After you’ve set up your developer accounts and billing information, you can now set up pricing tiers for your apps.

Set up a tier on the Pricing & Distribution page of your app on the Developer Dashboard. Then, use the REST API endpoint or the Android AppsConnector method to send metered tier events to Clover.

Before you decide the tiers, you must clearly understand each tier type available.

Set up pricing tiers for an app

Follow these steps:

1. Log in to the Developer Dashboard.
2. Click your app in the Your Apps list to expand the menu for an app.
3. Click Pricing & Distribution.

To enable a free trial for your app, your app must be approved for publishing on the Clover App Market. After the app is approved, you can enable a free trial period ranging from 14 days up to 90 days in the section under Pricing & Distribution before publishing it to the Clover App Market. Click Edit in the Free Trial section to select a trial period.

Billing begins on the day of installing the app or after the end of the trial period. Clover adds a partial month charge in the Pending charge status at the end of the trial period. The status changes to In Progress after the merchant statement is generated at the end of the month.

Subscription pricing

To set up subscription pricing, click Add Tier under Subscription pricing.

1. Enter a name and click Add New Country.
2. Select Enabled, if you want to enable the tier right now.
3. Select a country from the Country list to add a country where this tier will be available.
4. Set up a monthly price for paid apps or use the default value as 0.00 if the app is free.
5. Enter a meaningful tier name such as Pro for a paid app.
6. Optionally provide a description for the tier.
7. Add additional countries, as needed, and repeat steps 2-6.
8. Click Save.

Metered pricing

To set up metered pricing, click Add Tier under Metered pricing.

1. Enter a name and click Add New Country.
2. Select Enabled is selected if you want to enable the tier right now.
3. Select a country from the Country list to add a country where this tier will be available.
4. Enter a price to charge per action value.
5. Enter an action name.
6. Add additional countries, as needed, and repeat steps 2-5.
7. Click Save.
8. Track the metered events and send them to Clover billing. See the documentation to handle app billing.

Add additional countries

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If you're making your app available in different countries and want to have similar tiers in both countries, create a single tier row and use the ADD NEW COUNTRY link to add additional tiers for different countries. Enter the value in the This will ensure billing is accurate and the merchant won't see multiple country's tiers while subscribing in their country.

Metered billing best practices

• Plan your pricing strategy ahead of time so you don't have to frequently change your price.
• Think through your use case and justification of why you need to change the price.
• Send a request to Clover App Market ([email protected]) with a business justification of why you want to change the metered price.
• Work with Clover App Market to review the request and update the prices.

For adding additional countries to your app:

• Create a single row for capturing metered prices of a single tier.
• Use the ADD NEW COUNTRY link inside the tier to add additional tiers for different countries.
• In each country's row, add the price you'll charge in the currency of that country.
• Track the metered events only once for each pricing tier.