Stripe Documentation

Create a plan ​

You can now model subscriptions more flexibly using the Prices API. It replaces the Plans API and is backwards compatible to simplify your migration.

Returns ​

Returns the plan object.

Parameters ​

  • currency (enum, required) Three-letter ISO currency code, in lowercase. Must be a supported currency.

  • interval (enum, required) Specifies billing frequency. Either day, week, month or year. Possible enum values:

    • day
    • month
    • week
    • year

  • product (object, required) The product whose pricing the created plan will represent. This can either be the ID of an existing product, or a dictionary containing fields used to create a service product.

    • product.name (string, required) The product’s name, meant to be displayable to the customer.

    • product.active (boolean, optional) Whether the product is currently available for purchase. Defaults to true.

    • product.metadata (object, optional) Set of key-value pairs that you can attach to an object. This can be useful for storing additional information about the object in a structured format. Individual keys can be unset by posting an empty value to them. All keys can be unset by posting an empty value to metadata.

    • product.statement_descriptor (string, optional) An arbitrary string to be displayed on your customer’s credit card or bank statement. While most banks display this information consistently, some may display it incorrectly or not at all.

      This may be up to 22 characters. The statement description may not include <, >, \, ", ' characters, and will appear on your customer’s statement in capital letters. Non-ASCII characters are automatically stripped.

    • product.tax_code (string, recommended if calculating taxes) A tax code ID.

    • product.tax_details (object, recommended if calculating taxes) Tax details for this product, including the tax code and an optional performance location.

      • product.tax_details.performance_location (string, optional) A tax location ID. Depending on the tax code, this is required, optional, or not supported.

      • product.tax_details.tax_code (string, optional) A tax code ID.

    • product.unit_label (string, optional) A label that represents units of this product. When set, this will be included in customers’ receipts, invoices, Checkout, and the customer portal.

      The maximum length is 12 characters.

  • active (boolean, optional) Whether the plan is currently available for new subscriptions. Defaults to true.

  • amount (integer, Required unless billing_scheme=tiered) A positive integer in the smallest currency unit (or 0 for a free plan) representing how much to charge on a recurring basis.

  • amount_decimal (string, optional) Same as amount, but accepts a decimal value with at most 12 decimal places. Only one of amount and amount_decimal can be set.

  • billing_scheme (enum, optional) Describes how to compute the price per period. Either per_unit or tiered. per_unit indicates that the fixed amount (specified in amount) will be charged per unit in quantity (for plans with usage_type=licensed), or per unit of total usage (for plans with usage_type=metered). tiered indicates that the unit pricing will be computed using a tiering strategy as defined using the tiers and tiers_mode attributes. Possible enum values:

    • per_unit
    • tiered

  • id (string, optional) An identifier randomly generated by Stripe. Used to identify this plan when subscribing a customer. You can optionally override this ID, but the ID must be unique across all plans in your Stripe account. You can, however, use the same plan ID in both live and test modes.

  • interval_count (integer, optional) The number of intervals between subscription billings. For example, interval=month and interval_count=3 bills every 3 months. Maximum of three years interval allowed (3 years, 36 months, or 156 weeks).

  • metadata (object, optional) Set of key-value pairs that you can attach to an object. This can be useful for storing additional information about the object in a structured format. Individual keys can be unset by posting an empty value to them. All keys can be unset by posting an empty value to metadata.

  • meter (string, optional) The meter tracking the usage of a metered price

  • nickname (string, optional) A brief description of the plan, hidden from customers.

  • tiers (array of objects, Required if billing_scheme=tiered) Each element represents a pricing tier. This parameter requires billing_scheme to be set to tiered. See also the documentation for billing_scheme.

    • tiers.up_to (string | integer, required) Specifies the upper bound of this tier. The lower bound of a tier is the upper bound of the previous tier adding one. Use inf to define a fallback tier.

    • tiers.flat_amount (integer, optional) The flat billing amount for an entire tier, regardless of the number of units in the tier.

    • tiers.flat_amount_decimal (string, optional) Same as flat_amount, but accepts a decimal value representing an integer in the minor units of the currency. Only one of flat_amount and flat_amount_decimal can be set.

    • tiers.unit_amount (integer, optional) The per unit billing amount for each individual unit for which this tier applies.

    • tiers.unit_amount_decimal (string, optional) Same as unit_amount, but accepts a decimal value in the smallest currency unit with at most 12 decimal places. Only one of unit_amount and unit_amount_decimal can be set.

  • tiers_mode (enum, Required if billing_scheme=tiered) Defines if the tiering price should be graduated or volume based. In volume-based tiering, the maximum quantity within a period determines the per unit price, in graduated tiering pricing can successively change as the quantity grows.

  • transform_usage (object, optional) Apply a transformation to the reported usage or set quantity before computing the billed price. Cannot be combined with tiers.

    • transform_usage.divide_by (integer, required) Divide usage by this number.

    • transform_usage.round (enum, required) After division, either round the result up or down.

  • trial_period_days (integer, optional) Default number of trial days when subscribing a customer to this plan using trial_from_plan=true.

  • usage_type (enum, optional) Configures how the quantity per period should be determined. Can be either metered or licensed. licensed automatically bills the quantity set when adding it to a subscription. metered aggregates the total usage based on usage records. Defaults to licensed. Possible enum values:

    • licensed
    • metered
curl
curl https://api.stripe.com/v1/plans \
  -u "<<YOUR_SECRET_KEY>>" \
  -d amount=1200 \
  -d currency=usd \
  -d interval=month \
  -d product={{PRODUCT_ID}}

Response ​

json
{
  "id": "plan_NjpIbv3g3ZibnD",
  "object": "plan",
  "active": true,
  "amount": 1200,
  "amount_decimal": "1200",
  "billing_scheme": "per_unit",
  "created": 1681851647,
  "currency": "usd",
  "interval": "month",
  "interval_count": 1,
  "livemode": false,
  "metadata": {},
  "nickname": null,
  "product": "prod_NjpI7DbZx6AlWQ",
  "tiers_mode": null,
  "transform_usage": null,
  "trial_period_days": null,
  "usage_type": "licensed"
}

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