuilt the usage-metering pipeline to guarantee idempotent, auditable event capture
- Redesigned Stripe's metered billing configuration to match the corrected metering data exactly
- Built a customer-facing usage dashboard so disputes could be self-served against the same source of truth as billing
- Established a revenue recognition schedule tied directly to verified usage events rather than estimated averages
“Billing disputes used to absorb real support time. Now customers check the same dashboard we bill from.”
Co-founder & Head of Operations
Services Used
What this engagement drew on
The practice areas behind the outcome above.
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