Terms and definitions
The following terms are used in the Reseller Store User Guide:
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Reseller Store | Part of the ActivePlatform ecosystem for small- and medium-sized resellers to automate sales of cloud services without billing of end-customers |
| Partner, reseller | An organization that resales services of a cloud service provider to a customer |
| Customer, client | Counterparty used to purchase a service |
| Product | An entity used by a partner to manage sales of cloud services. Products are grouped into categories and include sets of plans |
| Plan, tariff plan | Pricing conditions offered by a service provider to customers for using a service. A plan has periods and, usually, resources |
| Plan period | A period of using a service within a plan. The plan period can have a limited or unlimited (endless) duration. A trial period is a particular type of periods that allows free but limited using a service |
| Resource | An entity, consumption of which a service provider offers to a customer within a plan. Resources can be software and hardware (physical and virtual) |
| Subscription | An agreement between a service provider and a customer to give the customer access to resources of the provider based on recurring payments. A subscription is applied to one of the plan periods and includes the purchased amount of resources |
| Billing type | An algorithm that defines how payment amounts are calculated for using a service. A billing type is applied to a plan. For the detailed description of different algorithms, see Charges for the subscriptions with different billing types in the ActivePlatform. Operator (Reseller) Control Panel guide |
| Operation with a subscription | Purchasing a subscription for using a service or changing the configuration of a purchased subscription In ActivePlatform, operations with subscriptions (excluding stopping and activating) are called "orders" (see Managing orders in the ActivePlatform. Operator (Reseller) Control Panel guide) |