System and method providing rules driven subscription event processing

A system to support online subscription services, comprising:

• a subscription services platform that:
• processes at least one subscription event relating to an online subscription service;
• determines an engine to process the subscription event;
• employs the engine to process the subscription event;
• and
• an engine that employs rules to facilitate billing and provisioning of the online subscription service.

A method to facilitate online subscription services, comprising:

• processing at least one subscription event relating to an online service;
• determining an engine to process the subscription event, the engine including at least one of a qualification engine, a provisioning engine and a ratings engine;
• and
• processing a set of rules associated with the engine to facilitate billing and provisioning of the online service.

A method to facilitate billing and provisioning for an online service, comprising:

• means for receiving at least one subscription event relating to an online service;
• means for processing the subscription event, the processing including at least one of qualifying operations, provisioning operations and ratings operations;
• and
• means for entering a set of rules that are processed with the subscription event to facilitate billing and provisioning of the online service.