> ## Documentation Index
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# Custom tiered pricing

**Custom tiered pricing** allows you to use create [products](/docs/20240301/product-modules/products/concepts/products) based on customized [tiered](/docs/20240301/pricing-models/tiered) and [volume pricing](/docs/20240301/pricing-models/volume) models.

## Adding a product based on custom tiered pricing in Zenskar

> 🔖 Important
>
> Refer the [products documentation](/docs/20240301/product-modules/products/concepts/products) to learn more about the concept of products in Zenskar.

### Step 1: Create a product based on custom tiered pricing

1. Navigate to **Contracts** > **Products**, and click on the **ADD PRODUCT** button.
2. Select the **Custom Tiered Pricing** from the drop-down.
3. Select the pricing model. There are two choices available:
   1. **Volume pricing**: custom tiered pricing model based on volume pricing has some additional feature when compared to [volume pricing model](/docs/20240301/pricing-models/volume).
   2. **Tiered pricing**: custom tiered pricing model based on tiered pricing has some additional feature when compared to [tiered pricing model](/docs/20240301/pricing-models/tiered).
4. Add tiers. In each tier the following information must be provided:
   * **From**: start of the range of units of service or product available for purchase in a given tier.
   * **To**: end of the range of units of service or product available for purchase in a given tier.
   * **Tier type**:
     * **Per unit**: in a given tier, select this if you want to charge for your service or product on a per-unit basis.
     * **Package**: in a given tier, select this if you want to charge for your service or product on a package basis.
   * **Unit price**: enter the unit price you would like to charge for each unit of your service or product.
   * **Flat fee**: enter the flat fee you would like to charge for your service or product in a given tier. The flat fee will override any unit price you might have entered.
   * **Package size**(available only for package tier type): maximum number of packages of your service or product available for purchase in a given tier.
5. Select or deselect **Metered**:
   1. If the service or product is [metered](/docs/20240301/product-modules/usage/concepts/usage-event), select the [appropriate usage aggregate](/docs/20240301/product-modules/usage/concepts/usage-event) from the drop-down.
   2. If the service or product is not metered, enter the quantity.
6. Fill in all other details, and select all the desired features.
7. Save the product.

#### Example: custom tiered pricing based on tiered pricing

> 📚 Tiered pricing vs custom tiered pricing based on tiered pricing
>
> * [Tiered pricing](/docs/20240301/pricing-models/tiered) only supports unit pricing whereas custom tiered pricing supports per-unit and package pricing.
> * Custom tiered pricing supports flat fee for a tier. Flat fee is not available in tiered pricing.

Details:

* You are selling your service or product at the following rates:

| Number of units | Tier type | Price (USD per unit) | Flat fee | Package size |
| :-------------- | :-------- | :------------------- | :------- | :----------- |
| 1-99            | Per-unit  | 10                   | 0        | N/A          |
| 100-200         | Per-unit  | 8                    | 650      | N/A          |
| 201-∞           | Package   | 7                    | 0        | 3            |

* Owing to the nature of consumption, this is a metered product.
* The usage aggregate named Compute is being used to fetch consumption details for a given billing period.

![](https://assets.zenskar.com/20240301/pricing-models-custom-tiered-custom-tiered-pricing-based-tiered-pricing.png)

![](https://assets.zenskar.com/20240301/pricing-models-custom-tiered-custom-tiered-pricing-based-tiered-pricing-02.png)

#### Example: custom tiered pricing based on volume pricing

> 📚 Volume pricing vs custom tiered pricing based on volume pricing
>
> * [Volume pricing](/docs/20240301/pricing-models/volume) only supports unit pricing whereas custom tiered pricing supports per-unit and package pricing.
> * Custom tiered pricing supports flat fee for a tier. Flat fee is not available in volume pricing.

Details:

* You are selling your service or product at the following rates:

| Number of units | Tier type | Price (USD per unit) | Flat fee | Package size |
| :-------------- | :-------- | :------------------- | :------- | :----------- |
| 1-99            | Per-unit  | 10                   | 0        | N/A          |
| 100-200         | Per-unit  | 8                    | 650      | N/A          |
| 201-∞           | Package   | 7                    | 0        | 3            |

* Owing to the nature of consumption, this is a metered product.
* The usage aggregate named Compute is being used to fetch consumption details for a given billing period.

![](https://assets.zenskar.com/20240301/pricing-models-custom-tiered-custom-tiered-pricing-based-volume-pricing.png)

### Step 2

#### Add product to new contract

1. Navigate to **Contracts** > **Contracts**, and click on the **+ ADD NEW CONTRACT** button.
2. Click on the **+ ADD NEW PRODUCT** button.
3. Select the product(s) based on custom tiered pricing for the contract.

#### Add product to new template

1. Navigate to **Contracts** > **Templates**, and click on the **+ ADD NEW TEMPLATE** button.
2. Click on the **+ ADD NEW PRODUCT** button.
3. Select the product(s) based on custom tiered pricing for the template.