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Manage your customer relationships and optimize their billing experience with Metronome’s comprehensive customer lifecycle tools. From initial provisioning to ongoing optimization, this section provides everything you need to deliver exceptional customer experiences while scaling your billing effectively with Metronome. 
What you’ll cover in Customers & Billing   
This section covers the complete customer journey and billing management, including: 
Customer Management : Provision customers, manage lifecycles, and control product access 
Customer Experience : Build dashboards, set spend controls, and provide transparency 
Fraud Protection : Implement spend thresholds and entitlement controls 
Notifications : Set up alerts and monitoring for proactive customer management 
 
Key topics  
Manage customers  
Handle the complete customer lifecycle from onboarding to renewal: 
Provision Customers : Create customer objects, configure contracts, and set up ingest aliases 
Customer Lifecycle : Manage renewals, upsells, downgrades, and contract transitions 
Customer Tiers : Organize customers by tiers and manage different access levels 
Product Access : Control which products and features customers can access 
Renewals : Automate and manage customer contract renewals 
 
Optimize customer experience  
Deliver exceptional customer experiences with transparency and control: 
Customer Dashboards : Build API-powered dashboards showing usage, spend, and commitments 
Spend Controls : Set customer spending limits and payment gates 
Customer Controls : Provide customers with self-service billing management 
Balance Tracking : Show remaining balances and commitment usage 
Reporting : Deliver comprehensive usage and billing reports 
 
Manage fraud and entitlements  
Protect your business while maintaining customer trust: 
Fraud Prevention : Implement spend thresholds and payment gates 
Entitlement Controls : Manage product access and feature gating 
Spend Monitoring : Track unusual usage patterns and spending 
Access Management : Control customer permissions and product availability 
 
Set up notifications  
Stay informed and proactive with comprehensive alerting: 
Create Alerts : Set up notifications for spend, usage, and commitment thresholds 
Enforce Thresholds : Automatically trigger actions when limits are reached 
Lifecycle Monitoring : Track customer contract states and transitions 
Webhook Integration : Connect alerts to your existing notification systems 
 
Getting started  
Ready to optimize your customer billing experience? Start with provisioning your first customer  or explore customer dashboard examples  to see how to provide transparency and control to your customers.