Managing usage-based pricing models just got more flexible. We're excited to announce general availability for overage charges on metered features and credits in Stigg!

Until now, reaching a usage cap or running out of pre-purchased credits typically meant blocking user access or requiring an immediate plan upgrade. With this release, you can allow customers to seamlessly exceed their base allocations or credit limits and bill them automatically for any overage accrued.

🆕 What’s new?

You can now configure overage billing rules directly within your price models for both metered features and credit balances via the Stigg Console, API, and billing integrations.

• Metered Feature Overages: Define overage tiers and unit rates when customers exceed included feature entitlements (e.g., charge $0.05 per extra API call or $10 per additional GB of storage beyond their base allocation).
• Credit Balance Overages: Allow customer usage to continue after their credit balance reaches zero, charging per unit or per credit drawdown in overage mode.
• Automatic Invoicing: Accrued overages are automatically calculated, aggregated, and billed at the end of the billing cycle (or upon subscription renewal) via your connected payment gateway.

💡 Why it matters

• Frictionless Customer Experience: Avoid hard paywalls that interrupt your users' product workflows when they exceed their limits.
• Monetize Spikes in Usage: Capture revenue from high-usage periods and enterprise power users without forcing them through manual plan upgrades.
• Granular Pricing Control: Mix base recurring fees, included usage thresholds, credit pools, and overage rates to construct predictable yet flexible hybrid pricing strategies.

⚒️ Get started

Using the Stigg app:

1. Navigate to a paid plan and edit it.
2. Under the Price section, click on Edit.
3. In the wizard, navigate to the Overage charges section and select the metered feature or credit currency that you'd like to bill customers for.
4. Save and publish the changes.

For API-first workflows, configure overage tiers via GraphQL/REST, or just use the Stigg AI terminal with natural language.

🍿 See it in action