Metering in GCP Marketplace with Clazar

Last updated: August 7, 2025

Accurate measurement and billing are essential for monitoring customer usage and generating invoices within the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Marketplace. Clazar offers a streamlined solution for vendors to incorporate metering features, enabling precise tracking and reporting of how buyers utilize their services.

This guide serves as a resource for understanding and leveraging Clazar’s metering capabilities in collaboration with GCP, helping sellers efficiently monetize their SaaS products.

🧠 Key Concepts

🔹 Metering

The process of collecting and recording buyer usage data—such as API request count, data storage consumed, or other usage indicators. It enables accurate quantification of how buyers use a product.

🔹 Usage Metrics

These define the pricing structure of a SaaS product. Metrics can include:

  • Data transfer volume

  • Compute usage

  • Any other measurable cost-driving dimensions

🔹 Quantity

Represents the numerical value of buyer usage. This may be:

  • Number of API calls

  • Gigabytes of storage

  • Compute time (in hours)

Note: Quantity can be a decimal value, depending on what was specified during the listing submission process.

ℹ Prerequisites

Before using Clazar's metering features, ensure the following:

  • Familiarity with your GCP listing to associate metering records

  • Buyer-specific usage metrics and quantities are available

  • You have access credentials for Clazar platform or API

📘 Integration Testing During Listing Submission

When submitting a listing to GCP, there is a mandatory 72-hour integration testing window where test metering records must be submitted.

✅ Clazar handles this process automatically.
No manual action is required from sellers.

❗ Caution

Once metering records are submitted, they cannot be reversed.

📊 Viewing Metering Records

To view metering records submitted for GCP:

  1. Navigate to Metering.

  2. Select GCP from the top-right corner.

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🧾 Submitting Metering Records

Follow these steps to submit new metering records:

  1. Go to Metering → click + New Records

  2. Select the listing to be metered

  3. Select the buyer(s) (contracts) to meter

  4. Select dimensions and quantity for each buyer

  5. Review the metering record(s)

  6. Type CONFIRM and click Submit

⚡ 1-Click Port

If you're already selling on GCP Marketplace, you can port previous records of metered usage to Clazar with a single click.

📘 External Resource

To learn more about GCP metering:

🔗 Visit the official Google Cloud documentation

❓ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

What are "Usage Metrics"?

Usage Metrics are the elements that shape your product’s pricing model. They include measurable usage types like:

  • API calls

  • Compute hours

  • Data transfer

These metrics allow accurate billing and reporting.

Why is it important to track "Quantity" accurately?

Quantity reflects the exact level of buyer activity. It may be measured in units such as:

  • API calls

  • GBs of storage

  • Hours of compute

Precise tracking of quantity ensures accurate billing and buyer trust.

Can metering records be reversed?

❌ No.
Once submitted, metering records cannot be reversed. Always verify the data before submission.

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