Information processing apparatus and system for transmitting capability change notification for changing capability corresponding to different contract plan to image forming apparatus

A control method for an information processing apparatus, the control method comprising:

• holding contract information including information about a contracted plan selected by a user from among subscription plans that use an image forming apparatus;
• receiving a plan change notification requesting a change from the contracted plan to a different plan involving a change in a capability of the image forming apparatus;
• and
• transmitting, in response to receiving the plan change notification requesting the change from the contracted plan to the different plan involving the change in the capability of the image forming apparatus, a capability change notification, for changing the capability of the image forming apparatus to a capability corresponding to the different plan, to the image forming apparatus.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a control program causing a computer to execute a control method for an information processing apparatus, the control method comprising:

• holding contract information including information about a contracted plan selected by a user from among subscription plans that use an image forming apparatus;
• receiving a plan change notification requesting a change from the contracted plan to a different plan involving a change in a capability of the image forming apparatus;
• and
• transmitting, in response to receiving the plan change notification requesting the change from the contracted plan to the different plan involving the change in the capability of the image forming apparatus, a capability change notification, for changing the capability of the image forming apparatus to a capability corresponding to the different plan, to the image forming apparatus.

A management system comprising:

• a management server that manages an image forming apparatus, the management server comprising:
• a memory configured to store computer-executable instructions;
• and
• a processor configured to execute the computer-executable instructions stored in the memory to cause the information processing apparatus to:
• hold contract information including information about a contracted plan selected by a user from among subscription plans that use an image forming apparatus;
• receive a plan change notification requesting a change from the contracted plan to a different plan involving a change in a capability of the image forming apparatus;
• and
• transmit, in response to receiving the plan change notification requesting the change from the contracted plan to the different plan involving the change in the capability of the image forming apparatus, a capability change notification, for changing the capability of the image forming apparatus to a capability corresponding to the different plan, to the image forming apparatus;
• and
• the image forming apparatus comprising:
• a memory configured to store computer-executable instructions;
• and
• a processor configured to execute the computer-executable instructions stored in the memory to cause the image forming apparatus to:
• change the capability of the image forming apparatus to the capability corresponding to the different plan based on the capability change notification received.