Understand User Quota

A user quota is allocated to the founder as part of the Intelligent Track and Trace subscription. User quota specifies the number of individual users subscribed by the founder. There are two types of users which you can purchase—Universal and Participating users.

Universal Users

Total number of universal users refers to the total individual users allocated to the founder during subscription. Universal users can be founder users, or endorsing trading partner users. The division of the allocated user quota amongst the trading partners is the responsibility of the founder. As part of inviting endorsing trading partner, founder can allocate a certain number of users from this universal user pool. That trading partners can create only the number of users that founder has allocated.

Once the founder allocates the users to the trading partners, the universal quota count includes these allocated users, irrespective of whether the trading partners have used their allocated quota or not. In case the number of users have increased, founder can also buy more universal users.

Participating Trading Partner Users

Apart from universal users, Intelligent Track and Trace enables the founder to buy additional participating partner users. Participating users can be allocated to only participating trading partners, or to create new participating partners. If the founder has purchased participating users, the users allocated when inviting participating users are counted as part of this quota. However, if the participating quota is exhausted, any additional participating users are allocated from the universal user quota.

When a user quota (universal and participating partner users) is assigned to the founder, the founder has the flexibility to divide the quota among the trading partners, and reserve a few for himself. The trading partner in turn has the responsibility of creating it's own users. The users created can have the role of – application user, admin, or user.

For example, a founder is assigned a quota of 20 universal users, and 10 participating users. The founder allocates 4 participating users each to two different participant trading partners. Now, the total number of available participant users are 2, and available universal users are 20. If the founder allocates additional 5 users to participating trading partners, then the total number of available participating users is 0 and available universal users is 17 (3 of these are used as participating partner users).

The division of user quota is driven by the needs of the founder's business network. Intelligent Track and Trace provides full flexibility to the founder on how the quota is divided.