A plan name, pricing card or pitch does not activate an SLA. An executed order must name the covered production services, measurement window, availability target, support hours, severity definitions, exclusions and claim procedure. Preview products and unapproved roadmap capabilities are outside coverage unless explicitly included.
The order must explain treatment of dependencies and provider outages; the fact that infrastructure is supplied by a third party does not by itself decide whether an outage is excluded. Service credits are distinct from AI usage credits, refunds and mandatory legal remedies. Where a merchant of record issues invoices, any approved service credit must use a supported billing adjustment or another agreed method rather than promising an unsupported invoice operation.