A list of terms frequently used in the SubscriptionBridge documentation and in the pages generated by the system (administration and customer service pages).

• SubscriptionBridge areas
  • Merchant Center: the area that contains tools that Merchants use to create stores, subscription products, plans, features, and view reports on transactions, subscription activity, customers. etc.
  • Customer Center: the area that a Customer may use to view/update/upgrade/cancel his or her subscription(s). This is always use when the Simple Integration method is used. It may not be used when Advanced or Shopping Cart Integration is used. That's because in these two cases the third-party systems may contain pages that allow customers to perform the same tasks within their interface (e.g. so a customer would not leave the e-commerce store powered by a certain shopping cart).
• Users of SubscriptionBridge
  • Merchant: a company that uses SubscriptionBridge to help it run one or more subscription-based businesses
  • Account: Merchant staff that has access to the SubscriptionBridge Merchant Center
  • Customer: a Merchant's customer, who subscribed to one or more of the Merchant's products
• Stores, Products, Subscriptions etc.
  • Store: a Web site that sells subscriptions and provides customer service on those subscriptions via SubscriptionBridge. A Merchant can manage unlimited Stores via SubscriptionBridge.
  • Product: a subscription product or service (e.g. a gym membership)
  • Plan: a specific billing arrangement (e.g. monthly, with a 30 day free trial)
  • Feature: additional features that can alter the price of the Product sold (e.g. “towel service” available for an extra fee)
  • Subscription: a unique combination of a product/plan/feature(s)/customer. For example: Mr. Smith may subscribe to a gym membership (product) with a locker (feature) and towel service (feature), and opted to pay quarterly (plan).
• Integrations
  There are three ways to connect your Web site to SubscriptionBridge:
  • Simple Integration: based on adding a “Buy” button to your Web pages. SubscriptionBridge takes care of everything else.
  • Advanced Integration: based on using the SubscriptionBridge API to integrate any existing Web application with the SubscriptionBridge engine.
  • Shopping Cart Integration: ready-to-go integrations with popular shopping carts. Features and functionality varies depending on each shopping cart.