Product Updates

Polar’s take on Product variants

We’ve released big changes to how we handle products and pricing, allowing us to support a unique approach to what the industry typically calls variants 🔥

We believe having a single product with multiple pricing models and benefits adds unneccessary complexity to the user and to the API. Instead, we chose to treat everything as a product, giving you maximum flexibility about the pricing and benefits you want to offer.

Thus, we introduce support for multiple products at checkout, allowing customers to switch between them before purchasing. Typically, you can offer a monthly and a yearly product, with specific pricing and benefits for each.

This is available right now using the Checkout Session API and Checkout Links.

Depreciations

• Products can no longer have both a monthly and yearly pricing. Existing products still work, but you’ll see a warning like this when trying to edit their pricing:

API changes

• The product_id and product_price_id fields are deprecated in the Checkout Session API. You should now use the products field to specify the products you want to include in the checkout.
• The type and recurring_interval fields on ProductPrice are deprecated. recurring_interval is now set directly on Product.

New documentation platform. More improvements incoming.