Product Models, Pricing & Metering
Product Models
Some billing providers offer recurring billing based on a fixed time limit, and many aren’t capable of responding to the never ending month-to-month “evergreen” Web 2.0 billing model. Others force you into a fixed set of business models. With Metanga we offer both a library of product models and the ability to create your own product models. And we make both incredibly easy.
As fast as your marketing team can think them up, you're able to make combinations of base recurring charges, varied algorithms and transactional elements billable. You can capture, rate and price event-based transactional and metered data to support advertising, telecom, media, software, cloud, financial, smart grid and traditional commerce sales.
Metanga Supports:
- Single charges
- Recurring charges
- Event based charges
- Granular metered charges
- Tiered charges
- Bundled charges
- Prorated charges
- Evergreen contracts
- Flexible product models
Pricing
Should you sell online, Metanga inludes integrated online product catalogs and checkout with pricing, bundling, offers & promotional codes and can be administered without any programming.
Promotional offers, bundles and completely new pricing can be updated on the fly providing your marketing and product teams incredible flexibility. The new items, images and offer elements are passed dynamically to your online product catalog all without the need for IT, or professional services.
Since the catalog is dynamically smart, when customers enter affiliate discounts, offers or promotional codes, specific pricing & product data can be rendered for unique customer groups.
Metanga Enables:
- Offers
- Promo codes
- Combinations
- Bundles
Metering
Whether it be from apps sold, downloads, clicks, bandwidth, users, seats, storage, Call Detail Records (CDRs), or some other data element or combination, Metanga is designed to price your metered data.
You can bring metered data into Metanga two ways. First you can leverage our APIs to import ongoing transactions directly into the rating engine. Second, can manually upload files of transactions you'd for which you'd like to bill.
In many cases businesses may need to mediate transactional data prior to introducing it to the billing engine. At Metanga we focus on being "beyond billing" and can assist you in the mediation of your data sources as well as provide one of our resource partners to assist.
Metering & Mediation Partners
Correlsense's Sharepath provides transaction metering to support Metanga's IT billing and charge-back offerings. Where other tools treat servers, storage facilities and virtual machines as the atomic charge units, Sharepath meters the drivers of the utilization of every shared resource in the network, both physical and virtual. Sharepath traces every business transactions from click in the browser throughout and back-across every hop in the data center. The tracing maintains complete business context, allowing precise cost allocation, per every shared resource, by individual users, departments, and specific applications.
Coroware is a global software and services provider offering IT integration and mediation support for telepresence and conferencing deployments of Metanga.