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