Controlling Billing Transactions
A transcription request can be associated with a specific billable entity by using the tag billing
=ENTITY
, where ENTITY
is the name or number of the billing group with which you want to associate this transcription event:
curl -F file=@sample1.wav \ -F token=your-token-here \ -F billing=joeuser \ https://vcloud.vocitec.com/transcribe
In this example, the usage costs associated with the transcription of sample1.wav
would be associated with the billing group joeuser
in your monthly report.
Important
As a general rule, avoid commas when specifying billing entities unless you are trying to collate or count large numbers of unique substrings.
Billing tag strings that contain a comma are split into separate strings (name
and acctstring
) around the first comma. The acctstring
field can be used for unique substrings, such as phone numbers or user account IDs, for further analysis.