# Premium Developer Subscription

https://dev.wisecp.com/es/premium-developer-subscription

Premium Developer is the publishing subscription that opens creating and submitting Marketplace products: what it covers, how it starts and what happens when it ends.

## Overview

An approved application puts you in the programme. Publishing asks for one more thing: the Premium Developer subscription.

The platform takes no share of your sales. The buyer pays on your own page and no money passes through the portal, so the subscription buys publishing infrastructure rather than standing in for a commission.

The subscription runs in periods and starts when its invoice is paid. Selecting the button grants nothing on its own; the portal raises an invoice and publishing opens the moment that invoice is settled.

## Prerequisites

- **An approved developer profile**: The subscription is bought from the developer portal, which only opens for approved accounts.
- **An account that can pay**: The invoice is raised for the account the profile belongs to and is paid from that account's billing page.
- **The plan offered by the installation**: When the operator does not sell the plan, the subscription card is hidden and the publishing lock never applies.

## Structure

### What the subscription buys

Six things stay open for the length of the period. What it opens is the right to publish, not a number of products.

| What you get | What it gives you |
| --- | --- |
| Unlimited submissions | Products and releases are not counted. Correcting a product that came back for changes and sending it again costs nothing extra |
| Manual review | Every product and release passes a quality review and a baseline security assessment, and buyers know it |
| Package storage and the licence gate | The platform stores your archive and hands it only to accounts with an active WISECP service. Your own licence check hangs off the same gate |
| Catalogue and newsletter reach | Your product reaches Marketplace visitors worldwide and the WISECP newsletters |
| Sales without commission | You set the price and take payment on your own page; the platform takes no share |
| Profile and the path to certification | Every published product feeds your directory profile. Three published products are the precondition for a certification review |

What you pay for it is a flat fee per period: how many products you sell, and how much you earn, do not change that amount.

### Subscription states

A subscription is in one of four states. The state is decided by the date, never by a stored status word.

| State | What it means | What the portal shows |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Subscription required | Never purchased | Upgrade to Premium Developer |
| Invoice waiting | Invoice raised, not paid yet | Pay Invoice |
| Active | The period is running | The end date |
| Expired | The period ended without renewal | Renew Premium Developer |

Only one open invoice exists at a time. While one is waiting, the purchase button becomes a link to it.

## Walkthrough

### Start the subscription

1. Open the subscription row on the Developer Account card in the portal.
2. Read the period and the amount, then select **Upgrade to Premium Developer**.
3. The portal raises an invoice and sends you to it. Publishing opens as soon as it is paid.

### Renew the period

1. A renewal invoice is raised automatically as the period nears its end.
2. Paying it adds the next period; your products and your right to submit continue uninterrupted.
3. To stop automatic renewal, cancel the subscription. Cancelling does not end the period you already paid for.

### If it has expired

1. Published products stay in the catalogue and buyers keep downloading them.
2. Creating, editing and submitting products close.
3. Paying the renewal invoice opens all of them again; nothing is deleted.

## Reference

- **What the fee is based on**: A flat amount per period. Product count, sales volume and revenue do not enter it. The subscription is invoiced tax-exempt; no VAT is added to the invoice line.
- **One open invoice**: Only one exists at a time. While it waits, the purchase button becomes a link to that invoice.
- **Cancellation**: Turns off automatic renewal. The period you already paid for runs to its end unchanged.
- **Products after expiry**: Published products stay in the catalogue and buyers keep downloading them; nothing is deleted.
- **Closed without a subscription**: Creating, saving, uploading files, testing the licence and submitting for review. The request is refused on the server too.
- **Open without a subscription**: Viewing the portal, reading your published products and editing your profile details.

## Example

A yearly period reads as three dates, and the portal prints all three on the subscription row.

```bash
Marketplace subscription : Active
Started                  : 12 January     <- the day the invoice was paid
Ends                     : 12 January +1 year
Renewal                  : invoice raised near the end of the period
```

If the invoice is deleted or cancelled, the waiting state clears itself. The portal shows the purchase button again instead of a dead link to a missing invoice.

## Pitfalls

> **The purchase button does not start the subscription**
> 
> It only raises an invoice. Publishing stays closed until the invoice is paid, so a period nobody paid for never grants publishing rights.

> **A period ending mid-review closes resubmission**
> 
> Sending back a product that came back for changes also needs the subscription. If a review is running long, check the end date.

> **The developer licence is separate**
> 
> The WISECP Developer licence granted at approval has no end date and survives an expired subscription. They are two different records.

## Related Articles

- [Joining the Developer Programme](https://dev.wisecp.com/en/joining-the-developer-programme)
- [The Developer Portal](https://dev.wisecp.com/en/the-developer-portal)
- [Preparing a Product for Review](https://dev.wisecp.com/en/preparing-a-product-for-review)
- [Publishing a Marketplace Product](https://dev.wisecp.com/en/publishing-a-marketplace-product)