The preproduction environment acts like a sandbox environment for the client and the subcontractors (channel distributors) in order to try and play with the Signzy APIs.

Once the client & any sub-contractors have integrated into the Signzy API system in the preproduction environment, they will be moved into the production environment. At production, there is no limit on the number of API calls that can be made and the requests are billed post-facto.

A channel can be thought of as an extension of the user model. A channel can be created by another channel and the child channels are controlled by the parent in terms of grants and allocations.

An onboarding object is the main object which holds the data about a particular onboarding. A channel can create onboarding and push data to a parent system (like investor onboarding) according to a grant provided by the parent channel. Exact details on how to create an onboarding object and push data into the parent system can be found above.

A distributor is also an instance of the channel object created by another channel. A distributor can have different rights and grants as detailed during creation or updated by the parent channel creating the channel object.