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[plugin] API Billing #340

Closed sonicaghi closed 3 years ago

sonicaghi commented 9 years ago

first version with just a Stripe connection.

jusw85 commented 8 years ago

:+1:

Tieske commented 8 years ago

1) How do your customers typically integrate Gelato with billing? I see that you support dev on boarding which is great to get people on and start playing with the API however our data providers charge us for accessing data and so for the customer to use real data they would need to purchase a credit package and be assigned an API key. I am looking at Chargify as a possible billing solution, do you have anyone else integrating Gelato with Chargify or have any other reference cases I can use?

Billing plugin for Kong people asking for that in Gelato support cc @nikz

mytototo commented 7 years ago

Any news regarding an open-source billing plugin for Kong?

TimDaub commented 7 years ago

Just wanted to say that we researched using Kong for our API, but lack of payment integration is a show-stopper for us :/

mytototo commented 7 years ago

Agreed... Even if this can be considered as a portal feature and not really a gateway one, this is definitely something missing in Kong.

javeme commented 7 years ago

We need this feature.

TimMcCauley commented 7 years ago

How are Kong users dealing with the issue currently?

dobrych commented 7 years ago

For simple pricing cases, it's enough to set rate limits and analyze logs against specific usage patterns. It's possible to feed Kong's logs into ElasticSearch (for example) and do periodic processing to determine usage and trigger actions. Alternatively, it's possible to derive metrics from logs into some time-series DB too and trigger actions to produce invoices out of it.

Let's discuss what would be most common pricing schemes because billing is always about usage->$ formula.

tumluliu commented 7 years ago

thanks a lot for your hints! @dobrych

TimMcCauley commented 7 years ago

@dobrych the API we are currently working on will have different payment plans. As you already mentioned we are planning to restrict a user of a plan to a specfic ACL (most basic use case: n requests for x $). When the user signs up (probably going to use gelato) he/she will have to either pay a monthly one-time fee or subscribe to the plan. I was wondering which service/plugin Kong users would suggest to achieve this payment step? Is anyone consuming chargify as an API?