Terminology and Definitions
- Subscriber
- Account Owner
An entity who owns a given subscription is considered to be legally responsible for the subscription. All financial transactions for a subscription is associated with the subscriber (in the general case).
- End User
- User
A person/entity who interacts with INFO-Subscription either as a tenant/merchant or as a potential subscriber.
- Subscription
An agreement for an organization to provide/deliver a service or product to a subscriber in a given period of time. A subscription is typically associated with a specific set of rules, called a plan, which describes the particular terms of the subscription. See plan for details.
- Plan
- Package
A set of rules that governs the details of a subscription, such as the duration, continuation, billing and fees.
- Organization
A legal entity, company or similar who offers one or more products as a subscription.
- Payment
A Payment
- Subscriber Account
An account within an organization that belongs to a subscriber
- Product
A product is something that is sold/purchased either as a service, benefit or a physical wares that can be subscribed to
- Payment Agreement
An agreement on a means of payment/billing between an organization, a subscriber and optionally a third party that allows the organization to obtain payments from the subscriber.
- Payment Service Provider
- PSP
From wikipedia : A payment service provider, offers shops online services for accepting electronic payments by a variety of payment methods including credit card, bank-based payments such as direct debit, bank transfer, and real-time bank transfer based on online banking. Typically, they use a software as a service model and form a single payment gateway for their clients (merchants) to multiple payment methods.
- Mastercard Payment Solutions (formerly NETS)
- Bankgirot
- SwedbankPay
- Vipps Company
A specific PSP - see PSP
- eFaktura
eFaktura is a Norwegian electronic invoicing method for invoicng through most Norwegian online banking soltions provided by Mastercard Payment Srvices. May be combined with AvtaleGiro AvtaleGiro
- Vipps
Vipps is a Norwegian App for payments managed by mobile phone, either through payment cards or direct bank account transfers behind the scenes.
- AvtaleGiro
AvtaleGiro is the direct debit solution in Norway, handling recurring payments with little customer interaction after setup. It is provided by Mastercard Payment Solutions. May be combined with eFaktura.
- Autogiro
AutoGiro is the direct debit solution in Sweden, handling recurring payments with little customer interaction after setup. It is provided by Bankgirot.