Create a subscription product

A subscription product charges a fixed price at a regular interval until it's cancelled.

Before you begin, you can set up taxes, discounts, fees, groups and units to reuse. See Create product groups and pricing elements.

Enter product details

1. On the navigation bar, click + and select Add Product. Or go to Products › Products List and click +.
2. Enter the Product Name. It's the only required field.
3. Optional: a Product ID, a Short Description, a Product Unit, and under More Options, a Long Description and a Product Group.
4. Click Next.

Choose the purchase type

Select Subscription and click Next.

Enter the price and charge interval

1. Enter the Price: the amount of each payment, including any tax.
2. Choose the Currency.
3. Choose the Charge Interval: Monthly, Quarterly, Yearly or Custom. For Custom, enter the Interval Count and Duration Unit, such as every 2 weeks.
4. Optional: click Show Fee and Discount and select a Fee or Discount. To use it on the first payment only, select Apply fee to initial payment only or Apply discount to initial payment only. You can't change these in an order.
5. Optional: select a Tax.
6. Check the amounts. BillPro shows the Initial Subtotal and Initial Total for the first payment, and the Recurring Subtotal and Recurring Total for later ones.
7. To stop users changing the price in orders, turn on Lock Price. To stop them changing the interval, turn on Lock Charge Interval.
8. Click Next.

Product page

Optional: turn on Enable Product page so customers can subscribe from a link. See Set up a product page.

Click Finish. BillPro creates the product.

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Flexible subscriptions with the API

With the BillPro API, you can manage subscription billing events and create custom amounts and billing cycles.