What is considered a document transaction?

[John31624267ghki]

When looking at pricing for the services API, what is considered a document transaction?

For each document generation from a word template to a PDF there are around 5 (can be more) REST API requests that I make:

1. Authentication (Obtain access token)
2. Get Upload URI to upload Word template
3. Upload template
4. Generate document (send data to merge with template)
5. Check status of document generation request (can be multiple if request is not complete)

Do all of these requests count towards a document generation transactions? If not all, which requests count towards your quota?

Is there a difference between using the REST API's vs using the .NET SDK when it comes to document generation transactions?

After meeting with an Adobe sales rep today, they were not able to answer some of these questions. To stay in the free tier, I can only produce 500 "Document Generation Transactions" per month but to move to the enterprise tier, I need to be generation over 15K transactions per month to meet their minimum dollar amount to be considered for an enterprise contract according to them. There is no middle ground for me to move forward. Any ideas?

[Raymond Camden · Accepted solution]

For items 1, 2, 3, and 5, there is no cost. The transaction is only for kicking off the job. This means, for example, if you wan to use Document Generation twice (two sets of data), you can authenticate, upload the doc one, call Document Generation twice, and check each job and download. You will only be charged 2 transactions.

The caveat to this is that you get charged 1 transaction for a document up to 50 pages. So if you're result is 60 pages, it would be 2 * 2 = 4.

[Aftia_Jeff]

See https://developer.adobe.com/document-services/docs/overview/limits/
in particular: 

Document Transactions for the Operations below resulting in a Document will be counted with the following page limits:

• Extract Operation: 1 Document Transaction for up to 5 pages
• Accessibility Auto-Tag Operation: 10 Document Transactions per page
• Electronic Seal Operation: 10 Document Transactions per PDF
• All other Operations: 1 Document Transaction for up to 50 pages