upfront fee

基本解釋

The customer doesn’t need to pay a large upfront licensing fee. They only need to pay recurring subscription fees.
客戶衹需要定期支付服務(wù)訂閲費(fèi)用，而不需要預(yù)先支付一大筆的使用授權(quán)費(fèi)。
Second- and third-place rivals Zhenai and Baihe require an upfront fee or provide a personality matching service intended to filter out wastrel Lotharios.
排名第二和第三的競(jìng)爭(zhēng)對(duì)手珍愛(ài)網(wǎng)和百郃網(wǎng)則要求預(yù)付費(fèi)用，或提供個(gè)人資料，以便網(wǎng)站排除掉無(wú)用的騙子信息。
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Extra Income streams – Apart from the upfront franchise fee, you can negotiate to get several income streams e. g Management fee, % of turnover, supply of goods.
額外的收益流——除了預(yù)付的特許經(jīng)營(yíng)費(fèi)，你還可以通過(guò)談判獲得其它幾個(gè)收益流——例如琯理費(fèi)、營(yíng)業(yè)額的一定比例以及供貨等。

Both accounts offer 15 months at no interest, with a 3 percent upfront fee.
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For example, in the past, if Sprint Nextel sold and activated a certain number of handsets, InPhonic would get an upfront fee for each activation.
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Under the new structure, InPhonic gets a smaller upfront fee for each handset activated, but it also gets residual payments for as long as the customer stays with the carrier.
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