specification: FinOps Framework
specificationVersion: '1.0'
schema: https://www.finops.org/framework/
provider: Tribute Technology
providerId: tributetech
created: '2026-07-03'
modified: '2026-07-03'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Funeral Technology
- Obituaries
- Funeral Homes
- FinOps
- Cost Management
- FOCUS
description: >-
  FinOps view of Tribute Technology spend. The Tribute Store API is not billed as
  a metered developer product - it is a partner integration surface bundled with
  a funeral home's Tribute Technology subscription. For a funeral home, the cost
  driver is the software subscription (management software has been advertised
  around $49/month) plus any add-on products (memorial websites, Tribute Store
  e-commerce, obituary tools) and transaction-based Tribute Pay processing fees on
  payments and e-commerce orders. For an integration partner, direct API cost is
  established by a partner agreement rather than per-call metering; the partner's
  own spend is the engineering and infrastructure to run the allowlisted
  integration server.
notes: >-
  Per-call API pricing is not published; the API is bundled. Subscription and
  transaction figures are directional - reconcile funeral-home subscription
  tiers, e-commerce revenue share, and Tribute Pay processing rates directly with
  Tribute Technology.
sources:
- https://www.tributetech.com/
- https://www.tributetech.com/products
- https://www.tributetech.com/tribute-pay
- https://focus.finops.org/focus-specification/v1-3/
alignedWith:
  framework: FinOps Foundation Framework
  frameworkUrl: https://www.finops.org/framework/
  dataSpec: FOCUS
  dataSpecVersion: '1.3'
  dataSpecUrl: https://focus.finops.org/focus-specification/v1-3/
publisherName: Tribute Technology
serviceCategory: Software and E-commerce
billingModel:
  pricingCategory: Subscription
  billingFrequency: Monthly
  billingCurrency: USD
  chargeCategories:
  - Purchase
  - Usage
  - Adjustment
focusColumns:
  ServiceName: Tribute Technology Platform
  ServiceCategory: Software and E-commerce
  ProviderName: Tribute Technology
  PublisherName: Tribute Technology
  InvoiceIssuerName: Tribute Technology
  BillingCurrency: USD
  ChargeCategory: Purchase
  PricingCategory: Subscription
meters:
- name: software_subscription
  description: Monthly funeral-home subscription for management software and website hosting.
  unit: months
  aggregation: sum
  dimensions:
  - funeral_home
  - product
- name: ecommerce_orders
  description: Tribute Store e-commerce orders (flowers and personalized products) placed on obituary pages.
  unit: orders
  aggregation: sum
  dimensions:
  - funeral_home
  - obituary
- name: payment_processing
  description: Tribute Pay payment and funeral-funding transactions, billed on a processing-fee basis.
  unit: transactions
  aggregation: sum
  dimensions:
  - funeral_home
- name: partner_integration
  description: Integration-partner engineering and infrastructure to run the allowlisted Tribute Store API integration (no per-call Tribute fee).
  unit: hours
  aggregation: sum
  dimensions:
  - partner
principles:
- name: Visibility
  description: Track subscription cost per funeral home per product, and separate transaction-based Tribute Pay and e-commerce charges from fixed subscription spend.
- name: Allocation
  description: Attribute subscription and transaction costs per funeral-home rooftop (serving location) and per product bundle.
- name: Optimization
  description: Right-size product bundles per rooftop; avoid redundant API writes (push only on change) to keep integration infrastructure lean.
- name: Accountability
  description: Assign an owner per funeral-home account; review monthly subscription plus transaction fees against volume of obituaries and orders.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com