Content of this article
- Preliminary remarks
- Create a credit-based subscription
- Examples for credit-based subscriptions
1. Preliminary remarks
With credit-based subscriptions, the customer can purchase so-called credits. One credit has a certain monetary value with which products can be purchased, for example for reading individual articles or issues for periodicals, webinar series with a selection option and similar.
There are 3 different types of credit-based subscriptions:
- automatic recharge as soon as the credits are used up.
- external recharge of credits via API call.
- time-based recharge where the credits are recharged at regular intervals.
- Prior to the offer creation, a product contract must be created.
- A wallet must be added to all subscriptions.
It can be created either beforehand or during the offer creation using the in-line element.
2. Create a credit-based subscription
- Click on + Create an offer.
- Click on + Create a credit-based subscription.
- Fill in all standard fields.
- Select a Wallet*.
- Determine the Recharge Type*.
- automatic recharge upon depletion
- externally triggered recharge
- time based recharge
- Select the Product Contract*. The details of the product contract are broken down again.
3. Examples for credit-based subscriptions
automatic recharge
The customer has 5 credits. He/she uses up these 5 credits within 5 days/5 months/5 years. As soon as they are used up, the customer receives 5 credits again.
externally triggered recharge
The recharge of credits are triggered by an external event or a manual wallet action. The recharge is triggered by API call.
time-based recharge
The offer contains 5 credits. They are automatically recharged once a month. The credits which have not been used up yet, do not expire.
On May 1st, the customer purchases the subscription which contains 5 credits every month. On June 1st, the customer has used up only 1 credit. On June 1st, 5 credits are recharged. The customer now has 9 credits in total.