#academic-desk #subscriptions #salesforce #bulk-licensing

[[2024-08-08 (Thursday)]] 

Luke and Josh are talking about AcademicDesk housing academic subscriptions data. This is news to me.  Is the Academic team planning on their own subscriptions engine?

- [x] Verify that this is _not_ the case and that they are using vanilla subscriptions API engine stuff 
      Randall confirmed that they're not doing _anything_ with subscriptions at the moment.  It's all bulk licenses.

Luke showed me what he's working on Salesforce:
- A group account will have a License info tab that shows:
	- Subscriptions for the group with, supposedly, information that comes from AcademicDesk: number of seats, the type of subscription (various checkboxes), etc
	- The claimed licenses: this is simply a list of SF person accounts tied to the SF group account that have a subscription where the Group ID on the subscription ist he same as the Faithlife Group ID of the SF group account

Request from Justin Ullestad: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14WEYQO0QW7PuIu1re2p2kh5X0KJz_zv4o3e-NBQwRX8/edit?usp=sharing

These questions are irrelevant because they're not using subscriptions for any kind of academic licensing.
~~For this to work, it looks like we need:~~
- [ ] ~~Are group subscriptions integrating to Salesforce?~~
- [ ] ~~If so, is the group ID being populated on subscriptions?~~

[[Enterprise subscriptions meeting]] - see notes there.  The academic team has been tasked with using subscriptions for their bulk license distribution--this would enable students and church members to upgrade and continue subscriptions beyond/outside their church or school providing it.  The minimize work and changes in the commerce engine, the current plan is to continue to use bulk licensing (not subscription-based) for academic license distribution.  But, we don't integrate this kind of thing into Salesforce.