When we migrate a product to UsageBox we follow the same checklist every time. It keeps the team aligned and avoids the last-minute scramble that used to happen before billing cutovers.
Week 1: Inventory and Access
- List every API endpoint and feature that emits billable usage.
- Confirm who owns pricing decisions and who can approve changes.
- Link your Firebase project and create a non-production environment for smoke tests.
We also read through the latest Cloud Run guidance to make sure concurrency and scaling limits line up with expected traffic.
Week 2: Catalog and Plans
- Model products, metrics, and quotas inside the UsageBox dashboard.
- Export current customer plans so we understand grandfathered terms.
- Decide how plan changes will be communicated to existing customers.
Week 3: Ingestion and Guardrails
- Instrument ingestion calls in staging and replay a representative usage sample.
- Set soft and hard limits so runaway scripts cannot surprise customers.
- Enable alerting to Slack or email for threshold and error notifications.
Week 4: Billing Outputs
- Validate invoices, exports, and any downstream workflows like ERP uploads.
- Have support and success run through dispute and credit scenarios.
- Confirm finance agrees with revenue recognition timing and rounding.
By the time we hit production, everyone knows how usage flows from request to invoice. The checklist is boring on purpose, it keeps surprises out of launch week.