Understand Maxio Metering

Use Maxio Metering to track customer activity in Advanced Billing, such as API calls, data transferred, or documents processed, and turn it into usage-based charges on invoices. Use Metering when your pricing depends on measurable customer actions.

How Maxio Metering works

Metering uses two primary objects:

• Stream: Defines the structure of the events your system sends to Maxio.
• Meter: Defines how usage is calculated from events in a Stream.

Events flow into a Stream. Meters read those events and calculate usage values. Those usage values feed billing products on customer subscriptions.

Key capabilities

Maxio Metering allows you to:

• Define your usage schema before sending data
• Ingest high-volume events
• Calculate usage with flexible aggregation
• Segment usage across dimensions
• Connect usage to billing

Prerequisites

Before using Maxio Metering, confirm the following requirements:

• Your site uses Maxio Advanced Billing.
• Your site is US-hosted.
• Metering is enabled for your site.

Contact your Customer Success Manager or Maxio Support to request Metering activation.

When to use Maxio Metering

Use Maxio Metering when your billing model depends on customer activity.

Metering is a good fit when you need:

• Real-time usage ingestion
• Pricing across more than one event property
• Schema-first setup before sending event data
• Pricing changes without changes to your event pipeline

If your team aggregates usage before sending it to Maxio, use the existing usage import or usage submission workflow instead. See Report Product Usage and Allocations.

Related information

Get started by Get Started with Maxio Metering, which walks you through creating a Stream, a Meter, and a test event.

To understand the core Metering objects and how they relate, see Understand Streams, Meters, and Segments.

For a full reference of Metering settings, stream fields, event properties, identifiers, meters, and segments, see Configure Maxio Metering.

To connect a meter to a metered product and its pricing, see Design Your Catalog: Use Metering with Products.