Hard limits | Soft limits | |
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Customers can exceed the defined limit | ❌ | ✅ |
Useful for | 1. Enforcing access in free plans.2. Driving conversions, upsells and expansions. | 1. In enterprise plans, to prevent disruptions to customers’ business - excessive usage is commonly leveraged for discussions with sales, CS and account executives about expansion and increased commitment. 2. When implementing an automatic smart upgrade flow to a higher tier based on customer usage instead of charging for overage - upgrades help increase recurring revenue, where overage charges are less predictable.3. During the initial integration with Stigg - companies that already have soft limits defined today and want to gradually rollout the integration with Stigg, can do so while activating enforcement at a later stage without any additional code changes. |
Soft limit
Advanced usage reset configuration
Example for overriding the plan limit
unarchiveAddon
mutation of Stigg’s GraphQL API.