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Halyard

Changelog / October 2026

Usage-based billing is here

NewShipped 3 days ago by Maya Okafor

Charge for what your customers actually use. Usage-based billing lets you attach a meter to any price: API calls, seats, gigabytes or anything else you count. Halyard totals the events, rates them and puts them on the next invoice.

API calls1.44M
Seats38
Storage212 GB

Send events with POST /v2/usage, or let our Stripe sync bring them in. Invoices now show projected usage before the period closes, so nobody is surprised.

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  1. Tom Reyes

    This is the one we've been waiting for. Does metering work with our existing Stripe price IDs, or do we need to recreate every product?

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    1. Maya Okafor · edited

      Existing price IDs work. Halyard maps each meter to a price, so you only add a meter key:

      { "price": "price_1PqVb2", "meter": "api_calls" }

      Nothing changes for customers on flat plans.

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    2. Tom Reyes

      Perfect, thanks @maya. Migrating our first plan this afternoon.

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  2. Inès Laurent

    We moved two customers over this morning. The invoice preview showing projected usage is a lovely touch.

    One request: could the CSV export include the meter name? Finance asked within the hour.

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    1. Kenji Mori

      Seconding this. Also, is there a way to backfill usage from before the switch?

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  4. Kenji Mori

    Heads-up for anyone on the API: GET /v2/usage returns timestamps in UTC. Our dashboard was a day off until I noticed:

    $events = Halyard::usage()->since(now('UTC')->startOfMonth());
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  5. Maya Okafor

    Thanks, everyone. Meter names in the CSV export ship next week. Backfill is in beta: reply here and I'll switch it on for your account.

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