Create a Product

You can create a product with a certain name, type, and introduction date. A product can be of the customer-subscription, general, or add-on types. You may have the following product types:

• Subscription (customer-subscription) — A product with a recurring charge. Optionally, it can have a one-time price too. An example of the customer-subscription is a cable TV subscription.

• One-Time (general) — a product that is sold one time only. An example could be an initiation fee for a cable subscription.

• Add-on (add-on) — An addition to another product. This add-on product should have a parent product of the subscription type. With add-on products, you can define additional services on top of base charges. An example could be additional premium channels package on a cable subscription.

Use the following endpoint and sample payload to create a new product:

POST https://example-gotransverse.com/billing/2/products

Request

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{
  "product_type": "customer-subscription",
  "name": "Product 1",
  "description": "additional information on product",
  "introduction_date": "2018-08-10",
  "product_category": {
    "id": "1406"
  }
}

Response

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{
  "product_type": "customer-subscription",
  "id": "24362",
  "name": "Product 1",
  "description": "additional information on product",
  "serialized": true,
  "taxable": false,
  "trial": false,
  "state": "DRAFT",
  "requires_agreement": false,
  "default_quantity": 1,
  "product_category": {
    "id": "1406",
    "name": "Product Category"
  },
  "min_service_resources": 0,
  "max_service_resources": 0,
  "trial_override": false,
  "product_tags": [],
  "introduction_date": "2018-08-10T00:00:00-05:00",
  "rule_override": false,
  "rule_type": "TAPERED",
  "rule_mode": "ROOT",
  "consume_prepaid_balance": false
}

Parameters

• product_type* — the type of the product. Possible values:

  • customer-subscription

  • one-time

  • add-on

• name* — the name of the product.

• description — the additional information on this product.

• introduction_date — the date when the product was introduced.

• product_category* — the category to which this product is associated.

• serialized — specifies whether this product is serialized. In Gotransverse, the terms unique and non-unique are used instead of serialized and non-serialized.

• taxable — specifies whether this product is taxable.

• trial — specifies whether this product has a trial period.

• state — the state of product.

  • DRAFT status means that this product is not yet available for purchase.

  • AVAILABLE status means that the product is available for purchase.

  • NOT AVAILABLE status means that the product is no longer available for purchase.

• requires_agreement — specifies whether the product requires an agreement.

• default_quantity — the default quantity of this product.

• min_service_resources — the minimum number of service resources that this product requires. Service resources are used in conjunction with usage.

• max_service_resources — the maximum number of service resources this product can have.

• trial_override — specifies whether the trial period or the number of trial days has been overridden.

• product_tags — the associated product tags.

• introduction_date — the date when the product is or should be introduced.

• rule_override — specifies whether the usage is overridden at the time of the order.

• rule_type — indicates the type of the rule, it can be Tapered or Tiered.

• rule_mode — indicates the rule mode. It is used by a service product to determine how to apply usage rules to its services.

  • ROOT is used only for parent services (subscriptions).

  • APPEND means the parent (subscription) usage rule is executed first, and only then the usage rule of child (add-on or service device) services.

  • OVERWRITE means that the child (add-on or service device) usage rule is executed first, and only then the parent (subscription) usage rule.

• consume_prepaid_balance — specifies whether the product consumes a prepaid register.