Customer Portal Usage Information
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For usage-based and metered plans, the customer portal shows customers their current consumption alongside their subscriptions — so they can see exactly what they're drawing down and what they're being billed for, with no need to call in. That transparency reduces "bill shock," cuts support contacts, and helps customers self-manage before they hit a limit.
Each metered charge appears in a Current period usage card with a line per charge — the charge name and a used / included reading in its unit of measure (for example 1,200 / 5,000 API calls), plus a progress bar showing how much of the allowance is consumed. The card header shows the billing period and days remaining in it. Charges without an included allowance are labelled Pay-as-you-go (the consumed total shows with no bar), and a charge consumed past its limit is flagged as overage.
Usage is metered and rated by your billing system and read back through the platform's usage API, then surfaced on the customer's subscription view — customers never see raw meter events, only the rolled-up drawdown. If a subscription has no metered charges, the card shows a quiet empty state ("No metered usage on this subscription"); if the usage read fails it shows "Usage data unavailable" rather than a wrong number. Whether the usage card appears on a given portal page is a page-configuration choice, so you decide where — and for which audiences — consumption is shown.
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