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How to Implement Usage-Based Billing

Accounting Component provides the ability to set up usage based billing through the data mediation component. To implement usage-based billing while monitoring user dependent metrics, perform the following tasks:

1. Create an application metric, as explained in How to Create an Application Metric.
2. Create a service definition, as explained in Create a Service Definition.
3. Create the users and account, as explained in Create the Users and Account.
4. Create a data mediation profile, as explained in Add a New Profile.
5. Define aggregation logic, as explained in Define Aggregation Logic.
6. Upload import usage data, as explained in Data Import.
7. Aggregate usage data for the fiscal period, as explained in Start Data Aggregation.
8. Review the invoice details to see if the usage-based invoice has been processed correctly for the user or account.

   To view the details, including history, for an invoice, navigate the Aggregation Summary pages for the account of interest. Alternatively, click Accounting, Account Management and click the account's action icon named View Invoice History for account name.