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A go-live readiness checklist to validate your Metronome billing integration before launching in production.

Validate usage and metering

Invoice accuracy starts with usage ingestion. Verifying and matching required usage event fields to active billable metrics ensures customers are charged what they used. Verify and check that:

Confirm pricing and product setup

Pricing accuracy is critical. Double-check that rate cards and overrides in production reflect your intended setup so invoices remain consistent and predictable. Verify and check that:

Provision customers and contracts

Customers must exist in Metronome and be linked to contracts for billing to start. This mapping ensures all usage is attributed to the right account with the right pricing. Verify and check that:

Verify invoicing and payment flows

Customers expect smooth, accurate billing. Confirm invoices and payments are flowing correctly before launch. Verify and check that:

Secure production environment

Before launch, ensure that you’re running against production credentials, not sandbox. Using the correct API tokens gives you the foundation for secure, auditable billing that finance can reconcile and trust. Verify and check that:

Configure webhooks and API error handling

Billing is only reliable if your system knows when things go wrong or statuses change. Webhooks keep your systems in sync (invoice finalization, alert triggers), and retry/backoff/error-handling on API calls ensures no usage or revenue is lost. Verify and check that:

Set up monitoring

You can’t improve what you can’t see. Alerts keep you ahead of customer balance issues. Verify and check that:

Configure data export

Data Export provides an auditable record of invoices, usage, and customer data outside Metronome. Enabling it ensures finance and RevOps can reconcile billing independently. Verify and check that:

Run final end-to-end test

Finally, simulate one end-to-end cycle in production. This gives confidence that invoices, totals, and payments line up in the real environment, to avoid exposing customers to errors.