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Plans

Plans are a new feature in the upgraded Recurring Billing. They help you manage setup costs and recurring amounts for multiple subscriptions. You can set up and manage plans in the
Business Center
 or through the API. A plan includes a setup fee and a recurring amount. When creating a subscription for a customer, you can assign them to a plan. If you change a plan, decide if the change applies to new subscriptions, or both new and existing subscriptions.
Individual subscriptions are still available, but require individual management.
Plans can be retrieved, amended, activated, deactivated, or deleted.
Recurring Billing supports two types of plans:
  • Standard plans
    : Created and stored within the recurring billing service for reuse. You can assign these plans to multiple subscriptions
  • One-time plans
    : Created specifically for a single subscription and not stored for reuse or assigned to other subscriptions
Plans have two billing cycle options:
  • The bill has a payment schedule with no end date
  • The bill has a payment schedule with a fixed number of payments
When creating or updating a plan, you can take these actions:
  • Define the billing schedule by setting amount, currency, and frequency
  • Specify the number of billing cycles for a fixed number of payments
  • Include an optional setup fee
  • Set up a single plan to apply to multiple individual subscriptions
  • Make changes to the plan and choose whether to apply them only to new subscriptions, or to all existing subscriptions