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Set up prices: one-time payments, recurring subscriptions, and currencies

How pricing works in véltica, the available subscription cadences, and why Stripe protects your past sales history.

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In véltica, an offer’s price is not just plain text written on a page: it is synced with your Stripe account to charge the exact amount, handle automatic renewals, and keep your records accurate in Sales → Payments.

Add multiple prices to the same offer and choose the default price

A single offer can have more than one price associated with it over time. However, to keep the buying experience on your site straightforward, every offer always has one main (default) active price, which is what its buy button charges in the store.

When you edit an offer from its detail page (Catalog → All offers, opening the offer and clicking Edit):

  • If the offer carries previous prices under Other active prices, the wizard shows you which one is the main price currently used by the buy button.
  • You can choose whether to Keep those other active prices (for example, if you still use them on an existing link) or Remove them when you save your changes.

The currency in which all prices in your project are displayed and charged is set under Settings → Region and currency. If you change the currency there, véltica relabels the prices of your offers (keeping the numeric figure without applying an exchange rate, so a price of 1,200 becomes 1,200 in the new currency) and creates the new prices in Stripe.

Available billing cadences: One-time, Weekly, Monthly, Every 3 months, Every 6 months, and Yearly

When setting up the Price step of a product or service, you can choose between three payment modes, and under Subscription you have 5 recurring cadences:

Mode / Cadence How it shows in your store When it is charged
Free Free (Get it button) Nothing is charged and no card is asked for; records the order and contact with a $0 amount.
One-time Fixed amount (e.g. $450) Charged once at the time of purchase.
Every week (Weekly) $amount /wk Charged at purchase and renews automatically every 7 days.
Every month (Monthly) $amount /mo Charged at purchase and renews on the same day each month.
Every 3 months (Quarterly) $amount /3 mo Charged at purchase and renews every 3 months.
Every 6 months (Semiannual) $amount /6 mo Charged at purchase and renews every 6 months.
Every year (Yearly) $amount /yr Charged at purchase and renews once a year.

How subscriptions work for your customers and how they renew

When a customer buys an offer with a recurring cadence:

  1. At checkout: The payment button in Stripe says Subscribe and clearly states the amount and renewal frequency.
  2. Automatic renewals: Stripe securely stores the buyer’s payment method and runs the charge automatically at the start of each new billing period.
  3. Recorded in your dashboard: Each successful renewal appears as a new row in Sales → Payments. When you open that payment’s details, you will see the From a subscription badge, the charge number (Charge X of Y), the date they became a customer (Customer since), and the total amount charged so far (Charged in total).
  4. Discounts and management: If the customer applied a subscription discount coupon, Stripe will honor its duration (First charge only, Several months, or Every charge). In addition, from the payment details you can click View more details in Stripe to manage or cancel the subscription if your customer asks you to.

Why changing a price’s amount creates a new price in Stripe and preserves past purchase history

If you open an offer that used to cost $500 and change its price to $650, something important happens behind the scenes: Stripe does not overwrite the $500 price—instead, it creates a new $650 price and deactivates the old one.

This works this way for two reasons that protect your business:

  • Accounting integrity: Orders you already charged in the past at $500 must keep pointing to the exact price record they were paid with in Sales → Payments and Analytics → Sales, without altering your historical revenue.
  • Protecting active subscriptions: If you had customers subscribed to the previous price or currency, their active subscriptions keep the terms they signed up under, while every new buyer who visits your site from that moment on sees and pays the new price.