Working with Products and Plans
As you may recall from Chapter 3, Setting Up and Getting Organized, we discussed how to organize APIs, Products, and Catalogs. We intentionally left out Plans in that discussion as they will be covered in detail within this chapter.
As we discussed in Chapter 3, Setting Up and Getting Organized, your APIs must be grouped within a Product. A Product will be the offering to your end consumers, so they should be logically grouped as one offering. It is the Product that is ultimately published for the consumers to discover.
Each Product must contain at least one Plan. A Plan is configured within a Product to provide different offerings to different consumers for the APIs within it. These offerings could include API access, Rate Limits, and monetization parameters. For example, you could have a Bronze Plan, a Silver Plan, and a Gold Plan that your consumers can be assigned to. Perhaps your lowest Plan level is the Bronze Plan, which provides a very...
