In the Tackle platform you can manually create metering records to submit usage data to the cloud.
Tip
How you use metering depends on your situation. For example, you might be supplementing your own billing system and using Tackle just to bill overage through the cloud. So at the end of the month you gather your usage data from your product and submit it the Tackle Platform as a true-up. In this example, you would:
Choose the listing and contract for this particular buyer
Select the dimension (the trackable metric you define for your product like users, nodes or even overage)
Enter the quantity (amount of the dimension used) from your usage data
Add a timestamp (for true-ups you can use the current time at record creation)
Submit the record.
In Tackle, click Metering in the left menu.
Click Create new record. This displays all of the listings you have available in Tackle.
Click on the listing that corresponds to the usage data you want to submit. You will see all of the contracts available for that listing.
Choose the contract(s) for which you want to add metering records, and click Continue.
For each contract you selected, specify how you want to track usage.
Note: A record belongs to a single contract. You can create multiple records across time for a contract. You can only add one dimension per record, but you can add more than one record to a contract with different dimensions for each.
Select the dimension. This is what you are measuring (like users, hours, nodes or overage). Use the drop-down menu next to Dimension to select an existing dimension. To add a dimension, click Add dimension and in the pop-up enter a short ID for that new dimension.
Select the quantity. This is the amount of the metric used specified under Dimension (for example, 100 users).
Enter a start time. This is the time the usage took place. If you are using this as a true-up, you can select the current time (default).
Enter an end time. This is only necessary if you are billing through Google Cloud, otherwise leave this blank. For Google Cloud, the end time should always be in the past, and the start time should be before the end time.
Click Add (the icon with the plus sign) to add the metering record to the contract. (You must click Add for this dimension to be added to the record.) You can click Delete (the icon with the x) to remove a dimension from a record.
Click Review to see a pop-up with an overview of the records that will be submitted to the cloud provider. Make sure the information is correct and accurate before submitting. After you submit these records, any reverses in charges will have to be made directly with the cloud provider. If you are ready to proceed with billing your buyers, enter the CAPTCHA response and click Confirm.