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Offerings

An offering is a combination of products and plans; products are combined with one or more plans 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 products can be either:

Offering Examples​

Offerings can have any combination of products and plans. The pricing of an offering is determined by the pricing you have configured for your products and plans.

ExampleProductPlansOffering
Single product and planOne product with a product price of $50A monthly plan with a 5% discountAn offering with a monthly plan for $47.50 a month
Single product with multiple plansOne product with a product price of $50
  • A monthly plan with a 5% discount
  • A yearly plan with a 10% discount
An offering with two plans:
  • A monthly plan for $47.50 a month
  • A yearly plan for $45 a month
Multiple products and planTwo products:
  • One product with a product price of $50.
  • One product with a product price of $75.
A monthly plan with a 5% discount.An offering with a monthly plan for $118.75 a month.
Multiple products with multiple plansTwo products:
  • One product with a product price of $50.
  • One product with a product price of $75.
  • A monthly plan with a 5% discount
  • A yearly plan with a 10% discount
An offering with two plans:
  • A monthly plan for $118.75 a month
  • A yearly plan for $112.50 a month

Building an Offering​

Offerings represent a snapshot of their products and plans. If you make updates to products or plans within an offering, the original products and plans are not updated. Only the products and plans within the offering are updated. Alternatively, you can create new products or plans and attach them to a new offering.

When you are building an offering:

  • you can create new plans and products.
  • you can modify existing products and plans. For example, you can modify the product price or any attributes of a plan included in the offering.

Here's how you build an offering:

  1. Create your repeat products. Products can either be subscription products or Product Experience Manager products.

  2. Create your plans.

    • Plans are the rules that govern your subscription, for example, any discount.
    • You can combine and reuse plans for as many products as you want, making it quick and easy to create your subscription offerings.
    • An offering must have at least one plan. See Create a plan.

  3. Build your offerings. Offerings are the products and plans that a customer can choose. An offering can consist of many combinations of a product or plans, depending on the products and services you offer.

    • When a customer chooses a plan, a subscription is created. See Subscriptions.
    • Elastic Path Subscriptions manages the billing and recurring payments associated with the subscription. See Invoicing and Billing.

Editing Offerings​

After saving an offering, you can, at any time:

Any modifications that you make to offerings, and products or plans in an offering, does not affect any active subscriptions. The changes take effect on all new subscriptions that are created.