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