# Currencies and products

Choose your currencies, make a workspace feature your plans control, then create a category and a Feature, Limit and Quota product in pricing-page order.

Plans are made of products and priced in your billing currencies. So before the first plan, three things exist: the currencies you charge in, a category to put products in, and the products themselves. A product is one of three types:

| Type    | What a plan says about it                          | Example           |
| ------- | -------------------------------------------------- | ----------------- |
| Feature | On or off: the workspace has it or does not        | Priority support  |
| Limit   | A ceiling on how many of something a workspace has | Team members      |
| Quota   | An amount a workspace can use in each period       | Reports per month |

No product carries a price. Prices, and how much of each limit and quota a plan includes, are set on the plan's version, in the [next guide](/billing-setup/first-plan).

> **Note:**

- Stripe connected ([Connect Stripe](/billing-setup/connect-stripe)): until then, **Products** and **Product categories** are not in the **Billing** menu.
- An owner or admin of the organization, for the currencies.

## 1. Choose your billing currencies

[Open organization settings in the console](https://console.buildbase.app/dashboard/admin/setting/organization)

In the left rail choose **Settings**, then **General** under **Organization**. In the card **Billing currencies**, tick each currency you charge in, here **USD** and **EUR**.

![The Billing currencies card with USD and EUR ticked, both highlighted as step 1, and the description reading 2 of 21 enabled](/images/billing-setup/catalog/console-billing-currencies.webp)

## 2. Save them

Press **Save currencies**. **Confirm before saving** lists what you are adding and says what it means: "Once saved, these cannot be removed. All plan versions will need to support these currencies." Press **Save currencies** in it.

![Confirm before saving: You are adding 2 currencies, EUR and USD, the warning that they cannot be removed, and the Save currencies button highlighted as step 2](/images/billing-setup/catalog/console-save-currencies.webp)

No plan version can be created until the organization has a billing currency. Add a currency only when you are ready to price every plan in it.

## 3. Make a workspace feature your plans control

A Feature product switches a workspace feature on for the workspaces whose plan includes it. That feature has to exist, and has to be one the plans decide.

[Open workspace features in the console](https://console.buildbase.app/dashboard/admin/workspaces/features)

In the left rail choose **Users**, then **Features** under **Workspaces**. Create the feature if it is new ([workspace flags](/feature-flags/workspace-flags)), then press **Edit** on its row. Switch on **Enabled** and **Subscription managed**, and press **Update**.

![The Edit feature dialog for Priority support, slug priority-support, with Enabled and Subscription managed switched on and highlighted as step 3, and Allowed to all unavailable while Subscription managed is on](/images/billing-setup/catalog/console-workspace-feature.webp)

With **Subscription managed** on, **Allowed to all** is not available: the plans decide which workspaces get the feature. Skip this step if you sell no Feature product.

## 4. Create a product category

[Open product categories in the console](https://console.buildbase.app/dashboard/admin/subscriptions/item-categories)

In the **Billing** menu choose **Product categories**, then press **Create category**. Fill **Name** and **Slug**, here `Core features` and `core-features`. **Sort order** places the category in the pricing comparison table, lowest first. Press **Create**.

![The Create category dialog: Name Core features, Slug core-features, an empty Description, Sort order 1, and the Create button highlighted as step 4](/images/billing-setup/catalog/console-create-category.webp)

Every product needs a category, so create at least one before the products.

## 5. Create a Feature product

[Open products in the console](https://console.buildbase.app/dashboard/admin/subscriptions/items)

In the **Billing** menu choose **Products**, then press **Create product**. Choose **Type** **Feature**, fill **Name** and **Slug** (`Priority support`, `priority-support`), a **Description** and the **Category**. In **Workspace feature**, choose the feature from step 3, then press **Create**.

![The Create feature dialog: Type Feature, Sold to A workspace, Name Priority support, Slug priority-support, a description, Category Core features, Sort order 10, and Workspace feature Priority support highlighted as step 5](/images/billing-setup/catalog/console-product-feature.webp)

**Workspace feature** lists only subscription-managed features, and each one maps to one product.

## 6. Create a Limit product

Press **Create product** again, and choose **Type** **Limit**. Fill **Name** and **Slug** (`Team members`, `team-members`), a **Description** and the **Category**, and press **Create**.

![The Create limit dialog with Type Limit highlighted as step 6: Name Team members, Slug team-members, a description, Category Core features, Sort order 20, and the How the limit counts section](/images/billing-setup/catalog/console-product-limit.webp)

**How the limit counts** decides what counts toward the limit and what happens when it is reached. The defaults count everything, with no other rule. Once a published plan version, add-on offer or grant uses the product, these settings are fixed.

## 7. Create a Quota product

Press **Create product** once more, and choose **Type** **Quota**. Fill **Name** and **Slug** (`Reports per month`, `reports-per-month`), a **Description** and the **Category**, and press **Create**.

![The Create quota dialog with Type Quota highlighted as step 7: Name Reports per month, Slug reports-per-month, a description, Category Core features, Sort order 30, and the note that pricing for quota products is set on the plan version](/images/billing-setup/catalog/console-product-quota.webp)

How much a plan includes, and what more costs, are set on the plan version.

## 8. Arrange the pricing page

On **Products**, press **Reorder**. **Arrange the pricing page** lists each category with its products, in the order of your pricing page's comparison table. Drag a row, or use its arrows, then press **Save order**.

![Arrange the pricing page: the Core features section with Team members, Priority support and Reports per month, the move-down arrow on Priority support and the Save order button highlighted as step 8, and 2 changes to save](/images/billing-setup/catalog/console-arrange-pricing.webp)

The order is safe to change on published plans: it creates no plan version.

## Check that it worked

- **Settings** > **General**, **Billing currencies**: your currencies are ticked and can no longer be unticked.
- **Billing** > **Products** lists the three products, with their type and category, and the Feature product with its workspace feature.

## Things to watch out for

- **A saved currency stays.** Pick the currencies you mean to charge in; every plan version has to support them.
- **The type, slug and Sold to of a product are fixed once it is created.** To change one, create another product.
- **One product per workspace feature.** A workspace feature maps to one product only.
- **What has been sold stays as it was sold.** While a published plan version, a published add-on offer or a held grant sells a product, the edits that would change what its holders bought are refused (`CATALOG_ITEM_SOLD`, see [error codes](/reference/error-codes)).

## Next steps

- [Your first plan](/billing-setup/first-plan) - a plan and its first version, priced and published
- [Entitlements](/billing/entitlements) - check a feature, limit or quota by its slug in your app
- [Workspace flags](/feature-flags/workspace-flags) - the features a Feature product switches on