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url: /features/subscription-policy-management.md
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# Subscription & Policy Management

The subscription resource holds the data tied to the policyholder — either a physical person or a legal entity. It is exposed through two collection modes: a continuous stream that ingests records as they become available, and a final reconciliation call that guarantees full data integrity before downstream processing.

## Core entities

A broker manages subscribers. Each subscriber holds one or more policies, and each policy contains one or more compartments — the structural unit that premiums and switches operate on. A subscriber also has one or more payers, who fund the policy's premiums.

```mermaid
graph TD
  Broker[Broker]
  Subscriber[Subscriber]
  Policy[Policy]
  Compartment[Compartment]
  Payer[Payer]

  Broker -->|manages 0 to many subscribers| Subscriber
  Subscriber -->|holds 1 to many policies| Policy
  Policy -->|contains 1 to many compartments| Compartment
  Subscriber -->|has 1 to many payers| Payer
```

## Related

* [Data Model](/topics/start-building/data-model)
* [Subscription](/topics/start-building/subscription)
* [Human-Readable IDs](/topics/human-id) — policies, brokers, subscribers, and payers all carry one
* [Glossary: Compartment](/glossary/compartment)
* [Glossary: Policyholder](/glossary/policyholder)