Products

Overview

Product and its associated pricing plans are two important components of Subscription management.

A product can be defined as something that you offer to your customers for subscription.

Pricing plans are an integral part of subscriptions. Pricing plan determines how often and how much you want to charge your customers for subscribing to your product offering.

Payabbhi provides flexible options to manage your plans for subscription.

There are multiple ways of managing pricing plan for your business. You may just have a base cost of your product, but may offer variation of pricing plan with variation in billing cycle and cost.

Some Examples of pricing plans :

  • Zoho Standard charges 720 INR per user per month
  • Zoho Professional charges 1220 INR per user per month

You may even enhance your product in an ongoing basis and create multiple plans for offering the enhanced version. Hence Payabbhi supports you in your constant endeavour for business growth and customer satisfaction.

Payabbhi allows to organize and manage your products and pricing plans via API and Merchant Portal both.

Product Creation

You can create a product and save important information as name, unit of the product etc.

Product can be of two types:

  • Goods
  • Services

Since, products of type service is only supported for subscription, the type of any newly created product is set as service, by default.

Product Creation via API

Create a product via Create Product API.

$ curl -u access_id:secret_key \
  https://payabbhi.com/api/v1/products \
  -d name=Books \
  -d unit_label=set \
  -d notes[genre]=comedy

Once a product is created in Payabbhi, an unique Product ID is generated, which can be used to associate a pricing plan with the product.

Product Creation via Merchant Portal

Go to Portal > Subscriptions > Products > Add Product and follow the steps as mentioned below:

  1. Enter name, unit of the product.
  2. You may optionally enter key-value pair in notes to store additional information about the product.
  3. Click on Save.
  • Name of the product is generally shown to the customers as part of any invoice or receipt.
  • Unit label describes the units of the product. Examples : megabytes, text messages etc

Product Management

Product search operation is available via Portal > Subscriptions > Products as well as via API.

You may search products by Product ID.

Product Detail

As soon as you save a product or when you select a product, you’ll be able to see the product details page. This page displays the detail information of a product along with the associated pricing plans.