Glossary

Account — Your organization in MonetizeIt: your catalog, customers, licenses and usage.

Product — Something you license, identified by a product code plus a version (SemVer). Each version is a separate product in a lineage, with its own features, metrics and plans.

Feature — A capability of a product, identified by a dotted feature code (e.g. api-calls.total) and a data type. Defined once in the product’s feature catalog.

Feature catalog — The per-product set of feature definitions — the single source of truth for what each feature code means.

Plan — A named package (e.g. Basic, Pro) that sets each feature’s value or tiers for the customers on it.

Plan set — The collection of a product’s plans, scoped to one product; moves through Draft → Published → Retired.

Bundle — A named offering a customer buys — an entitlement template, a plan set and feature choices, packaged together.

Entitlement — A customer’s grant: which product and features they may use, under which plan and policies, for how long. Its features are a snapshot taken when the product is added.

Entitlement template — A reusable blueprint (products, features, policies) you stamp out to create entitlements; bundles build on templates.

Metric — A measured quantity on a product. Its type — CumulativeCounter, TotalCounter, Gauge or UpDownCounter — sets how readings aggregate.

Monitored asset — A product metric paired with a usage configuration: quota tiers and, optionally, a credit balance.

Quota tier — A usage band for a metric, carrying a level (Normal, Warning, Critical, OverUsage) and an enforcement policy (NotifyOnly, AllowWithOverage, AllowWithGrace, RateLimit, Deny, SuspendUsage).

Credit balance — A prepaid account in a currency and unit you choose, drawn down as priced usage is consumed — separate from raw metric counts.

Activation — Turning an entitlement into a running license on a device or for a user, producing a session.

Session — An active license claim: a session id, a device fingerprint, a signed session token, and a lease renewed via heartbeats.