I am concerned about receiving an email a short time after purchasing 1000 credits that I had depleted 75% of them when in fact at that time, I had 806.62 credits remaining. I am thinking that the algorithm is not computing accurately. I would think that 250 would be my number to trigger a warning. 1000 – (1000 * 0.75) = 250.
The last time I actually depleted credits, I got only a warning that said I had used all of my credits, not any warning that I was getting close. It was explained to me that the algorithm goes back two years in calculating the total credits before computing the 75% used amount. I imagine that most people use the real-time actual credits remaining as a measure of how they need to understand when to replenish.
It would be better to get this algorithm right because right now, it’s not very effective. The reports are not helpful, either in this regard.
I do like seeing the daily burn rate in my dashboard, and how much I have, but I would think that some additional dashboard items like total amount remaining, total used in 24 hours, and estimated days remaining with current amount at the burn rate in the last 24 hours could be helpful - and when that number (days remaining) gets to 7, an email gets sent out warning that there is only one week estimated before you're out of credits.
That could be more effective than going back in the years and looking at the total of which many have been burned and others have been purchased - so you have a "- + - +" set of variables that is not necessarily meaningful.
For now, I try to go out and peek every couple of days if I'm not on AGOL doing work. Hope that others are interested in having something better than what we have now.
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