Box Office

Box Office is the licensing part of Showrunner. The operator of a managed product, such as Direct, decides what each tenant may do: how long its trial runs, how many seats it has, which modules it has and how much compute it may use. The product honors those decisions and reports back what happened in it.

Box Office is a library set, not a service. The operator and the product exchange public events through Chronicle:

• Cratis.Showrunner.BoxOffice.Contracts holds the public events both sides exchange; see Contracts.
• Cratis.Showrunner.BoxOffice runs inside the product’s own Arc and Chronicle process and honors the operator’s decisions: it receives them, answers what a tenant may use, refuses commands from a tenant that is suspended and licenses seats; see Receiving and entitlements, Suspension and read-only tenants, Module gating, Seat licensing and Compute admission.
• @cratis/showrunner.boxoffice is the generated TypeScript proxies for the product’s frontend; see Frontend proxies.
• @cratis/showrunner.boxoffice.react is the user interface: entitlements and module filtering, trial and suspension banners, the seats, usage and plan pages and the buttons that open the customer portal; see React components and The customer portal.
• Cratis.Showrunner.BoxOffice.Catalog holds the offers the operator sells, their prices and the pricing arithmetic, and publishes the catalog to products; see Catalog.
• Cratis.Showrunner.BoxOffice.Offering is what a product references: it declares what the product sells and reports it to the operator, see Offering, and it measures compute per tenant and day, see Metering compute.