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Warn customers before they reach a cap or run out

Email the billing contact when usage reaches 50%, 80% and 100% of the spend cap or the prepaid balance. Send each alert once per period.

By Agent Wranglers. Updated .

How to do it

A stop with no warning breaks the customer's product at the worst moment. Check thresholds each time you add usage, or every few minutes in a job. Store which thresholds each customer has passed this period, so a rerun never sends twice. Name the amount used, the cap, the date usage resets and a link to raise the cap or top up. Let customers add their own thresholds and a webhook, so their systems can react. Sign that webhook as Sign every webhook says.

How to check

A test with a cap of 100 USD adds usage in steps to 105 USD. Three emails go out, at 50, 80 and 100 USD. Running the job again sends nothing.

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