Manage products and prices

Learn how to manage products and prices.

You can create and update products and prices in the Dashboard or through the API.

Some advanced use cases, such as creating variable prices, require you to use the API. Use the API if you have a large number of products and prices or if you’re building a custom integration with Elements.

Use the Dashboard to create and manage products and prices if you want to avoid writing code or if you only have a few products and prices. Set up your pricing model in a sandbox and click the Copy to live mode button on the product details page.
Use the API or the Stripe CLI to create and manage products and prices. The API is a direct method that you use for production implementations. The Stripe CLI is a developer tool that helps you build, test, and manage your integration with Stripe directly from your terminal.

The following API steps illustrate an example of a software-as-a-service platform that charges a monthly subscription fee, along with a one-time setup fee.

Create a product

Create a product and price

Create a product

To create a product in the Dashboard:

Go to More > Product catalog.
Click +Add product.
Enter the Name of your product.
(Optional) Add a Description. The description appears at checkout, on the customer portal, and in quotes.
(Optional) Add an Image of your product. Use a JPEG, PNG, or WEBP file that’s smaller than 2MB. The image appears at checkout.
(Optional) If you’re using Stripe Tax, select a Tax code for your product. See tax codes for more information about the appropriate category for your product.
(Optional) Enter a Statement descriptor. This descriptor overrides any account descriptors for recurring payments. Choose something that your customers would recognize on a bank statement.
(Optional) Enter a Unit label. This describes how you sell your product. For example, if you charge by the seat, enter “seat” so the line item includes “per seat” for the price. Unit labels appear at checkout, and in invoices, receipts, and the customer portal.

Create a price for the product

To save a product in the Dashboard, you must also add at least one price. The product editor shows the flat-rate pricing model by default. You can create multiple prices or use a different pricing model with the Advanced pricing options.

Select a Pricing model. For more details about recurring pricing models, read the pricing model guide.
- Flat-rate pricing: Charge the same price for each unit. If you use this option, select One time or Recurring.
- Package pricing: Charge by the package, or group of units, such as charging 25 CAD for every 5 units. Purchases are rounded up by default, so a customer buying 8 units pays 50 CAD.
- Graduated pricing: Use pricing tiers that might result in a different price for some units in an order. For example, you might charge 10 CAD per unit for the first 100 units and then 5 CAD per unit for the next 50. If you use this option, select the currency for the price and fill in the tier table.
- Volume pricing: Charge the same price for each unit based on the total number of units sold. For example, you might charge 10 CAD per unit for 50 units, and 7 CAD per unit for 100 units. If you use this option, select the currency for the price and fill in the tier table.
- Customer chooses price: Let the payer decide on the amount to pay for your product, service, or cause. Customer chooses price is only compatible with Checkout and Payment Links.
- Usage-based pricing: Charge your customers based on how much of your service they use during the billing period.
(Optional) If you’re selling in multiple currencies, click Add another currency to set how much to charge in each currency.
Select a Billing period for recurring prices. You can add a custom period if none of the drop-down options are what you want.
Select whether to Include tax in price. Learn more about taxes and subscriptions.
(Optional) Enter a Price description. Customers don’t see this description.
(Optional) Click Advanced pricing options if you want to create multiple prices for your product.
Click Add product to save the product and price. You can edit both later.

Edit a product

To modify a product in the Dashboard:

Go to More > Product catalog.
Find the product you want to modify, click the overflow menu (), then click Edit product.
Make your changes to the product.
Click Save product.

You can also edit products from within the product information page by clicking the overflow menu () or Edit.

Archive a product

If you want to disable a product so that it can’t be added to new invoices or subscriptions, you can archive it. If you archive a product, any existing subscriptions that use the product remain active until they’re canceled and any existing payment links that use the product are deactivated. You can’t delete products that have an associated price, but you can archive them.

To archive a product:

Go to More > Product catalog.
Find the product you want to modify, click the overflow menu (), then click Archive product.

To unarchive a product:

Go to the Archived tab on the Product catalog>Overview page.
Find the product you want to modify, click the overflow menu (), then click Unarchive product.

You can also unarchive a product from the product information page.

Delete a product

You can only delete products that have no prices associated with them. Alternatively, you can archive a product.

If a product has a price associated with it, you have to delete or archive the price before you can delete the product. Stripe keeps a record of the price and product for historical transactions.

To permanently delete a product:

Go to More > Product catalog.
Find the product you want to modify, click the overflow menu (), then click Delete product.

Create a price

You can create single or multiple prices for a product. For example, you might have a “starter” level offered at 10 USD per month, 100 USD per year, or 9 EUR as a one-time purchase.

Note

After you create a price, you can only update its metadata, nickname, and active fields.

