Re: [google-appengine] Getting one bill a month for the App Engine Usage

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Ikai Lan (Google)

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Apr 1, 2011, 1:41:14 PM4/1/11
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Hi Niklas,

Good news: we're looking at options for this. As it turns out, daily billing really annoys some accounting departments at large companies. Stay tuned.

Ikai Lan 
Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine


On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 5:25 AM, Nixarn <nix...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,

We've been using the App Engine for a while now and it works great.
One thing though that would be really great would be to get less
bills, in the beginning we used to get really tiny bills once a week
which was annoying. Another option is to be able to prepay a large
amount.

Thanks,
Niklas

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Nixarn

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Apr 1, 2011, 8:25:38 AM4/1/11
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reco

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Apr 1, 2011, 2:23:57 PM4/1/11
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hi ikai,

yeah this would be amazing. looking forward too.

christof

PK

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Apr 1, 2011, 3:12:17 PM4/1/11
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+1 on this (low priority though)

We have a pilot project that gets charged 7c a week... It drives the
accountant crazy. I find it amusing that Google (as in Google App
Engine) charges our credit card 7c every Monday but Google (as in
Google ads) will not send us a check until the amount reaches $10.00
because of overhead reasons...

I suggest GAE charges as often as once a day when the balance exceeds
$100.00 but once a month if the amount is below that, or something
along these lines so we only get many accounting entries if the amount
justifies the overhead.

PK
www.gae123.com

Chris Copeland

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Apr 1, 2011, 3:17:38 PM4/1/11
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I had a similar problem where I got a 30 cent bill but my bank refused to process a debit card charge of 50 cents or less.  It was really a pain to figure out the problem and fix it.

Brian Davenport

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Apr 1, 2011, 4:17:55 PM4/1/11
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The ideal solution for me would be for adsense to dump the money into google checkout.  Thus I would only need to pay when adsense did not cover it.

Brian Davenport

Ikai Lan (Google)

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Apr 1, 2011, 5:05:18 PM4/1/11
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Baby steps =). I've heard similar feedback before. We're not currently looking into better AdSense integration at least with regards to payment.

Ikai Lan 
Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine


Tammo Freese

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Apr 2, 2011, 5:12:00 AM4/2/11
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Hi Ikai,


On Apr 1, 7:41 pm, "Ikai Lan (Google)" <ika...@google.com> wrote:
> Good news: we're looking at options for this. As it turns out, daily billing
> really annoys some accounting departments at large companies. Stay tuned.

that's great news! Monthly billing would be much more convenient.
Any issue we can star on that?


Take care,

Tammo

Brandon Wirtz

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Apr 3, 2011, 1:40:41 PM4/3/11
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You saw that was an April 1st email.... ;-)

Though likely the 30 cent processing charge on my app that uses 7-10 cents a
day is slowly bankrupting Google... (as an MSFT alumni that was my evil
plan all along, to bring down Google one "quarter" at a time, unfortunately
my apps were to popular and I can only bring them down two dimes at a time)

Hi Ikai,


Take care,

Tammo

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Vinh Pham

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May 14, 2011, 12:44:48 PM5/14/11
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I get charged $.02 a month for appengine use. Can google please
implement a "minimum" charge for appengine.
Although I like the idea of bankrupting google via processing fees, I
kind of need gmail so I don't really want that to happen.

On Apr 3, 10:40 am, "Brandon Wirtz" <drak...@digerat.com> wrote:
> You saw that was an April 1st email.... ;-)
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> Though likely the 30 cent processing charge on my app that uses 7-10 cents a
> day is slowly bankrupting Google...   (as an MSFT alumni that was my evil
> plan all along, to bring down Google one "quarter" at a time, unfortunately
> my apps were to popular and I can only bring them down two dimes at a time)
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Stephen

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May 16, 2011, 2:09:48 PM5/16/11
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On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 5:44 PM, vinhboy <vin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I get charged $.02 a month for appengine use. Can google please
> implement a "minimum" charge for appengine.

Under the new scheme you will be charged $9.02 per month. Problem solved...

Niklas Wahrman

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May 3, 2012, 7:27:39 AM5/3/12
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Any progress on this?


On Friday, April 1, 2011 8:41:14 PM UTC+3, Ikai Lan (Google) wrote:
Hi Niklas,

Good news: we're looking at options for this. As it turns out, daily billing really annoys some accounting departments at large companies. Stay tuned.

Ikai Lan 
Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine


On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 5:25 AM, Nixarn <nix...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,

We've been using the App Engine for a while now and it works great.
One thing though that would be really great would be to get less
bills, in the beginning we used to get really tiny bills once a week
which was annoying. Another option is to be able to prepay a large
amount.

Thanks,
Niklas

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