Not every customer sits on a kurnl-provisioned port. External subscriptions let you manage and bill customers on other networks from the same CRM — so your revenue, support and billing live in one place regardless of who owns the line.
External subscriptions are CRM + billing only. There is no port, provisioning, or switch involved — nothing is written to any network device.

When to use them

Revenue completeness

Bill every customer through kurnl, even the ones you serve on a partner or legacy network — one invoice run, one revenue picture.

One customer view

Support, tickets and history for off-net customers sit next to your on-net ones — no separate spreadsheet.

Kurnl as your CRM

Providers who run on their own network can adopt kurnl for CRM and billing while some (or none) of their base is on the kurnl network.

Create an off-net plan

External plans reuse the normal catalog, but carry no wholesale product — you set the speeds, technology and price yourself.
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Switch to the External register

Go to Plans and switch the register from Network to External. This register holds off-net plans, kept separate from your wholesale-backed ones.
External plan register

The External register in the plan catalog

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Add a plan version without a wholesale product

Create a plan version and mark it external. Instead of picking a wholesale product, you enter the download/upload speeds, technology and retail price directly. There’s no wholesale cost or margin — you’re simply reselling and billing the service.

Add an external subscriber

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New subscription on an external plan

Add a subscriber as usual and pick an external plan. Because there’s no kurnl port, the flow skips the location/install step — the subscription goes active immediately and starts billing on its anchor date.
External subscriber cockpit

An external subscriber in the cockpit

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They bill like anyone else

The subscription raises recurring invoices through the normal billing engine, and the customer can log into self-service to see their plan and invoices — exactly like an on-net subscriber, minus the line telemetry.
Everything else you already know still applies — plan changes, suspend/cancel, tickets & SLAs and impersonation all work on external subscriptions too.