> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.paygentic.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Products

> Organize your services and offerings

Products are the top-level containers in Paygentic's billing system. Each product represents a distinct service or offering you provide to customers.

## What's a product?

A product groups everything related to a single service:

* The metrics you track
* The pricing plans available
* Customer subscriptions
* Usage data and analytics

Think of products as separate business lines. If you offer both an LLM service and a data warehouse, those would be two different products.

## Creating products

Products require minimal configuration:

* **Name** - Customer-facing display name (e.g., "Neural Network Training", "Cloud Analytics")
* **Description** - Brief explanation shown during checkout
* **Metadata** - Optional key-value pairs for internal tracking

## When to create products

Create separate products when you have:

* Distinct services with different metrics
* Independent pricing strategies
* Separate customer bases
* Different billing cycles or payment terms

## Examples

**Single Product Strategy**

A machine learning platform might have one product:

* **Product:** "ML Training Platform"
* **Metrics:** GPU hours, model storage, inference requests
* **Plans:** Researcher, Startup, Enterprise

**Multi-Product Strategy**

A data company might separate services:

* **Product 1:** "Data Warehouse"
  * Metrics: Storage TB, compute hours, queries
  * Plans: Developer, Business, Enterprise

* **Product 2:** "Stream Processing"
  * Metrics: Events processed, throughput GB
  * Plans: Basic, Professional, Scale

* **Product 3:** "ML Pipeline"
  * Metrics: Training jobs, model deployments, predictions
  * Plans: Starter, Growth, Custom

## Best practices

**Keep it simple.** Don't over-segment. One product can support multiple plans and customer types.

**Think customer-first.** Products should align with how customers think about your services.

**Plan for growth.** Structure products to accommodate future features without major refactoring.

## Analytics

Paygentic provides product-level analytics:

* Revenue breakdown
* Usage patterns
* Customer distribution
* Growth metrics

This segmentation helps you understand which services drive your business.

## Next steps

With products defined, you'll need to:

1. [Add billable metrics](/platform/pricing/billable-metrics) to track usage
2. [Create plans](/platform/pricing/plans) for different customer segments
3. [Set prices](/platform/pricing/prices) for each metric