How to Report Usage to StripeHow to implement robust usage reporting with exactly once guarantees

Usage-based pricing is becoming popular among SaaS products, allowing customers greater control over their expenses while simplifying customer lifecycle management through organic growth. To adopt usage-based billing with Stripe, you must meter your customer's usage and report it on their Stripe subscription. However, reporting usage to Stripe comes with its own challenges such as rate limits, errors, and exactly once delivery. This blog post provides a step-by-step guide to building robust usage reporting with Stripe, perfect for engineers tasked with integrating Stripe metered billing. The key points include handling Stripe API rate limits, managing billing cycles, delivering usage exactly once, and reporting usage on Subscription Items. A robust usage reporting solution should ensure delivery of usage once and exactly once to Stripe, report frequently to minimize usage drift between billing cycles, retry in the case of errors or rate limits, and map meters to SubscriptionItems.