Usage tracking

[Ali md Moussawi]

hi there,

I want to get the usage of a user on daily, weekly, and monthly base . How to do it using kill Bill APIs 

thanks in advance,

Ali Moussawi.

[Pierre-Alexandre Meyer]

Hi Ali,

Usage APIs documentation can be found here: https://killbill.github.io/slate/#usage-retrieve-usage-for-a-subscription

Kind regards,

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[Ali md Moussawi]

I read the documentation and I didn't find my needs because of that I asked here.

[Pierre-Alexandre Meyer]

Hi Ali,

As you can see, the API accepts startDate and endDate parameters. By tweaking these values, you can get usage on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.

I hope this helps!

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[Ali md Moussawi]

but this is not efficient Imagine I want to get the daily usage I have to call the usage API of 30 times.

[Pierre-Alexandre Meyer]

Hi Ali,

Keep in mind that Kill Bill isn't supposed to be used as a metering system. As a matter of fact, we encourage to record already rolled-up usage data points in Kill Bill, and keep the highly granular data in a dedicated metering system.

Kind regards,

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[sh...@methodmaker.co.nz]

Hi Guys,

There is an outstanding usage API enhancement request to get the API to return daily totals for a given date range. See https://github.com/killbill/killbill/issues/1756 for more information.

[stephane brossier]

We have already released our version 0.24.0 - any increment 0.24.x needs to keep the java api compatible, so we can't simply add this new apis. The easiest option would be to implement an endpoint in a plugin, and do the query against the Kill Bill core usage table. We typically don't encourage doing this, but if you are stuck and this is important for your use case, this is the best option. 

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[Shaun Forgie]

HI Stephane,

Ok we will look to create a usage plugin that deals with returning daily usage records.

One of the other issues we have is that we would like to deal with entering retrospective daily usage records for previous billing periods. An example to clarify - 2 usage units were recorded for a given day last month. The billing cycle for that subscription has run and those 2 days have been charged for on an invoice item. 3 usage units were missed or not received until the next billing period had started. We would like to record the additional 3 usage units against the same day for the previous month. Obviously the usage will be charged for in the current billing cycle. But...how does the API deal with this? Ideally it would show billed and unbilled usage for a given day yes?

Rgs

Shaun

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