## 6.1.1.6 Managing Entitlements and Quotas Using the Cockpit
When you purchase an enterprise account, you are entitled to use a specific set of resources, such as the amount of memory that can be allocated to your applications.
An entitlement equals your right to provision and consume a resource. A quota represents the numeric quantity that defines the maximum allowed consumption of that resource.
Entitlements are managed at the global account level, where services plans and their allowed quota are distributed to subaccounts, and then consumed by the subaccounts. When quota is freed at the subaccount level, it becomes available again at the global account level.
Optionally, you can assign service plans and quota from the global account to directories, and from there distribute these assignments to subaccounts under the directory. Before you can assign plans and quota to a directory, the directory must first be configured to manage entitlements. See Configure Entitlements and Quotas for Directories [page 2264]. When quota is freed at the subaccount level, it becomes available again at the directory level.
##  Note
Only global account administrators can configure entitlements and quotas for subaccounts and managed directories.
Note that if you're assigning plans to a subaccount that is under a managed directory that also has the user management feature enabled, then you must be either the directory administrator or a global account administrator.
There are two places in the SAP BTP cockpit where you can view entitlements and assign service plans and quotas for subaccounts - at the global account level and at the subaccount level. Depending on your permissions, you may only have access to one of these pages. You can find more details below:
## Entitlements Pages
| Page in cockpit                  | Navigation Level     | Visible to                                                                                        | Permissions                                                                                                                                          |
|----------------------------------|----------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Entitlements Entity Assignments  | Global account level | Global account administra- tors only                                                              | • View &Edit - Global ac- count administrators                                                                                                       |
| Entitlements Service Assignments | Global account level | Global account administra- tors only                                                              | • View - Global account administrators (you can- not make changes to entitlements or quota assignments from this page)                               |
| Entitlements                     | Subaccount level     | Subaccount members (re- gardless of whether they are also global account adminis- trators or not) | • View - Subaccount members who are not global account adminis- trators • View &Edit - Global account administrators who are also subaccount members |
The Entitlements Entity Assignments is where you view and edit assignments and quota from the perspective of subaccounts and directories. This page contains these views (tabs):
| View                        | Description                                                                                                                                             |
|-----------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Manage Assignments          | Allows global account admins to distribute the entitled service plans of their global account to subaccounts and directories.                           |
| View Commercial Information | Allows global account admins and viewers to view the commercial source of their service entitlements. This feature is not available for trial accounts. |
For information about setting assignments and quota, see:
- Configure Entitlements and Quotas for Directories [page 2264]
- Configure Entitlements and Quotas for Subaccounts [page 2269]
The Entitlements Service Assignments is where you view assignments and quota from the perspective of services. This page contains these views (tabs):
| View                   | Description                                                                                                                                    |
|------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| All Services           | Provides an overview of all available service entitlements of your global account.                                                             |
| Assignments by Service | Allows you to choose specific services and see how their service plans are assigned to subaccounts and directories within your global account. |
##  Note
- To subscribe to a multitenant application, you must first assign its plan to the specific subaccount (in one of the Entitlements pages). If you remove a subaccount's entitlement to a multitenant application, any subscriptions to it from that subaccount will stop working.
- Before a subaccount admin can enable a quota-based environment, such as Kyma, the subaccount admin must first assign the environment's plan to the subaccount (in one of the Entitlements pages). Other non-quota-based environments, such as Cloud Foundry, are available by default to all subaccounts, and therefore are not available as entitlements.
In the Cloud Foundry environment, you can further distribute the quotas that are allocated to a subaccount. This is done by creating space quota plans and assigning them to the spaces. For more information on space quota plans in the Cloud Foundry environment, see:
- Managing Space Quotas [page 2526]
- https:/ /docs.cloudfoundry.org/adminguide/quota-plans.html
##  Tip
Optionally, you can configure assignments and quotas for supported services that you own or subscribe to from supported non-SAP cloud vendors. These services can be consumed in SAP BTP in your subaccounts alongside your self-developed services and those provided by SAP. This functionality requires first setting up a resource provider instance for your provider account in the cockpit. For more information, see Managing Resource Providers [page 2213].
##  Note
In global accounts that use the consumption-based commercial model, a default runtime memory quota of 200 GB for the standard plan is automatically assigned to every subaccount. This quota represents a limit on how much runtime memory the applications in the subaccount can use at any given time. When you use the standard plan for SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry runtime in the consumption-based commercial model, you're billed based on the amount of runtime memory that has actually been consumed. For more information, see Service Plans and Metering for Cloud Foundry Runtime and Consumption Monitoring.
A global account administrator can change the default quota as described in (optional) Adjusting Runtime Memory Quota for Cloud Foundry Runtime (Consumption-Based).
## Related Information
Entitlements and Quotas [page 117]
Configure Entitlements and Quotas for Subaccounts [page 2269]
Configure Entitlements and Quotas for Directories [page 2264]
Create Space Quotas [page 2528]
Create Space Quota Plans Using the Cloud Foundry Command Line Interface [page 2575]
Tutorial : Manage Entitlements on SAP BTP Trial
Troubleshooting : Entitlement and Quota Problems