Sample data from the demo tenant. The components above are the ones the product actually uses.
A BI tool can draw this. It cannot tell you what any of it costs you, or open a figure to find the event that caused it.
Every raw event is kept, queryable, for as long as your tier retains it. Group by account, event type or day over hundreds of millions of rows and get an answer while you are still looking at the screen.
A figure you cannot open is a figure you cannot trust. Click any amount through to the events behind it, and any event through to the arithmetic behind that.
Each account carries an end-of-month projection from its own run rate. Bill shock is a surprise; a projection is a conversation you can have on the 12th.
Margin-negative routes, spend spikes that look like fraud, supplier rates that moved mid-month. Denominated in money, because that is the unit you make decisions in.
This is the whole calculation for one event: what was recorded, what it was rounded to, what minimum applied, which tariff line matched and why.
Plan version Wholesale 2024.04, matched on destination
Recorded quantity
619.00seconds
619 seconds
Rounded up to the 1 seconds increment
619.00seconds
ceil(619 ÷ 1) × 1
No change at this step.
Minimum billable quantity
619.00seconds
max(619, 30)
The rounded quantity already meets the minimum.
No change at this step.
Rate applied — 447
£0.2600
619 × 0.00042
Longest matching prefix on this plan is "447".
Rounded to four decimal places
£0.2600
half-even(0.25998)
Banker's rounding, applied once at the final amount. Currency GBP.
2 lines on this plan are prefixes of 447322157. The longest one wins.
4473 characters£0.00042 / secondApplied442 characters£0.00018 / secondShorter prefixEvery rated row stores enough to reproduce its own charge. That is what makes an invoice defensible.
Each one names the money at stake and links straight to the events behind it.
Route 234 went margin-negative at 14:02
Nigeria traffic is selling at £0.00310 per second against a supplier cost of £0.00348. 1,284 calls have completed since the crossover.
Premium SMS volume is 320% above normal
AlphaComms sent 18,402 premium-band messages in the last hour against a rolling average of 4,380. This pattern matches SMS pumping.
Northbound Carrier Services changed a rate mid-month
UK mobile premium moved from £0.000870 to £0.000940 per second on 12 May without notice. Reconciliation has already flagged the difference.
One command and the charts above fill with your data instead of ours.