API Billing about wicked.haufe.io

[DonMartin76]

Hi Aaron,

Glad wicked has worked out for your needs. Currently, we have no plans on integrating a billing component, but saying that, we explicitly do not rule it out. The obvious part where this could be done is when subscribing to an API.

Measuring usage is also not simple. It may be "simple" for machine to machine communication, but things start to get more difficult when you also have end users in the play, where Kong limits the rate on a per-user basis, and not per application (this is a limitation of Kong currently). This means you will need to do external analytics much like you do with your ELK stack.

To start a discussion though, what would you want to do? What's your vision on this?

/Martin

PS. If you feel inclined to share your configuration of your ELK stack, I would be more than happy to incorporate that into the documentation.

[TESAARON]

We may need to think a bit more on this but I reckon we would want to charge based on plan chosen when you subscribe to a certain API. i.e. gold, silver, bronze plan. Therefore billing is not done by user or application rather by the API and the specific plan for each API.

I suppose the vision would be that once you click on your selected plan, this brings you to a 'payments' page where you need to enter credit card detail etc in order to subscribe to the API and receive your token key.

[DonMartin76]

FWIW, stripe.com looks very promising. That could be something that could be hooked up fairly easily to wicked.