Overview
Offerings represent a snapshot of their plans and pricing options. If you make updates to plans or pricing options within an offering, the original plans and pricing options are not updated. Only the plans and pricing options within the offering are updated. Alternatively, you can create a new plan and attach it to a new offering.
An offering includes plans and pricing options; plans are combined with one or more pricing options to form an offering.
For example, your company provides online streaming of movies, web-series, and music. Your customers can purchase these services through either a weekly or monthly plan.
Offering Examples
Offerings can have any combination of a plan and pricing options. The pricing of an offering is determined by the pricing you have configured for your plans and pricing options.
| Example | Plan | Pricing Options | Offering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single plan and pricing option | One plan with a plan price of $50 | A monthly pricing option with a 5% discount | An offering with a monthly pricing option for $47.50 a month |
| Single plan with multiple pricing options | One plan with a plan price of $50 |
| An offering with two pricing options:
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Building Offerings: An Overview
Here's how you build an offering:
- Attach your plans. See Creating Offerings.
- Attach your pricing options.
- Pricing options are the rules that govern your subscription, for example, any discount.
- You can combine and reuse pricing options for as many plans as you want, making it quick and easy to create your subscription offerings.
- An offering must have at least one pricing option. See Pricing Options.
- Create your offerings. Offerings are the plans and pricing options that a customer can choose. An offering can consist of many combinations of plans or pricing options, depending on the products and services you offer.
- When a customer chooses a plan, a subscription is created.
- Elastic Path Subscriptions manages the billing and recurring payments associated with the subscription.