Terminology

Key terms used in the bundling ecosystem.

Consumer

The end consumer of a subscription application.

Bundle Publisher

The business that is offering bundles to end consumers.

Merchant

The subscription business that is allowing their app to be sold by bundle publishers to consumers.

Soft bundle

A light coupling integration where the end consumer must purchase each subscription access from each application vendor directly.

Super bundle

A tight coupling integration where the end consumer makes a single purchase to the bundle publisher and gains immediate access to all merchant applications in the bundle

Entitlements

Access rights object maintained by the Falcon protocol that instructs merchants when to grant or revoke access to their application for a given end consumer.

Bundle contract terms

Programmatic contract terms encodes into the Falcon Protocol that manage the partnership agreement between the bundle publisher and the merchant.

Falcon broker

An agentic instance of the Falcon Protocol which provides complete lifecycle management for the reseller and merchant of a given bundle offering.

Contingent bundles

A bundle where the consumer is obligated to maintain a subscription to all merchants in the bundle in order to retain their granted discount. If a consumer unsubscribes from any merchant in a bundle they veto the discount deal of the bundle and their pricing for each remaining merchant will be adjusted at the merchants discretion.