Introduction

How the subscription model is put together:

• Each user has a cost centre which has a company.
• Billing Accounts can be associated with a user, a cost centre or a company.
• Amounts in the system are in one currency per account. All amounts are in dollars/pounds/etc and not in cents/pennies/etc.

Which account is associated with a user?

• If the user has a billing account it will be used.
• If the user does not have a billing account then the cost centre is checked.
  • If the cost center has a billing account it will be used.
  • If the cost center does not have a billing account then the company is checked.
    • If the company has a billing account it will be used.
    • If the company does not have a billing account then no services will be able to be used.

Warning If the user does not have enough money we will not fall back to the cost centre account. If the cost centre does not have money we will not fall back to the company account.

Access to accounts The company admin(s) has a screen which will enable them to view the company's billing account setup under My Account -> My Billing Account. The cost centre admin(s) has a screen which will enable them to view the cost centre's billing account setup under My Account -> My Billing Account. A user will only be able to see his own account (if he has one). In other words: He will not be able to see the company / cost centre account details.

Subscriptions

• A user will not be able to use a service (a website or group of websites) if they are not subscribed to that service.