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Payment

Overview

AHI offer two primary solutions for our partners to pay for AHI services, depending on what the specific commercial contract is in place between the partner and AHI. These are:

  1. Pay After - where a per period tally of scans is used to determine the invoice at the end of the period, similar to the way utility services are billed.
  2. Pay Before - where payment is lodged before scans are allowed to be requested, in the form of scan credit, similar to paying a subscription or buying a ticket to a concert.

There may be cost benefits of one solution versus the other, depending on the business arrangement.

Pay After

Pay after is generally only for arrangements where AHI will charge the partner for all scans done within a set period. For example, users can do scans within a month period and AHI will create an invoice based on the tally of scans for the partner at the end of the month. AHI will tally scan billing events from the AHI billing database ledger to calculate the invoice.

Pay Before

Pay before generally is cheaper per scan than the "pay after" scheme, where a user or partner has effectively pre-paid for a bulk price for scans. This is ideal for subscription or user based pricing solutions. For example, a user pays a monthly subscription which entitles them to 100 BodyScans and four FaceScans in a month, for a set fee. The mechanism AHI have developed to help manage this solution is a per user "scan credit" system, dubbed "ScanControl".

ScanControl

ScanControl is the mechanism AHI have developed to help manage the Pay Before solution. It works as a scan credit system, where scan credit is banked into a virtual wallet for each user, allowing the user to utilize a set number of scans per period. ScanControl is highly configurable depending on the agreement made between partner and AHI.

ScanControl: Add Credit

Adding scan credit for the user is done as either scan purchase or subscription payment (different billing identifiers to signal each type). The partner app or server calls the AHI payment API, which complies with RevenueCat Webhook specification, to deposit scan credit into the user's scan credit wallet:

ScanControl: Request Scan (Sentinel)

When a user requests to do a scan, the AHI SDK will check if the user is in credit to do that scan or not, using the ScanControl Sentinel mechanism. ScanControl Sentinel simply checks the user's wallet to see if they are in credit before allowing the scan to proceed. There is a GET API the partner app or server can call to first check what scan credit the user has before attempting to do a scan for convenience.

ScanControl: Scan Completed (Redeem)

Once a user successfully completes a scan and retrieves a scan result, the scan credit will be redeemed from the user's wallet.