properties /subscription & financing
instalment plan
A pay-over-time financing plan carried by the product — its value is the per-payment amount, a numeral with a currency unit (reuses Currencies). Cardinality many: a product may offer 6-month and 12-month plans. A correlated host bundle: each plan travels with its `installment_count` (how many payments), any `downpayment_amount`, and its `credit_type` (finance/lease/BNPL) — qualifiers with no home but the plan. Collapses Google Merchant installment, schema.org LoanOrCredit, and marketplace financing into ONE structure. Distinct from `recurring_price`: financing splits a one-off purchase into payments (it ends), a subscription pays for ongoing access (it recurs). The APR is derivable from the per-payment amount, count, down-payment and `list_price` (A10), not stored; the named lender/BNPL provider is per-offer checkout config (A6), downstream. The realised schedule is downstream (L1).
Instalment plan is a price, given as an amount in a currency such as USD or EUR.
It belongs to subscription & financing — one facet of a product.
the bundle what travels with each instalment plan
A instalment plan is not a lone value — each statement is a self-correlating bundle, carrying its own:
asked by the kinds that answer it
49 kinds answer it, each for any number of values. The same question can be reused by unrelated kinds — one meaning, many homes.
asked by kinds that answer it
The same question can be reused by unrelated kinds — one meaning, many homes.
| kind | how many |
|---|---|
| Product | many |