To create a price in the Dashboard, you have to create a product first. Then you can create a price:

Select a Pricing model. For more details about recurring pricing models, read the pricing model guide.
- Flat-rate pricing: Charge the same price for each unit. If you use this option, select One time or Recurring.
- Package pricing: Charge by the package, or group of units, such as charging 25 CAD for every 5 units. Purchases are rounded up by default, so a customer buying 8 units pays 50 CAD.
- Graduated pricing: Use pricing tiers that might result in a different price for some units in an order. For example, you might charge 10 CAD per unit for the first 100 units and then 5 CAD per unit for the next 50. If you use this option, select the currency for the price and fill in the tier table.
- Volume pricing: Charge the same price for each unit based on the total number of units sold. For example, you might charge 10 CAD per unit for 50 units, and 7 CAD per unit for 100 units. If you use this option, select the currency for the price and fill in the tier table.
- Customer chooses price: Let the payer decide on the amount to pay for your product, service, or cause. Customer chooses price is only compatible with Checkout and Payment Links.
- Usage-based pricing: Charge your customers based on how much of your service they use during the billing period.
(Optional) If you’re selling in multiple currencies, click Add another currency to set how much to charge in each currency.
Select a Billing period for recurring prices. You can add a custom period if none of the drop-down options are what you want.
Select whether to Include tax in price. Learn more about taxes and subscriptions.
(Optional) Enter a Price description. Customers don’t see this description.
Click Create price to save the price. You can edit the price later.

Set a default price

A product’s default price is the most common price you want to present to customers. For example, a product could have multiple prices for seasonal sales, but the default is the regular (non-sale) price. If you create a product in the Dashboard, then this initial price is set as the default price. The default price must be an active price.

To change your product’s default price in the Dashboard:

Go to More > Product catalog.
Find the product you want to modify, click the overflow menu (), then click Edit product.
Under the Price information section, find the price you want to set as the new default price, then click Set as default price.
Click Save product.

To create a new price and make it the new default price in the Dashboard:

Go to More > Product catalog.
Find the product you want to modify and click it to open the product information page.
In the Pricing section, click the Add another price button.
Enter your pricing details and select Set as default price. Read more about the fields available when you create a price.
Click Add price.

Create an inline price

To create an inline price, pass in price_data instead of a price.id when you create a one-time payment or subscription. For example, to subscribe a customer to a monthly subscription with an inline price:

This creates a monthly recurring price of 50 USD for the basic service offering. You can’t update or reuse inline prices after you create them. By default, prices created with price_data are effectively archived (they’re marked as active=false). You can also use price_data with Checkout Sessions, Payment Links, Invoice Items, and Subscription Schedules.

Create multi-currency prices

You can create multi-currency Prices in the API or the Dashboard.

To create a multi-currency Price through the Dashboard:

Go to the Product catalog and select a product.
Click Edit product.
Click + Add another price to create a new price. The default currency is the first currency on your Price. All your Prices must have the same default currency.
To add a new currency option to your price, click + Add a price by currency. Search and select from the list of supported currencies.
- Stripe suggests an exchange rate based on currency values at 12:00 PM EST, but you can pick your own. For currencies that are subject to larger fluctuations, we recommend adding more of a buffer.
To save the new price, click Next > Update product.

Coupons, promotion codes, and shipping rates also support multi-currency in a similar way to prices.

Render multi-currency prices

To show your customer the price in their currency, you can retrieve the multi-currency price and view its currency_options.<currency>.unit_amount field. The API response won’t include currency_options by default. To include it in the response, expand the currency_options field:

Note

To improve latency and avoid problems with rate-limiting, cache the price instead of re-fetching it every time a customer visits your site.

Use multi-currency prices

Each purchase uses one of the multi-currency Price’s supported currencies, depending on how you use the Price in your integration.

Checkout automatically determines the customer’s local currency from their IP address, as long as the price supports that currency. If the customer’s local currency isn’t supported, Checkout uses the default currency for the price.

If a Checkout Session uses multiple prices, coupons, promotion codes, or shipping rates, then they must all support the customer’s local currency, or else Checkout uses the default currency. They must all have the same default currency, or else Stripe returns an error when you create the Checkout Session.

Alternatively, you can use the currency parameter to explicitly tell Checkout which currency to use.

Learn more about defining manual currency prices in Checkout.

Migrate from single-currency prices to multi-currency

If you have an existing single-currency price, you can retroactively add multiple currencies to it in the Dashboard.

If you use Checkout or Payment Links, then multi-currency prices take effect automatically. If Stripe detects that the price supports the customer’s local currency, then it automatically uses that currency. If you use multiple prices, coupons, promotion codes, or shipping rates in a single purchase, then they must all support the customer’s local currency, and they must all have the same default currency.

If you create subscriptions directly, the multi-currency prices don’t take effect until you pass the currency parameter. If you don’t pass the currency parameter, the subscription always uses the default currency for the price.

Lookup keys

Most businesses display pricing information on their website. If these prices are hard-coded and you want to change them, the process is often manual and requires you to deploy new code. To better manage these scenarios, you can use the lookup_key attribute on the Price object. This key allows you to:

Render different prices in your frontend.
Use the rendered price to bill customers.

You can pass a lookup_key when you create a price:

Instead of hard-coding text like 10 USD per month on your pricing page and using a price ID on your backend, you can query for the price using the standard_monthly key and then render that in your frontend:

Note

To improve performance, you might want to add a caching layer to only reload the price occasionally.

