1. Scenario overview
Plan orders are the path from choosing a plan to placing the order. That is a different job from payment integration and from WeChat and Alipay collections, which are about taking the money. Here you show the catalog — several tiers, monthly, quarterly, and yearly — the user picks a SIM and a plan, confirms the order, is sent to pay, and the plan is applied to the SIM once payment succeeds. B2B can order in bulk. B2B2C is one SIM, bought by the user.
The order sits between plan packaging and payment. Packaging defines what can be sold. The order is how the user chooses it. Payment collects the money and triggers the plan on the SIM. Together that is an online sale.
2. Core capabilities
The catalog
Show several tiers, including monthly, quarterly, and yearly plans, and a traffic pool. Each row shows the name, the allowance, the price, and how long it lasts. Filter and sort by type. The catalog comes from plan packaging. A plan is sellable only after it is mapped to a carrier tariff.
Pick a SIM and a plan
The user picks a SIM already bound to the account and a plan, confirms the amount and what the plan includes, and the order is created. B2B can pick many SIMs and many plans. B2B2C is one SIM. A first purchase, a renewal, and an upgrade all go through this order. A plan change is the other path: swapping the plan on a SIM that is already active.
Pay, then apply the plan
The user is sent to pay, on WeChat, Alipay, or another channel. When payment succeeds, the callback applies the plan to the SIM. It is live at once. Nobody has to push it by hand. The order moves to completed, and an invoice can be requested. Payment integration and WeChat and Alipay collections are what close the money and the plan onto the SIM.
Orders
The order record, its status, and an invoice request. The record is written into order management, where a refund or an invoice can be asked for. With payment integration, the sale can be traced and posted.
3. How an order runs
4. Orders, plan changes, packaging, and payment
Plan orders, plan changes, plan packaging, and payment integration answer different questions.
| Dimension | Plan orders | Plan changes | Plan packaging | Payment integration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Focus | Choosing a plan and placing the order | Swapping the plan on a SIM that is already active | What can be sold, and how it maps | Collecting the money and the callback |
| Core capabilities | Catalog, pick a SIM and a plan, pay and apply, orders | Switch, upgrade, or downgrade | Tariff mapping, on or off the shelf, SKU setup | Channels, callbacks, reconciliation |
| When it happens | A first purchase, a renewal, or an upgrade — a new order | An active SIM changes plan | Before the plan goes on sale | When the user pays |
| What teams need | An online sale the user can finish alone | A plan that can be swapped | A sellable form mapped to the carrier | Money that lands, and a plan that is live when it does |
They work as a set. Plan packaging defines what can be sold. The order is how the user chooses it. Payment integration collects the money. Plan changes swap the plan on a SIM that is already active.
5. Typical use cases
- B2B2C, bought by the user: on the self-service portal the user picks a SIM, picks a plan, pays, and it is live at once.
- B2B in bulk: an enterprise picks plans for many SIMs and pays once, which is how a project gets deployed.
- Renew or move up: renew before the plan ends, or move to a larger tier when data is short. The user does it without a ticket.
6. Why it matters
Plan orders on the SimtoLink IoT Cloud Platform are how a plan is sold online. In B2B2C the end user picks the plan, pays, and it is live, with no one in the middle, which is what lifts conversion and how the purchase feels. Packaging, payment, and order management are the rest of that sale.
7. Implementation notes
Put the entry on the user self-service portal. Make the tier and the price obvious in the catalog. Apply the plan the moment payment succeeds. The order has to sit with packaging and with payment integration. Configure the one-SIM B2B2C path and the bulk B2B path separately if they should not look the same. SimtoLink can help you set the order flow and the payment connection.