Key Terms

Here are some important terms to know as you navigate Atlas.

• Merchant: Atlas customer - the entity that's using Atlas to bill their customers
• Customer: The customer of the merchant
• User: The individual who works at the customer
• Atlas User: The merchant user who is using the atlas app
• Plan: A bucket containing entitlements and/or metrics - most represent what the user is buying
• Entitlement: Static capability or feature, can be granular or high level. Can also include non software specific items that are on a contract, e.g. support hours.
• Metric: A set of events, filtered, and counted, summed, or averaged, etc. to be billed
• Price: Price set on an entitlement or billable metric
• Event: An event defined by our merchants that can be tied to a metric or feature
• Price Type: Defines price structure (one-time, tiered, capped, etc.)
• Credits: Pre-paid units that can be used to pay down invoices or unlock functionality
• Subscription: Ties a plan to a specific user/customer and invoice
• Invoice: What is billed to the customer. Contains terms and detailed line items.
• Jobs Engine: Nightly procedure of reconciling usage with subscriptions, visitors, and accounts. Generates invoices, retries, etc.
• SDK: Both client and server-side packages for calling Atlas API endpoints