Usage data piles up fast, but turning millions of events into accurate invoices shouldn't require building your own billing system. Nue's Usage Accelerator creates a complete pipeline from raw usage data to final invoices, handling data collection, pricing calculations, and everything in between. You can price flexibly without the engineering headaches.
Traditional billing systems work fine for simple monthly subscriptions. Usage-based billing is different.
- Dealing with millions of small transactions instead of one monthly charge
- Usage data often arrives late but must be assigned to the correct billing period
- Pricing varies based on volume tiers, time of day, customer type, or product mix
- Prepaid credits require real-time tracking and overage calculations
- Manual processes become inefficient at scale
Companies end up building custom solutions that create more problems. Engineers create data pipelines that crash under load. Finance teams calculate tiers and credits in spreadsheets. Customers get confusing bills they can't verify, and revenue slips through errors or dropped events.
Nue builds a complete usage billing pipeline through five connected steps that work together automatically.
The Five-Step Processing Pipeline
- Order: Set up pricing models with tags for tiers, volume rates, or complex structures.
- Consume: Collect usage data via CSV or API, turning raw events into billable records.
- Rate: Apply pricing rules based on your tiers and thresholds.
- Bill: Create invoice line items for usage subscriptions.
- Invoice: Combine usage charges with other billing items into customer invoices.
Nue supports three consumption types:
- Overage Usage: Standard usage-based billing.
- Credit: Prepaid credits with allocation rules.
- Credit Burndown: Credit tracking with automatic overage billing.
Each model runs independently on shared infrastructure.
Pricing often depends on multiple factors happening at once. Nue handles volume tiers with graduated rates, time-based pricing for peak periods, product-specific rates, geographic pricing differences, and customer segment pricing. The rating engine processes all factors simultaneously for accurate results every time.
- Complete pipeline from raw data to invoices without custom development
- Real-time credit tracking and overage detection
- Multi-attribute pricing calculations that happen automatically
- Integration with existing usage collection systems
- Streamlined billing cycles that can significantly reduce processing time
You keep your current usage collection setup while Nue handles the complex billing math
Consider an API platform processing high volumes of monthly requests that was previously handling manual billing calculations. With Nue's Usage Accelerator, they could set up hourly API data collection with automatic tiered pricing: first 1M requests at $0.001 each, 1M-10M requests at $0.0008 each, and 10M+ requests at $0.0006 each. Enterprise customers could utilize credit burndown with real-time calculations.
Such implementations typically result in dramatically shortened billing cycles, reduced billing disputes, eliminated revenue leakage, and faster deployment of new pricing models.
Engineering teams stop building and maintaining custom billing pipelines. They can focus on product features instead of wrestling with usage data processing and pricing calculations.
Finance teams get accurate revenue numbers without spreadsheet calculations. Every usage event gets tracked and billed correctly, and disputes drop because customers can verify their bills.
Sales teams can test new pricing models quickly. They adjust to competitors rapidly and structure deals around usage patterns that actually work for customers.
If your business has:
- Consumption-based pricing with complex tier structures
- High-volume usage data that overwhelms current systems
- Metering systems that need billing integration
- Revenue leaking through billing errors or dropped events
Usage Accelerator becomes essential for capturing revenue accurately. It's ideal for SaaS platforms with API pricing, infrastructure providers, telecom companies, or any business where usage pricing gives you a competitive edge. Companies with high volumes of usage events typically see immediate improvements in billing accuracy and team efficiency.
See how Nue's Usage Accelerator turns usage data into accurate invoices without the engineering overhead. Most companies can process usage invoices efficiently within weeks of setup, and Nue handles high volumes while staying fast.
Stop struggling with usage billing and start capturing every dollar of revenue.