# Charge recurring (subscription) prices

> Bill an answer or the product base price on a repeating cycle alongside the one-off price.

Source: CBX documentation, version 3.x (released). Canonical page: https://docs.configbox.at/docs/admin-guide/pricing/recurring-pricing. Last updated 2026-07-23.

---
> **Audience:** store admins · **Scope:** recurring (subscription) pricing on a product · **Last reviewed:** 2026-07-23

**What this does** — Recurring pricing lets a product carry a **repeating** charge — a monthly
plan, a service subscription — *alongside* its one-off price. The customer sees both a one-time
total and a recurring total, and the two are tracked separately through cart and checkout.

## Before you start

- Decide what recurs: the whole product (a subscription product with a recurring **base price**),
  or specific **answers** (an add-on billed monthly). This article uses the second, more common
  case.
- Author amounts in the **base currency**, tax-exclusive — currency, group overrides and tax
  apply on top, exactly as for one-off prices ([where prices come from](https://docs.configbox.at/docs/admin-guide/pricing/where-prices-come-from)).

## Steps

1. **Turn recurring pricing on for the product.** Open the product's edit form and set **Does the
   product also use recurring pricing?** to **Yes**. The product then carries its own recurring
   **base price** and a recurring **tax class** in parallel with the one-off ones, and a recurring
   price label (the interval, e.g. "monthly"). Leave the recurring base price at 0 if only add-ons
   recur.
2. **Set the recurring amount on the answer.** Open the answer, expand its **Price, SKU and
   Weight** section, and enter the amount in **Price Recurring** — the euro field just below
   **Price** and **Was Price**:

   ![The answer's Price Recurring field](img/recurring-answer.jpeg)

   A **Was Price Recurring** shows a struck-through before-price for the recurring amount, just
   like Was Price does for the one-off one.
3. **Save.** Here the "Add a laundry-care plan" question's answer "Monthly laundry-care plan" has
   **Price** 0 and **Price Recurring** 9.90.

## What happens next

On the storefront the answer shows its recurring amount labelled distinctly — "€ 9.90 Recurring
Price" — and the live price summary lists the recurring line **separately** from the one-off
total, so the customer sees "pay this once, then this every cycle".

## Good to know

- How much of the recurring breakdown the summary shows — overall, per question, taxes — is set
  in the **Selection overview** section of **Settings**, with its own switches for recurring
  pricing (see [tour the Settings sections](https://docs.configbox.at/docs/admin-guide/settings/tour-the-settings-sections)).
- Nearly every price field has a recurring twin: base price, answer price, per-group/per-currency
  overrides. Fill only the ones that recur.
- Weight-based shipping and one-off surcharges are unaffected — recurring pricing runs alongside
  the normal price, it doesn't replace it.