A year ago, we released the recurring payment module to the customer dashboard, which allows your customers to sign up for plans and instantly receive the license key.
This has now been extended with the option to record usage in addition to the subscription fee. It is quite useful if you offer some features on a usage-based basis (eg. yearly report generation in an accounting software). It can also be used to to charge for API calls or other types of method calls.
In .NET, usage can be tracked with a one line of code:
var res = Subscription.RecordUsage(auth, new RecordUsageModel { Amount = 1, ProductId = 3349, Key = "CMXKC-GUQRW-EJUGS-RRPUR" });
It quite easy to get started. Please check out this article for more information. You always welcome to reach out to us should you have any questions 🙂
A popular licensing model amongst software vendors is subscription-based licensing. It is generally seen as a smaller risk for the customer than traditional one-time payments (eg. which normally require a large commitment), but at the same time it provides recurring revenues for the software vendor.
You can get started with recurring payments by visit our help pages.
Features
Recurring payments are implemented as a part of the customer portal. Thanks to this update, customers can not only manage their existing licenses but also subscribe for new ones.
Everything related to payments, plans and subscriptions is managed by Stripe, so if you’re already using Stripe, it’s quite easy to get started with the new recurring payments feature. If you do not have Stripe, it’s quite easy to get started. A tutorial can be found here.
In addition to recurring payments, the customer portal makes it possible to use user account authentication, described in the previous article.
Screenshots
Example when the customer has subscribed to a new plan:
The new license will show up on the home page of the customer:
Reviewing a license key and the subscription it is associated with:
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