Products Tab

Products Tab

The Products tab displays digital products that are available for purchase by Montage users.

What Is a Product?

A product in Montage is a digital asset that unlocks or activates specific features in a software package. These products are often tied to licensing, advanced features, or commercial use permissions.

How Products Are Used

While ecosystem products are shown in the Launcher for discovery, they are most commonly encountered during workflow orchestration.

For example:

• A user installs a Montage activity made up of multiple packages from various creators.
• Some of these packages may require product purchases to meet usage policies.

Policy Evaluation and Purchase Flow

When you install an activity:

1. Montage unifies the activity’s dependency graph, tailored to the user’s unfiication domain (PC).
2. It then evaluates policy requirements defined by each package creator.
3. If any policies aren’t satisfied, Montage checks whether digital products can provide encrypted “claims” to meet those policies.
4. If needed, Montage will:
• Identify the required products
• Present them for purchase before installation proceeds

Why This Matters

This approach ensures:

• Users understand total cost upfront
• No surprise purchases are required during installation of complex projects
• License compliance is enforced automatically

By integrating product validation into orchestration, Montage enables confident, scalable use of composable packages across content creators.

Important Note:
Package policies in Montage include both static and dynamic policies.

• Static policies are evaluated after unification and before installation.
• Dynamic policies are evaluated at runtime, when specific features are used.

This means a package can be installed successfully, and only when a user attempts to access a feature gated by a policy, Montage will prompt the user to purchase the required product and guide them through the process.