Plans: what you sell
The Plans section in CreateYourVPN: pricing plans for the storefront, self-signup modes — manual, open, and monetized — and what a client gets on purchase.
The Plans section is your price list: the cards a client sees on the storefront and can pay for. It's also home to the self-signup toggle — the thing that decides how new clients get into your VPN at all.
Three operating modes
Before creating plans, it helps to understand the three states your service can live in:
| Mode | When it applies | Where new clients come from |
|---|---|---|
| Manual | Self-signup is off | Only you — via the Users section |
| Open | Self-signup is on, selling isn't set up | Anyone who signs in on the storefront gets unlimited access right away |
| Monetized | A payment provider is connected (on Pro) | Clients register themselves but get VPN access after paying for a plan |
The "Let users sign up on their own" toggle sits at the top of the section. While selling isn't set up, it switches between manual and open modes. Once you connect a payment provider (the next lesson), the storefront switches to monetized mode: new clients land in the "On hold" status — and get access after purchase.
Without a payment provider, every client lives on the "base plan" — unlimited with no expiry. Nothing to sell yet, but nothing to configure either: the perfect mode for a friends-and-family VPN.
Creating a plan
The "Add plan" button unlocks after you connect a payment provider — that's the next lesson. Inside a plan card:
| Field | What it is |
|---|---|
| Name | What the plan is called on the storefront — e.g. "1 month" |
| Price and Currency | A number and a currency: $, €, or ₽ |
| Period | The label next to the price ("/mo", "/yr") — pure cosmetics |
| Duration, days | The key field: how many days of VPN the purchase grants |
| Features | Bullet points on the card — up to 12 |
| Billing note | A line under the price, e.g. "Billed automatically" |
| Payment link | Your provider's link where the client goes to pay |
| Popular | A "★ Popular" badge and a highlighted card on the storefront |
You can have up to 20 plans; the storefront shows them in the order they were created. The "Pay" button appears on plans with a payment link (while the payment provider is connected and not paused) — a plan without a link is just an informational card.
What a client gets on purchase
A payment (or a manual grant) applies a plan by simple rules:
- Days are added to the remainder. 10 days left, granted a 30-day plan — now 40. If the subscription already expired, the new days count from the moment of purchase. That's how manual grants and one-time purchases work; for recurring subscriptions the payment provider sets the end date directly ("paid until") — more on that in the next lesson.
- The client "wakes up". "On hold", "Expired", and "Limit reached" turn into "Active". "Disabled" doesn't: clients you switched off by hand are never touched by automation.
- One payment is never applied twice. Even if the payment system delivers the notification again, the term won't extend a second time.
The same mechanism is available to you manually: the "Grant plan" action in the Users section applies a plan with a duration (or traffic limit) without a payment — handy for DM sales, gifts, and downtime compensations.
Remember
- The self-signup toggle: off — you add clients; on — free registration with unlimited access; with a provider — registration with payment.
- A plan = name + price + duration in days (+ bullets and a payment link). Up to 20 cards, ordered as in the panel.
- "Pay" on the storefront only shows on plans with a payment link.
- A purchase adds days and wakes the client; manually disabled ones are left alone.
- "Grant plan" in the Users section is the same purchase, done by hand.
Next
The cards are ready. What's left is making the money arrive and the subscriptions grant themselves.