This glossary provides key concepts related to the creation and management of subscriptions using Sharpei Connect in Shopify.

• Automation: An automation is a process to execute tasks or actions automatically. In the context of subscriptions in Shopify, a marketing automation allows you to automatically sent customers multi-channel communications, such as emails.

• Customer Portal: The customer portal is a subscription management platform added to your store’s theme. Every time a client subscribes to a product, they’ll be able to manage their subscriptions by viewing, tracking, or making changes to their subscription.

• Flow: A series of automated actions carried out on a customer's account when specific conditions are met.

• Recurring delivery: A regular shipping of a product or products set at delivery intervals, e.g. every 1 month, every 3 weeks, every 6 days.

• Recurring payments: They are transactions that occur automatically over a regular period of time. They are set as billing intervals, e.g. payment every month, payment every 3 weeks, payment every 6 days.

• Selling Plan: Selling Plans are the subscription options or periods you can configure and that will be displayed to the customer in the product page and checkout. With Selling Plans you are determining and fixing delivery and billing policies, as well as discounts for recurring purchases.

• Selling Plan Group: Selling Plans Groups are composed by the Selling Plans you create. They are used to group Selling Plans and help you organize and manage them.

• Template: A group of sections that are configured to give your online store a consistent design and feel. They can be applied to various resources such as products, collections, pages, and blogs

• Theme: A theme in Shopify controls the organization, features, and style of your online store. Different themes offer various styles and layouts.