# Flat-rate Subscriptions

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If your pricing model resembles something that is independent of a metric and is charged on a recurring basis, then this Flate-rate Subscription guide is for you. You can also consider using flat-rate if your product is at a very early stage, and the SaaS company just wants to start charging customers.&#x20;

Once you have established how many different plans you are to have, you need to create a product for each of them. For example, let's take a model that will have two pricing plans (Basic and Pro). In this case we will create a product for each of these.  Creating a product in "Stripe" is as simple as clicking "+ Product"

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If you would like to use a yearly pricing plan instead of monthly or in addition to a monthly plan, there is only a small change in the process to be made. When creating your product you would create an additional price and set the recurring rate to yearly.

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Now that we are done creating the products, for Billflow to recognize these products as a single service we need to tag it with an "sb\_service" tag. This tag should be the same for all products(pricing plans) that are in the model. Next we tag each with a unique "sb\_tier" that corresponds to the plan. That means we have 2 unique "sb\_tier" tags for our example.&#x20;

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Finally, we go back to Billflow and refresh the "Pricing Plan" page. We should see our pricing plan pop up.&#x20;

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