DigiCert Partner TLS Subscriptions

Turn shorter TLS lifecycles into recurring customer value

DigiCert Partner TLS Subscriptions help your customers save time and reduce risk of outages through annual subscriptions and
included ACME automation.

Explore the Partner Subscription API documentation

TLS is becoming a continuous service

Public TLS certificate lifetimes are moving to 47 days; manual certificate handling becomes harder for customers to sustain and harder for partners to scale.

That shift creates an opportunity to help customers prepare now while moving beyond one-time certificate transactions into automatically renewing subscriptions.

Three Column Blade

Shorter lifecycles raise the stakes

As TLS certificates move toward 47-day lifetimes, customers need a simpler way to keep certificates current.

Customers want less certificate work

Many customers do not want to understand certificate operations, but they expect their websites, apps, and services to stay available and secure.

Partners can create lasting relationships

Subscriptions with automation help partners turn TLS from a transactional sale into ongoing customer value.

A subscription model for partner-delivered TLS

DigiCert Partner TLS Subscriptions lets partners offer annual TLS subscriptions through their own storefronts, platforms, and workflows. Partners use the Partner Subscription API to create and manage customer subscriptions, configure ACME automation, manage renewal settings, and access reporting.

Ready to see how the integration works? 

 

Build a more durable TLS business

  • Recurring revenue

Move beyond one-time certificate transactions with annual named-domain subscriptions.

  • Stronger customer retention

Help customers avoid missed renewals and certificate-related outages.

  • Built for your business

Integrate TLS subscriptions into your existing storefront, platform, and workflows.

  • Migrate on your terms

You choose when to introduce the model and how quickly to expand.

Give customers TLS they don’t have to think about

Your customers need websites to stay secure and available, but they don’t have dedicated PKI or certificate management staff. DigiCert Partner TLS Subscriptions help you offer a simpler experience: automatically renewing TLS subscriptions and automated certificate issuance.

  • Less manual certificate work 
    ACME automation helps reduce hands-on certificate issuance and renewal tasks.

  • Fewer renewal surprises 
    Subscriptions and automation help customers stay head of shrinking lifetimes.

  • A more flexible experience 
    As their needs change, customers can reconfigure certificates and domains.

Partner Subscription API plus ACME

The Partner Subscription API is used to create and manage the customer subscription experience. ACME is used to deliver
certificates to the end user.

Step 1

Create or manage the customer account

Use the Partner Subscription API to create or manage subaccounts and subscription access.

Step 2

Create the ACME contract

Create the ACME contract and receive the ACME directory and External Account Binding credentials.

Step 3

Create the ACME automation

Depending on your model, you configure ACME for the customer, or the customer configures an ACME client using credentials you provide.

Step 4

Manage the subscription lifecycle

Use the API to manage SANs, renewal settings, reporting, billing account links, and related subscription functions.

Technical teams should start with the API documentation.

View Partner Subscriptions API docs

Optional heading that can be visually hidden

Partner Subscription
API overview

The Partner Subscription API documentation includes the implementation details your technical team needs.

Quick links

Optional heading that can be visually hidden

Help businesses prepare for shorter TLS lifecycles

Give customers automated TLS renewals while building a more durable subscription business.

Existing partners should contact their partner account manager for access to partner TLS subscriptions.

Prospective partners can apply for our program.

  • DigiCert Logo

    DigiCert is a global leader in intelligent trust, securing people, data, and devices with AI-powered solutions built to stop threats today and prepare for a quantum-safe future.