Billing

Introduction

Catalyst handles billing for all its services overall, and for all the features in the services that are billable through a monthly billing cycle. There are two different pricing models that you can select from in Catalyst, depending on your requirements and usage.

• Pay-as-you-go Model: Users will be billed for their exact resource usage in all services, post the consumption

• Subscription Model: Users pay a fixed subscription fee in advance and purchase resources worth that amount

You can avail of a free tier allowance in both the pricing models that is refreshed on a monthly basis. The free tier provides you with Catalyst resources for free of cost until you exceed the specified hard limits on the utilization of these resources.

Catalyst monitors your usage and provides you with a consolidated bill for all your projects, that contains a breakdown of the resources you utilized in each feature of each service, along with the charges for the units consumed in both pricing models. The usage here can be regarded as the API calls made or the memory utilized in a specific component, for instance. Some examples include data insertions in the Cloud Scale Data Store, Serverless Function executions, or a file upload operation in the File Store.

Catalyst supports payments made through various payment methods, depending on your Zoho account’s data center and region. For example, for the accounts registered in the US data center, the supported payment methods include credit cards and PayPal accounts. If the account is registered in the IN data center, payment options also include UPI, Netbanking, and debit cards. You can configure your payment method for your Catalyst account for both payment models, and manage your payments and subscriptions from the Zoho Store.

You can keep a track of your resource usage of all projects in an organization, view reports and cost breakdowns, check forecasts, create budgets, and more from the Billing settings in your Catalyst remote console.