Products and offerings
This page explains the three pieces your catalog is made of, and how you build them in the portal.
They stack. A product holds features. An offering prices a product and decides which of its features a buyer gets. Nothing is for sale until there is an offering.
Products
Section titled “Products”A product is the thing a license unlocks: your application, your API, your tool. It is the subject of the license, not the thing with a price on it.
You create and edit products at monaiq.com/manage/products. One product can carry any number of offerings, which is how tiers and different billing schedules for the same thing work.
Features
Section titled “Features”A feature is a part of a product that a license turns on. You define features against the product, then decide per offering which of them that offering includes. A basic offering and a full one can point at the same product and differ only in the features attached.
Some features are rate-limited. A rate-limited feature carries a usage limit, and usage against it can be billed for the period it happened in. That is how metering works here, and it is always attached to a feature rather than standing on its own.
Offerings
Section titled “Offerings”An offering is what a customer actually buys: one of your products, at a price, on a billing schedule, with the features you attach to it. You create offerings at monaiq.com/manage/offerings.
Pricing models
Section titled “Pricing models”There are two, and you choose one per offering.
| Pricing model | What the buyer pays | Schedule |
|---|---|---|
| Subscription | The price again every period, until they cancel | An interval you set, in hours, days, weeks, months or years |
| One-time purchase | The price once | None |
Either model can add a consumption overlay: rate-limited features whose usage is billed for the period it occurred in. A subscription with an overlay bills the recurring price plus whatever was used. A one-time purchase with an overlay bills the purchase once, then bills usage as it happens.
Free trial
Section titled “Free trial”A free trial is an offering in its own right: you publish a trial offering for your product, alongside the paid ones, and buyers start there. A trial runs 7 days. The length is set platform-wide, so it is the same on your offerings as on everyone else’s and you do not choose it.
Trials do not auto-renew. A trial that reaches day 7 ends rather than rolling into a paid period on its own.
Categories
Section titled “Categories”Each offering sits in one marketplace category, which is how buyers browsing the marketplace narrow down to things like yours. The categories are:
- Developer tools
- Data and analytics
- AI and automation
- Integration
- Security
- Productivity
- Infrastructure
- Other
A workable order
Section titled “A workable order”Create the product first, then its features, then an offering that prices it. Leave the offering in Draft while you are still deciding: nothing is visible to buyers until you make it Public. Publish to the marketplace covers that step.
If you would rather have an AI assistant build the catalog with you, the same product, feature and offering operations are available over MCP. See Integrate.