CUDs vs. Commit Contracts vs. SUDs in Google Cloud

Entitlements untangled: The modern way to software monetization

“The concept of Entitlements encapsulates the feature access settings under various product variants (aka Pricing Plans or Packages), bridging the gap between how a product is sold and how it behaves for a variant. In essence, entitlements are a set of permissions defining what a customer (paying or non-paying) can do with your software application.”

Is this what Enterprise mean?

When contracts, invoicing and payments are not working together, you end up alienating your big enterprise customers. See the associated HN comments on bulk license purchase

Quantity discounts on a virtual good: The results of a massive pricing experiment

“Implementing price reductions ranging from 9–70% for large purchases, we found remarkably little impact on revenue, either positively or negatively.” If discounts are a placebo and are still widely used in the industry, maybe they are a marketing hack to lure big customers?