# Set up per-seat pricing

Set up per-seat pricing for your subscriptions.

Per-seat pricing is a linear pricing model where the number of seats (for example, software licenses) maps to the number of units (for example, users). For example, imagine a business called [Typographic](https://typographic.io/) that wants to offer a per-seat plan. Typographic’s customers pick how many seats they’ll use, and Typographic charges based on that amount. In this example, a customer chooses and pays for three seats, which represents access for three of their users.
![](https://b.stripecdn.com/docs-statics-srv/assets/pricing_model-per-seat.8ed5ad9243ad6ae1c38b072cbb4ce07a.png)

Per-seat pricing model

To model this scenario, Typographic creates a product with a flat-rate price where each unit represents a user. When Typographic creates a subscription for a customer, the customer specifies the number of users for that subscription.

#### Dashboard

First, create the `Per-seat` product. To learn about all the options for creating a product, see the [prices guide](https://docs.stripe.com/products-prices/manage-prices.md#create-product).

1. Go to [Product catalog](https://dashboard.stripe.com/products).
2. Click **+ Create product**.
3. Enter a **Name** for the product.
4. (Optional) Add a **Description**. The description appears at checkout, on the [customer portal](https://docs.stripe.com/customer-management.md), and in [quotes](https://docs.stripe.com/quotes.md).

Next, create the monthly price for the product:

1. Select **Recurring**.
2. For **Amount**, enter a price amount.
3. For **Billing period**, select **Monthly**.
4. Click **Add product** to save the product and price. You can only edit the product and price until you create a subscription with them.

To create a subscription using that price:

1. Go to the **Billing** > **Subscriptions** page.
2. Click **+ Create subscription**.
3. Find or add a customer.
4. Search for the product you created and select the price you want to use.
5. (Optional) Select **Collect tax automatically** to use Stripe Tax.
6. Click **Start subscription** to start it immediately or **Schedule subscription** to start it on another schedule.

#### API

1. Create the `Per-seat` product.
   ```curl
   curl https://api.stripe.com/v1/products \
     -u "<<YOUR_SECRET_KEY>>:" \
     -d name=Per-seat
   ```
2. Create a price for the monthly fee.
   ```curl
   curl https://api.stripe.com/v1/prices \
     -u "<<YOUR_SECRET_KEY>>:" \
     -d "product={{PRODUCT_ID}}" \
     -d unit_amount=1000 \
     -d currency=usd \
     -d "recurring[interval]=month"
   ```
3. When you create the [subscription](https://docs.stripe.com/api/subscriptions.md), specify a `quantity` to charge for the number of seats.
   ```curl
   curl https://api.stripe.com/v1/subscriptions \
     -u "<<YOUR_SECRET_KEY>>:" \
     -d "customer={{CUSTOMER_ID}}" \
     -d "items[0][price]={{per_seat_price_id}}" \
     -d "items[0][quantity]=12"
   ```