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Handling of subscriptions with consumptions

All the examples above dealt with a subscription article of 'normal' usage. Now, Blue Chameleon also handles more complicated subscriptions, that is to say ones with an associated consumption : clients subscribe to a service that is invoiced according to their use of it. For instance, how much time they used it, or the amount of data they may have downloaded...
 
While creating the subscription article, we now either pick, for 'Usage type:' :

• Subscription with variable consumption : client must pay a price for the subscription itself and also the consumption s/he makes of it. Or :
• Variable consumption only : only the consumption will be paid for.

The image below shows the creation of a subscription article with variable consumption, for instance a hotline where clients can call to have dedicated advice :

Figure 3.69: Creating an subscription article that will handle both a subscription fee (10$) and a consumption (0.1$ per minute).

It can be seen that first, the cost of the subscription itself is chosen just as for a 'normal' subscription ; then, on next screen, the quantity unit type is picked : it is the time span by which the subscription is counted (seconds, minutes, hours, or multiple of bytes), and for a specified unit price. In this example, the 'Recipe Advice Line' cost is calculated for each minute, each minute being charged 0.1 $.

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