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Products overview
Products are sellable software packages you create in CNAP. They combine your application’s deployment configuration with pricing to enable customers to purchase and deploy your software through the or direct links. When you create a product, CNAP automatically creates a from your sources, generates a , and makes it available for deployment. Products with pricing automatically appear in the marketplace.

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How Products Work

Products package your software for sale. Each product includes:
  • Deployment configuration — Helm charts and sources that define how your software runs
  • Pricing — optional Stripe integration for customer billing
  • Cluster targeting — which the product can be deployed to
  • Display settings — custom images, descriptions, and visibility options
When customers purchase your product, CNAP automatically deploys it to the selected cluster after payment. Each customer gets their own isolated with dedicated resources.

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Products and Templates

Products are powered by templates, which store your Helm source configurations. When you create a product:
  1. A template is automatically created from your Helm sources
  2. The template generates a versioned package (e.g., 0.1.0)
  3. The product references the template and adds pricing configuration
  4. Updates to the product’s sources update the underlying template
One template can power multiple products, or be deployed directly without pricing as a standalone install. Learn more about templates →

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When to Use Products

Use products when you want to sell software to customers:
  • Open source monetization — offer managed, dedicated deployments of your OSS project (databases, dev tools, analytics, CMS, etc.) as a cloud service without building multi-tenant infrastructure
  • SaaS with dedicated instances — enterprise customers who need isolation get their own deployment (healthcare, finance, collaboration tools)
  • Managed database services — offer dedicated database clusters (PostgreSQL, Redis, ClickHouse, etc.) per customer
  • Custom applications — B2B SaaS, industry-specific software, white-label solutions, or internal tools turned into products
Products with Stripe pricing automatically appear in the marketplace, making them discoverable to all CNAP users. You can also sell products directly by linking to the product’s deployment page from your own website.

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Products vs. Direct Installs

ProductsDirect Installs
PurposeSell software to customersInternal tools, shared databases, monitoring
PricingOptional Stripe integrationNo pricing
MarketplaceListed when pricing is configuredNot listed
TemplateAuto-created from Helm sourcesAuto-created from Helm sources
Both use templates automatically created from your Helm sources. Learn more about application deployments →

Templates

Understand how templates power products

Marketplace

Learn how products appear in the marketplace

Deployments

See how products create customer installations

Payments

Understand how Stripe integration works

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Creating a Product

Onboard your product through the Products Dashboard.
adding a product
You can select the Helm package from Artifact Hub.
Our roadmap includes support for Helm charts hosted on private Git/OCI repositories in the near future.
Select to which the product can be deployed. Users will only see the regions of the clusters when they are deploying the product. Checkout Clusters for more information.

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Pricing products

If you require users to pay for deployments of a product, you can link a CNAP product with one or more from one or more .
1

Connect with Stripe

Make sure to connect with Stripe in the Settings of your workspace to onboard with a to CNAP.
connect stripe
2

Create Stripe prices

Once Stripe is connected, you can associate Stripe prices with the CNAP product.
empty prices
Create a Stripe product with prices in the Stripe dashboard.
stripe add product
You can edit the Stripe product to add even more prices, e.g.:
  • €10/month subscription
  • €50 one-time setup fee
stripe edit product
3

Select Stripe prices

As soon as the Stripe products and prices are created, they will be immediately loaded and available for selection in CNAP.
price selection
All prices you select for the CNAP product will apply when users checkout the product in the marketplace. You can also create more Stripe products and select their prices for the same CNAP product if you need to (e.g. a deployment consists of multiple services).
Click “Add Product” to create the product.
Congrats! You’re set up to start your hosting, and it’s batteries included! Need support or want to give some feedback? You can join our Discord-Community or drop us an email at support@cnap.tech.