Usage and overage

Each plan includes a number of events per billing month. Usage & billing in the organization shows how many you've used, the projection for the period, the overage so far, and dropped and rejected events. Owners and admins can open it.

At the allowance

Overage is off by default. At 100% of the allowance, events are dropped until the next billing period, and the organization is told.

Dropped events:

• aren't billed;
• are counted and shown as dropped;
• get a 200 answer with a dropped count, so the SDKs don't retry them.

Turning overage on

Only the owner can turn overage on, in the Overage card on Usage & billing:

1. Switch on Record and bill events past the allowance.
2. Set a Monthly spending limit in USD. The card shows your plan's rate per extra 1M events.

With overage on, Rabolic accepts events up to:

allowance + spending limit ÷ rate × 1M

For example, on Growth (5M events, $20 per extra 1M), a $100 spending limit accepts up to 10M events in the month. Past that, events are dropped until the next period.

• Overage is charged per event at the plan's rate, so a month's overage never exceeds the spending limit.
• The limit that counts is the highest one in effect during the month.
• Turning overage off clears the spending limit. Turning it on again asks for a limit.
• Overage is billed monthly, on monthly and yearly plans alike.

Yearly plans

Overage on a yearly plan takes one extra step: the owner chooses Authorize charges and authorizes the monthly overage charge on a Dodo Payments checkout page. Overage applies from then on. A month's overage under $1.00 isn't charged.

Notices

Rabolic tells the organization, in the dashboard and by email:

• at 80% and at 100% of the allowance;
• when the spending limit is reached;
• when a project's cap is reached.

The owner chooses which of these usage emails go out, and to whom, under Usage emails.

Project caps

The owner can cap a project's events per billing period: in Usage by project, switch on Limit this project and set a Monthly cap. Events past a project's cap are dropped until the next period, and everyone who opens the project sees that its reports are incomplete.

During the trial

The trial has a hard cap of 250,000 events and no overage. See Trial.