You can create as many Price Plans as you want in the system. Price Plans will not take affect until you have assigned them to a User Group. Therefore, the Price Plans menu is really nothing more than a storage area for Price Plans. That is, until you begin creating User Groups that call out one or more of these Price Plans.

Give your Price Plan a name to help distinguish it as well as attach a description to keep better track of your intentions for that Price Plan. The Price Plan name and description are not displayed on the client side so in effect the user does not necessarily know that they have been assigned to a specific Price Plan.

Each time you set up a new Price Plan you must decide if it will be used for Classifieds or Auctions listings. It is necessary to distinguish between Classifieds or Auctions because each listing type offers different fees that you can assess. For example, Auctions listings allow you to assess a "final fee" based upon the final selling price (winning bid price) of the item. Final fees do not apply to Classified listings.

There are two Price Plan types that you have to choose from. The two types are:

Fee-Based Price Plans allow you to charge a listing fee on a "per listing" basis. You can then also charge for Listing Extras, such as Better Placement, Featured Listings, etc.

<tip c n> Category specific pricing is only available with Fee-Based Price Plans. Subscription-Based Price Plans do not offer the ability to edit pricing on a per category basis.</tip>

Subscription-Based Price Plans allow you to charge a flat fee for a certain period of time. During that subscription period, the user can have as many active listings as you allow them to. You can still also charge for Listing Extras, such as Better Placement, Featured Listings, etc. With Subscription-Based Price Plans, the subscription period does not begin until they place their first listing. So, if they register into a User Group that is Subscription-Based, their subscription period does not actually begin until they have placed a listing on your site.

<tip c n>When adding a Subscription-Based Price Plan into the system, the name and description of the Price Plan on the Price Plans Home page will be displayed in bold and red. This is because you have not yet set up any subscription periods for the Price Plan. As soon as you do this, the Price Plan name and description will display normally.</tip>

Creating the Price Plan is only the first step. Once you have created your new Price Plan, you will then need to apply fees, expirations, and other details to it by clicking the "edit" button on the Price Plan Home page.

<tip c n>Choose carefully, as the Price Plan type cannot be edited at a later time. When a Price Plan is created as Fee-Based, it will always be Fee-Based. This same principle applies if you create your Price Plan as Subscription-Based.</tip>