Subscription

The Subscription feature helps in managing a user's selected Plan, making it easy to control the access to Application features.

tip

Since each Plan is based on a Role, you can assign the Plan's Role to a user and use the enforce API for permission checking.

A Subscription can be created in three ways:

• Manually by an admin
• Via the Pricing flow (after signing up as a paid-user and purchasing the selected Plan)
• Via API

The relationship between Pricing, Plan, Subscription, Product, and Payment is as follows:

Subscription properties

Every Subscription has these properties:

• Owner
• Name
• CreatedTime
• DisplayName
• Description
• Duration: The duration of the Subscription.
• StartTime: The starting time for the Subscription to take effect.
• EndTime: The end time for the Subscription to take effect.
• Pricing: The related Pricing.
• Plan: The related Plan.
• Payment: The related Payment.
• User: The user who holds this Subscription.
• State: Currently, the Subscription has the following states: Pending, Error, Suspended, Active, Upcoming, Expired.