Products

Create digital products on Spaire in minutes

Everything is a product

Subscriptions or pay once products are both considered a product in Spaire (API & data model). Just with different pricing & billing logic. So both are shown & managed under Products with the ability to filter based on pricing model.

Create a product

Name & Description

Starting off with the basic.

• Name The title of your product.
• Description Markdown is supported here too.

Pricing

Determine how you want to charge your customers for this product.

1. Billing cycle

   • One-time purchase Customer is charged once and gets access to the product forever.
   • Monthly Customer is charged every month.
   • Yearly Customer is charged every year.
2. Pricing type

   • Fixed price Set a fixed price for the product.
   • Free No charge for the product.
3. Price

   For fixed price products, set the amount you want to charge.

Billing cycle and pricing type cannot be changed after the product is created.

What if I want both a monthly and yearly pricing?

Spaire has a unique approach to what the industry typically calls variants. Each product has a single pricing model, but you can create multiple products with different pricing models, and showcase them both at checkout.

Trial Period

For recurring products, you can set a trial period during which the customer won’t be charged. Toggle Enable trial period to enable it. Then, you’ll be able to set the duration of the trial period, given a number and a unit (days, weeks, months or years).

You can read more about how trials work here.

Product Media

• You can upload public product images to be displayed on product pages
• They can be up to 10MB each
• You can remove and re-arrange images

Checkout Fields

You can collect additional information from your customers at checkout. This can be useful for things like phone number, terms of service agreement or specific data you need to collect.

Fields are managed from your organization settings, and you can choose which fields to show on a per-product basis, and set if they are required or not. We support the following field types:

• Text
• Number
• Date
• Checkbox
• Select

If you make a checkbox required, the customer will need to check it before confirming their purchase. Very handy for legal terms!

The data collected will be available in the order and subscription details.

Automated Entitlements

Finally, you can enable or create new entitlements (what we call Benefits) that you tie to the product.

Read more in our product benefits guide on how they work and how to customize the built-in ones we offer:

• License Keys
• Credits
• Custom Benefit

Variants

Spaire has a unique approach regarding what the industry typically calls variants.

We believe having a single product with multiple pricing models and benefits adds unnecessary complexity to the user and to the API. Instead, we chose to treat everything as a product, giving you maximum flexibility about the pricing and benefits you want to offer.

You can showcase several products at checkout, allowing the customer to switch between them. Typically, you can offer a monthly and a yearly product, with specific pricing and benefits for each. Read more about how to do so using Checkout Links or the Checkout Session API.

Update a product

You can edit any product details except the billing cycle and pricing type.

For fixed price products, you can change the price. Existing subscribers remain on their current pricing.

When you add benefits, existing subscribers receive them automatically. When you remove benefits, existing subscribers lose access to them.

Archive a product

Products on Spaire can’t be deleted, but you can archive them by clicking the Archive button at the bottom right of the product page.

Existing customers retain access to the product, and subscriptions continue to renew. However, the product will no longer be available for new purchases.

You can unarchive a product using the Products Update API.