You provision licenses to virtual portals, by assigning the virtual portals to global plans and add-ons.

When a team portal is assigned to a global plan or add-on, CTERA Portal automatically creates a default subscription plan containing the licenses specified in the global plan and add-ons, and assigns all user accounts in the team portal to this plan. you can create alternate subscription plans and assign those to individual user accounts. Users in a team portal obtain services through their subscription plans for an open-ended period of time without payment.

When a reseller portal is assigned to a global plan or add-on, it is necessary to provision licenses to individual user accounts by creating subscription plans and add-ons and assigning the user accounts to the desired plans and packages. Through subscription plans, users in a reseller portal obtain cloud services for an open-ended period of time with automatically recurring payments. Through add-ons, users can obtain additional cloud services for a defined period of time.

For an introduction about provisioning using subscription plans, see CTERA Provisioning.

This section explains how to use subscription plans to provision services to users' devices and how to provision services to virtual portals via global plans.

For information on creating non-recurring prepaid service packages, see Managing Add-Ons and Reseller Vouchers.