📖What it means

A paid door to a vendor — an account with an allowance the estate draws down. A subscription is where money physically leaves; it is never what a limit is written against, because the same subscription serves many unrelated lines of work.

📖Easily confused with

[{"term": "Provider", "distinction": "The provider is the company; the subscription is the specific account with it."}, {"term": "Track", "distinction": "A subscription is a payment door; a track is a line of work. Caps name tracks, never subscriptions."}, {"term": "Lane", "distinction": "A lane is an execution route; it happens to map onto a subscription, which is why choosing a lane chooses a cost."}]

📖Nuance

Held by the Budget Control track until 2026-09-17; subscriptions, their plans and their provider balances moved to Procurement with the app and the droids that read them ((Ninad, CLI-468, 2026-09-17)).

📖Also called

- plan
- account
- paid lane

📖Filed under

Category: money.

Service: Cost Center.