Searches, audits and limits
What the two meters cost, when each is charged, and what happens when an allowance runs out.
Two meters, both of which mean something on their own: how many searches you can run, and how many audits you can produce. Everything else the product does is included.
What is metered
Action | Costs | When it is charged |
|---|---|---|
Business search |
| Once per search, whether it returns forty businesses or four. A search a source blocked is never charged. |
Website audit |
| Once per audit, flat, whatever the site turns out to need. Charged after the work, so a failed audit costs nothing. |
Reviews and rank checks |
| Never charged. |
Score and report |
| Included in the audit that produced them. |
Audits are never automatic. A search finds businesses and pulls their reviews; you decide which of them is worth auditing. That is the whole reason there are two meters instead of one number.
Two buckets
Each meter has a monthly allowance from your plan and anything you bought as a top-up. Usage drains them in that order: the allowance expires monthly, so spending it first wastes nothing, and top-ups never expire. Buy a top-up in March and it is still there in July.
An account with no plan has no allowance at all, so work is refused with a link to choose a plan. A report bought on its own is credited to the purchased bucket, which a monthly reset never clears.
Charged once, even when a job retries
Audits are slow and networks are unreliable, so jobs retry. Every debit carries an idempotency key derived from the work being done, and the ledger rejects a duplicate. A flaky audit that runs three times bills once.
The ledger is the billing record. Your displayed usage is a running total kept in the same transaction as each entry, and a scheduled reconciliation re-derives it from the ledger and reports any disagreement rather than quietly overwriting it.
Running out
When both buckets are empty, work is refused before it starts, with a message, a top-up link and an upgrade link. That is the only point at which a useful error can still reach a human. Work already in flight stops at the stage that runs dry, settles as partial, and keeps everything it produced up to that point.
Nothing is ever billed after the fact. You are emailed at 80% and at 100% of each allowance, so you can buy a top-up before you need it, and your bill is whatever you chose to pay.
Workspaces
Everything a workspace produces is isolated from every other workspace: businesses, audits, reports and usage.