Overview
If Billable metrics are made to measure customer usage, Plans are made to apply prices to this usage.
Note that you don't need to define a Billable metric to create a Plan. However, if you have usage feature to charge, the price of your Billable metrics is defined inside each Plan. Make sure to understand how to create a Billable metric first.
Plan structure
A Plan defines the features your customers have access to, the prices paid to access them and the invoicing cadence. In order to invoice a Customer with Lago, you must assign a Plan to a customer.
But first, let's define the structure of a Plan:
- The Plan basic informations
- A Plan
name
- A Plan
code
- A Plan
description
- A Plan
- The Plan model
- A Plan
interval
- A Plan base
amount
with thecurrency
- Boolean to define if the Plan is
pay in advance
- A Plan
trial period
in days
- A Plan
- The additional charges for this Plan (any Billable metrics that have been created)
- A Charge
model
- A Charge
amount
and itscurrency
(automatically inherited from the currency of the Plan)
- A Charge
All Plans and their charges must be defined from the UI of the Lago application.
Editing and deleting Plans
Plans can be edited and deleted only if they are not linked to a Customer (meaning there is no active subscription for this Plan).
If you want to make a change to a Plan already linked to a Customer, you have 2 options:
- Remove all active subscriptions
- Create a new Plan