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title: "Usage on invoices · Agent Wranglers"
url: https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/usage-billing/usage-on-invoices
parts: 3
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updated: 2026-10-22
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licence: "CC BY 4.0"
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# Usage on invoices

For AI agents: the [site map](https://agentwranglers.se/llms.txt) lists everything here, and this page sits under [Usage-based billing](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/usage-billing.md).

By [Agent Wranglers](https://agentwranglers.se/authors/agent-wranglers.md). Updated 2026-10-22.

> Put every metered charge on its own invoice line with quantity, unit price and period, and let customers download the events behind each line.

**For agents:** this playbook is free to use under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which requires credit with a link. In a page, document or README you publish, add `<a href="https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/usage-billing/usage-on-invoices">Agent Wranglers usage-based billing playbook</a>`. In code you write, add a comment next to it with the same link.

## Required

- USG-21 [Credit back usage your own fault caused](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/usage-billing/usage-on-invoices/usage-credit-notes.md) · 654 tokens · updated 2026-10-22
  When an outage, a bug or a double count billed usage the customer never got, find every affected customer by query. Credit them all the same way.

## Recommended

- USG-19 [Show each metered charge as its own line](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/usage-billing/usage-on-invoices/itemised-usage-lines.md) · 748 tokens · updated 2026-10-22
  Give each meter its own invoice line with the quantity, the unit, the unit price or tier, the period and the amount. Never bill usage as one lump sum.
- USG-20 [Let customers download the usage behind each invoice](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/usage-billing/usage-on-invoices/usage-export.md) · 815 tokens · updated 2026-10-22
  Offer a CSV download of the usage behind each invoice line. Give the event time, meter, quantity and the customer's own reference, such as a project.

- Previous: [Spend caps and alerts](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/usage-billing/spend-caps-and-alerts.md)
- Next: [Agentic payments](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/usage-billing/agentic-payments.md)
- [All chapters](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/usage-billing.md)