Live video usage and your spend cap
Live rooms and webinars are billed by usage. What is included, how the meter works, and how the cap keeps a long session from surprising you.
- billing
- live
- usage
Everything else in Drry is a flat monthly price. Live video is not, because a room with forty people in it for two hours costs real money while it is happening. So it is metered, honestly, with a cap you control.
How the meter counts
Participant hours, for rooms: every person in the room counts, every hour. A one hour call with five people uses five.
Viewer hours, for webinars: every viewer counts, every hour. Forty people watching for thirty minutes uses twenty.
What is included
Creator: 20 participant hours a period. Roughly two and a half hours of calls with eight people, or 45 minutes with 25.
Growth: 50 participant hours, plus 150 webinar viewer hours.
Past the allowance
Two possible answers, and you choose which. With overage off, usage stops at what your plan includes: a room will not open. With overage on, sessions carry on and are charged against a spend cap you set, anywhere from $5 to $500. You are warned as you approach both the allowance and the cap.
What this covers
The same spend cap also covers marketing emails past your included sends, on the plans that have overage. One cap, one number to watch.
Common questions
Does an empty room cost anything?
No. Nobody in the room means no participant hours.
Do I count as a participant in my own room?
Yes. You are a person in the room and the underlying cost does not know you are the host.
Why is there a cap at all?
Because we pay the video bill as it happens and collect at the end of the month. The cap bounds that for both of us, and it is the reason there is no upfront commitment for live video.