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# Entitlements

Order Tool’s entitlements feature informs purchasing decisions made by students or program administrators (on the behalf of a student) based on whether or not they have an existing and valid entitlement for the course material.

An **entitlement** is a record established upon purchase of a title by a student or on behalf of a student (i.e. payment waiver). Once purchased, students are entitled to access a title for the length of time defined by our publisher agreements or the publisher themselves. An entitlement is valid for a section if the entitlement end date is on or after the instruction end date for the section.

This feature prevents students from re-purchasing course materials they are already entitled to access. It delivers a purchase history view that demonstrates all student purchases from current and past academic terms.

In Order Tool, the entitlements feature is used by two key users: [**students**](/products/content/unizin-order-tool/entitlements/entitlements-students.md) and [**program administrators**](/products/content/unizin-order-tool/entitlements/entitlements-program-administrators.md).

### Prevent re-purchase of course materials when a student has an entitlement <a href="#entitlements-preventre-purchaseofcoursematerialswhenastudenthasanentitlement" id="entitlements-preventre-purchaseofcoursematerialswhenastudenthasanentitlement"></a>

If a student has an existing and valid entitlement for a course material that is being offered, the student will be prevented from re-purchasing that material. If it is an eText, the course material will be delivered to the student, for that section, in Engage.

### Automatically declined offers for billing purposes <a href="#entitlements-automaticallydeclinedoffersforbillingpurposes" id="entitlements-automaticallydeclinedoffersforbillingpurposes"></a>

Once the **bill-after date** has passed for a section, an entitlement is automatically captured for each finalized student purchase. The entitlement describes how long a student may access the digital course material before re-purchasing it.

If a student has a valid and existing entitlement and, therefore, does not need to re-purchase the course material in order to receive it, this is described in the [Final declined offers feed](/products/content/unizin-order-tool/implementation/final-declined-offers-feed.md) as an automatically declined offer. This feed is delivered to institutions so that students may be billed accurately.