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# Create a Plan

# What is a Plan for?

A Plan is a charge that repeats at set intervals: you use it for subscriptions and recurring payments. When you create it you define the price and how often it is charged, and then you can select it when generating a payment link.

If you do not turn on the **Recurrent** option, the plan is charged only once.

You can learn more about the Catalog section [in this guide](https://academy.zrupay.com/en/article/catalog-section-1y47uv8/).

# How to create a Plan

From Zru you can create a Plan to select it later when you are creating a single-use Payment Link.

Here is how to do it:

- In your panel, make sure you are in the environment where you want to create the Plan.
- Go to **Settings** in the left side menu and click the **"Catalog"** tile.
- Select the **"Plans"** tab from the horizontal bar.
- Click the **"Add Plan"** button, at the top right of your screen.
- The **"Add"** modal will open with several fields. Three of them are required: **Name**, **Price** and **Every** (the recurrence). The rest are optional.
- Once you have filled in the necessary fields, click the **"Create"** button.
- The Plan will appear in the **"Plans"** tab of the **"Catalog"** section.

# Fields to create the Plan

These are the fields that appear when creating the Plan. Here is what each one does.

- **External reference**: optional field. You can use it to identify a plan with a reference of your own business.
- **Name**: required field. This is the name the customer will see.
- **Price**: required field. This is the price of the plan that will be charged to the customer.
- **Description**: optional field.
- **Every**: required field. This is the recurrence, how often the plan will be charged to the customer.
- **Unit**: can be Day, Month or Year. It refers to the previous field (**Every**) and is the unit of time after which the customer will be charged.
- **Recurrent**: optional field. If it is not turned on, the plan will only be charged once.