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

awake-maroon•8/21/25, 10:13 AM

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!

awake-maroon•8/21/25, 10:14 AM

cc @ellativity

wispy-oliveOP•8/21/25, 10:35 AM

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

wispy-oliveOP•8/21/25, 10:41 AM

not quite sure the best way to handle this

wispy-oliveOP•8/21/25, 10:41 AM

or any better suggestions
thank you!

wispy-oliveOP•8/21/25, 10:44 AM

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

ellativity•8/21/25, 10:53 AM

You can set the Actor up to charge by seconds. What did you call the event in the Actor? secondsseconds or something else?

wispy-oliveOP•8/21/25, 10:54 AM

transcription-second

wispy-oliveOP•8/21/25, 10:55 AM

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

wispy-oliveOP•8/21/25, 10:55 AM

my bad so sorry for this

ellativity•8/21/25, 10:59 AM

In your Actor, I see duration_secondsduration_seconds is that what you want to charge by?

wispy-oliveOP•8/21/25, 11:01 AM

I have added the following
try:
await Actor.charge(
event_name='transcription-second',
count=rounded_duration
)

ellativity•8/21/25, 11:02 AM

Did you also add the event name base-paybase-pay for the other event?

wispy-oliveOP•8/21/25, 11:02 AM

yes about to add that now

ellativity•8/21/25, 11:03 AM

Great, thanks!

wispy-oliveOP•8/21/25, 11:03 AM

so transcription-second at 0.0025 per event (second)
and base-pay at 0.01 per event

wispy-oliveOP•8/21/25, 11:03 AM

thank you so much!

ellativity•8/21/25, 11:06 AM

Do you have specific descriptions you want to add to these charges?

ellativity•8/21/25, 11:08 AM

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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Pricing · 🎵 TikTok Scraper · Apify

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wispy-oliveOP•8/21/25, 11:09 AM

yes
for transcription second

Charged per second of audio/video duration (rounded to nearest second)

wispy-oliveOP•8/21/25, 11:10 AM

is it possible then to have the base pay as one-time events actor start like the example you have provided

ellativity•8/21/25, 11:12 AM

https://apify.com/tictechid/vanzi-universal-transcriber/pricing

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Pricing · Universal Video and Audio Transcription from Cloud Links...

Convert Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, GitHub, Box, iCloud, AWS S3, GCS, Azure, and Backblaze links into accurate speech-to-text transcripts with time...

wispy-oliveOP•8/21/25, 11:14 AM

thank you so much!!

MEE6•8/21/25, 11:14 AM

@VanZio just advanced to level 2! Thanks for your contributions!

ellativity•8/21/25, 11:15 AM

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

wispy-oliveOP•8/21/25, 11:21 AM

for the actor start do i still charge base-pay every run or does that automatically charges the user?

ellativity•8/21/25, 12:11 PM

That is set to charge base-paybase-pay for every run

wispy-oliveOP•8/23/25, 6:51 AM

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!

VVanZio Hi who do I message about affiliate program concerns I have emailed daniel@apify...

ellativity•8/25/25, 9:05 AM

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.

wispy-oliveOP•8/25/25, 2:19 PM

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

ellativity•8/26/25, 8:26 AM

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.

wispy-oliveOP•8/26/25, 9:15 AM

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