When a customer clicks your subscribe or pay button, you pass the price from the GET request above into the Subscriptions API.

Now that you can render different prices, if you decide that you want to start charging new users 20 USD per month rather than 10 USD per month, you only need to create a new price and transfer the lookup key to that new price using transfer_lookup_key=true:

Rounding

Rounding occurs on the line item level of your invoices. For example, if you create a price with unit_amount_decimal = 0.05 and a monthly subscription for that [price] with quantity = 30, rounding occurs after multiplying the quantity by the decimal amount. In this case, the calculated amount for the line item would be 0.05 * 30 = 1.5, which rounds up to 2 cents. If you have multiple line items, each is rounded up before summing up the total amount for the invoice. This ensures that customers are still charged an integer minor unit amount, as decimal amounts only apply for pricing.

Exclusive taxes are added to each line item amount, depending on the tax rate. If you enable automatic taxes, exclusive taxes are applied and rounded on the total of the invoice, including invoice level discounts. If you use manual taxes on either the line item level or the invoice level, you can choose how to apply rounding. Use the invoice settings page in the Dashboard to apply and round taxes for each line item, or apply and round taxes on the invoice subtotal.

Edit a price

Multiple properties can be updated on a price, either in the Dashboard or the API. For example, you can change whether the price is active, or modify its metadata.

Note that you can’t change a price’s amount in the API. Instead, we recommend creating a new price for the new amount, switch to the new price’s ID, then update the old price to be inactive.

To modify a price in the Dashboard:

Go to More > Product catalog.
Find the product for the price you want to modify, and click it
Find the price you want to modify, click the overflow menu (), then click Edit price.
Make your changes to the price. You can add another price at this point.
Click Save.

Archive a price

If you want to disable a price so that it can’t be added to new invoices or subscriptions, you can archive it. If you archive a price, any existing subscriptions that use the price remain active until they’re canceled and any existing payment links that use the product are deactivated.

To archive a price through the Dashboard:

Go to More > Product catalog.
Find the product you want to modify, click the overflow menu ().
On the product information page, find the price you want to modify, then click the overflow menu () next to it and click Archive price.

To unarchive a price:

Go to More > Product catalog.
Find the product you want to modify, click the overflow menu ().
On the product information page, find the price you want to modify, then click the overflow menu () next to it and click Unarchive price.

Delete a price

You can only delete prices that you’ve never used. Otherwise, you can archive them.

To permanently delete a price in the Dashboard:

Go to More > Product catalog.
Find the product you want to modify, click the overflow menu ().
On the product information page, find the price you want to modify, then click the overflow menu () next to it and click Delete price.

Display pricing information

After creating products and prices, you can embed a pricing table on your website to display pricing information to your customers. When customers choose a subscription option, they’re taken directly to checkout. Configure, customize, and update directly in the Dashboard without writing any code.

Import products and prices

If you have a very large product catalog, use the Products API to import your catalog programmatically. If you’re importing your product catalog to Stripe, you can use anything as your starting data source, like a product management system or CSV file.

Use the Products API to create a product in Stripe for each product in your system. To map products in your system to products in Stripe, assign each product that you import a unique id. For each product, use the Prices API to make a corresponding price. Make sure to store the id of the newly created price. You need to pass this id when you use the products and prices in your integration.

Confirm the import by checking the Dashboard or using the API to list all products.

Delete imported prices

During development, you might need to run this script multiple times for testing. If you use the same Product ID, you’ll see an error stating that a Product with that ID already exists. If you haven’t used the Product yet, you can delete it using the Stripe Dashboard:

Go to the Products Dashboard and find your Product.
In the Pricing section, click the overflow menu () next to the Price and select Delete Price.
Click the overflow menu () at the top of the page, and select Delete Product.

Synchronize products and prices

You might need to run through an import multiple times. You can create a script to test the import and, if you want to, synch your original data source with Stripe. To make your script idempotent and resilient to errors, you can safely try to create the product first, then update it if the product already exists.

To keep your product catalog synchronized with Stripe, use webhooks or other mechanisms to trigger product updates in Stripe. To update a product programmatically, use the following pattern.

First, find the existing price associated with the product with list all prices API to make sure the price still matches your data source. Each product should have exactly one active price.

Next, check whether the decimal amount of the price has changed. The unit_amount_decimal field displays the unit amount in cents.

If the amount doesn’t match, you have to create a new price. When you create a new price, specify the product ID of the original product, the currency, and the updated unit_amount price.

Update the old price to mark it as active=false.

Use products and prices in your integration

You can use products and prices across several different Stripe integration paths.

Specify the Price ID when you create a Checkout Session.

If you’re using one-time prices, see how to create a Checkout Session when accepting a payment.
If you’re creating Subscriptions, see how to create a Checkout Session when building a subscription integration.

Testing

You can copy products from a testing environment to live mode so that you don’t need to recreate them. Prices associated with the product are also copied over. In the product details page in the Dashboard, click Copy to live mode in the upper right corner.

You can copy the same sandbox product to live mode more than once. Each copy creates a separate live product, and updates you make to the sandbox product later aren’t reflected in existing live copies.