Tenants operating a TVOD model require a payment flow that enables an end user to purchase a piece of content. Once a piece of content is purchased the user will receive the rights to play back the content over a determined period of time.

The purchase of a piece of content is fulfilled by the integrated payment gateway so the Payment Service will be responsible for creating the purchase and it’s pre-requisites and responding appropriately to acknowledgements (reply from payment gateway on the success of a purchase).

Although the Payment Service is responsible for managing third party payment gateway resources, the consuming service (i.e. the tenant’s website) has the responsibility of instructing the Payment Service to do so.

Key Flows

TVOD Purchase Process

SVOD Free Trial Prevention

Currntly when free trials are enabled on subscriptions any card associated to a customer that received a free trial is marked so that it can’t be used in the same tenancy to obtain another free trial. If a tenant supports both SVOD and TVOD then cards used to make TVOD purchases will not be explictly processed by the free trail workflow.