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Order and subscription statuses

In the AppDirect platform, subscriptions represent company entitlements to vendor products, and exist for as long as the company has access to a vendor product. Subscriptions consist of one or more orders, which create, modify, or terminate subscriptions. Orders essentially contain the context of operations that modify subscriptions. When a subscription is upgraded, the existing order is "finished" and a new order is created that contains the new cost, number of seats, and so on. Whenever a billing event occurs (free trial, discount, contract expiry, and so on), the order that contains it ends and a new one is created.

Subscription and order statuses are related but do not represent the same information. Subscriptions can contain multiple orders, and the orders in the subscription can have different statuses. For example, a subscription can have a status of Active and contain two orders: a one-time order (such as a setup fee) with a status of Finished, and a recurring order with a status of Active. Subscriptions are therefore active as long as the latest order in the subscription is also active.

Both order and subscription statuses are visible on the Orders page, although there is no "subscription" text to indicate the difference.

To view order and subscription statuses

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  1. Go to one of the following pages, depending on the order and subscription statuses that you want to view:
    • To view statuses for all marketplace orders and subscriptions, go to Manage > Marketplace > Dashboard > Billing | Orders. The Orders page opens.
    • To view statuses for all orders and subscriptions for a specific user, go to Manage > Marketplace > Dashboard > Home | Users > user name, and scroll to the Orders table.
    • To view statuses for all orders and subscriptions for a specific company, go to Manage > Marketplace > Dashboard > Home | Companies > company name, and click the Billing tab. The Orders table appears.
      At the upper-right of the Orders table, there is a toggle between Products and Editions. By default, Products is selected, and the information on the page shows subscription summary information. When you click Editions, you can view order information.
  2. Toggle the Products and Editions buttons as required to view subscription or order statuses in the orders table:
    • To view subscription status, click Products (selected by default). The Status column in the Orders table displays subscription status.
    • To view order status, click Editions. The Status column in the Orders table displays order status.

Order statuses

Orders can have any of the following statuses. The order status indicates whether the order generates fees that will be invoiced.

StatusDescription
ActiveOngoing and generates fees.
CanceledCanceled by or on behalf of the product owner, and does not generate fees anymore.
FailedCould not be successfully activated. Does not generate fees.
FinishedNo longer active. When a subscription is upgraded, a new order with an Active status is created, and the previous order changes to Finished. Certain settings, such as delayed downgrades, prevent orders from immediately changing to Finished and the new orders to Active. See Delayed downgrades. Depending on how metered usage is configured for your marketplace, and if metered usage is part of the subscription, metered usage orders might be generated each billing cycle. Each new metered usage order has an Active status, and the previous order changes to Finished.
Free trialFree trial edition of the product that does not generate fees.
Free trial canceledThe free trial was canceled.
Free trial expiredThe free trial has ended.
One timeOrder is a one-time fee and only generates fees once.
Pending delayed provisioningProvisioning is scheduled for a future date.
Pending customer approvalIndicates that the customer must approve the order, which occurs in assisted sales scenarios. When a reseller or sales agent creates a purchase for a customer, the customer receives an email that contains an approval link that redirects the customer to the checkout flow. The order remains in Pending customer approval status until the customer clicks the link and confirms the order in the checkout.
Pending remote creationAppears during direct API interactions between the AppDirect platform and the vendor system, as described in Asynchronous user events. This status appears just before the AppDirect platform sends an event to the vendor, and remains until the vendor response is received, at which point the status changes accordingly, either to Pending async creation, Active or Free Trial (if a success response is returned), or Pending manual recovery (if a failure response is returned and the marketplace is configured for manual resolution of API errors).
Pending manual recoveryThe Marketplace Manager must resolve an issue with the order. See View and resolve pending events.
Pending migration activationAppears when you use bulk creation to upload externally created orders to the marketplace. See Migrate data. This status remains until the vendor returns a success or failure response.
Pending async creationAppears in the following cases: The order was created for a Manual Web App product type, which requires the Marketplace Manager to resolve the order creation event. See View and resolve pending events. Interactions between the AppDirect platform and the vendor are being processed asynchronously. See Pending remote creation above.
SuspendedAppears in the following situations: There is an unpaid, overdue invoice. The end of the contract has been reached, the contract has not been renewed, and the end-of-contract grace period is in effect. If the grace period expires without renewal, the status changes to Canceled. The initial purchase payment failed. A sales agent manually suspended the order. The contract renewal failed.

Subscription statuses

Subscriptions can have any of the following statuses.

StatusDescription
ActiveSubscription is active.
CanceledSubscription was canceled by or on behalf of the product owner.
FailedSubscription provisioning failed and the subscription was never created.
Free trialSubscription is active as a free trial.
Free trial expiredSubscription free trial has expired. The status changes either when you upgrade to a paid subscription (the status changes to Active) or the free trial grace period expires (the status changes to Canceled).
InitializedSubscription activation is pending, either because provisioning is asynchronous or requires vendor or Marketplace Manager approval.
SuspendedAppears in the following situations: There is an unpaid, overdue invoice and the end of the grace period has been reached. The end of the contract has been reached, the contract has not been renewed, and the end-of-contract grace period is in effect. If the grace period expires without renewal, the status changes to Canceled. The initial purchase payment failed. A sales agent manually suspended the latest order. The contract renewal failed.

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