absent-sapphire•2w ago
Hi, @Apify Developer Community Manager I
Hi, @Apify Developer Community Manager I have done the same mistake as it was my first time as well implementing PPE. I am trying to make the base price $10 / 1000 AND with the addition transcription price per second which has been placed on my actor already. Can you please help me out as well.
tictechid/vanzi-universal-transcriber
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useful-bronze•2w ago
Hey VanZio. Could you please tell me a little bit more about what you're trying to achieve here?
The way I understand it, you want to have 2 events.
One transcribe event with the price of $10 per 1000 transcriptions.
And then another event that would be priced per second of speech. Do you already have this event implemented in the Actor? What's the event's name? I could not find it in the existing configuration. And what kind of price do you imagine for 1 second of transcription?
I can update the pricing for you, but I need to know what exactly I need to put there 🙂 Thanks!
cc @ellativity
equal-aqua•2w ago
Hi @Ondra Urban , I am trying to make $10/1000 transcription the base price for everyone plus the additional $0.0025 per second which I have added on my actor already. so every run $0.01 + $0.0025 x transcription seconds
not quite sure the best way to handle this
or any better suggestions
thank you!
I have programmed the actor to count the seconds and round it to the nearest second and show the pricing on the logs following the PPE documentation
You can set the Actor up to charge by seconds. What did you call the event in the Actor?
seconds or something else?equal-aqua•2w ago
transcription-second
oh i understand now it is supposed to be $0.0025 while setting up the PPE on monetization and call the event name transcription-second and call the other event base-pay with the price $0.01
my bad so sorry for this
In your Actor, I see
duration_seconds is that what you want to charge by?equal-aqua•2w ago
I have added the following
try: await Actor.charge( event_name='transcription-second', count=rounded_duration )
try: await Actor.charge( event_name='transcription-second', count=rounded_duration )
Did you also add the event name
base-pay for the other event?equal-aqua•2w ago
yes about to add that now
Great, thanks!
equal-aqua•2w ago
so transcription-second at 0.0025 per event (second)
and base-pay at 0.01 per event
thank you so much!
Do you have specific descriptions you want to add to these charges?
Here's an example of what the pricing page looks like for different event charges: https://apify.com/clockworks/tiktok-scraper/pricing
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equal-aqua•2w ago
yes
for transcription second
Charged per second of audio/video duration (rounded to nearest second)
equal-aqua•2w ago
is it possible then to have the base pay as one-time events actor start like the example you have provided
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equal-aqua•2w ago
thank you so much!!
@VanZio just advanced to level 2! Thanks for your contributions! 🎉
Let me know if you run into any other issues with this or you want to add in tiers for volume pricing: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/publishing/monetize#how-to-attract-larger-customers-of-ppe-and-ppr-actors
equal-aqua•2w ago
for the actor start do i still charge base-pay every run or does that automatically charges the user?
That is set to charge
base-pay for every runequal-aqua•2w ago
Hi who do I message about affiliate program concerns I have emailed daniel@apify.com since august 13 2025 however I have not been responded to yet.
Thank you!
I'll pass that feedback on! In the meantime, please share your concerns with me and I will see if I can help or get someone to help you.
equal-aqua•6d ago
About 4 months ago I have got someone to join apify and has been subscribed consistently as it is used for my client's web app However it did not link to my referral.
exact email I sent (minus the personal details as I am not sure If i am allowed to send it here)
Hi Daniel,
About 4 months ago before knowing about this referral system I recommended and provided my client with the following details (below) and he has been subscribed on the starter plan for atleast 4 months now as it is used to run his system. When I had the referral I did not know how to link it.
Thank you for understanding,
Tictech
I see your point. Please DM me the personal details so they're not shared in a public channel and I will have our team look into this.
equal-aqua•5d ago
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