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title: "Creating a Discount Rate Card"
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# Creating a Discount Rate Card

Discount rate cards allow you to specify a discount on the on-demand pricing plan for the appropriate integrated cloud provider. You can specify a single discount rate or itemized discount rates for components of the Kubernetes infrastructure such as nodes, storage, networking, load balancers, etc. to best reflect your effective cost.

See [Rate Cards Explained](https://resources.realtheory.io/docs/rate-cards-explained) for more information about rate cards.

## Prerequisite

To manage rate cards, you must have one of the following roles assigned to your user account:

- *sys_admin*
- *rate_card_admin*

## Procedure

1. As a user with either the *sys_admin* or *rate_card_admin* role, navigate to **Settings** > **Cost** > **Rate Cards**.
2. Click **Create New**.
3. Select **Discount Rate Card**.
4. Click **Next**.
5. Provide a unique name for the new rate card.
6. Add a description that will help you remember the purpose and scope of the new rate card.
7. If your effective pricing plan can be reflected in a single discount rate on pay-as-you-go pricing, select **All Kubernetes infrastructure** and enter the discount rate.
8. If your effective pricing plan is best reflected in custom discount rates on pay-as-you-go pricing for components of the Kubernetes infrastructure, select **Selected Kubernetes infrastructure** and enter the discount rate for each component.

**Note:** If you do not want to specify a discount for a particular component, click the component toggle control to disable that option.
9. After you have provided all the discount rates you want used for cost analysis, do one of the following:
  - If you are directly assigning the new rate card to the appropriate clusters, click **Save and Assign**. Go to Step 10.
  - If you are using rate card policies to assign rate cards to the appropriate clusters, click **Save** and then go to **Settings** > **Cost** > **Rate Card Policies** to verify that you have a rate card policy that applies this rate card to the appropriate cluster(s).
10. In the **Assign rate card to clusters** view, select the clusters that should use the new rate card.
11. Click **Update**.

The new rate card will be assigned to the selected clusters. As cost data is collected, it will be made available.

**See Also** [Rate Cards Explained](https://resources.realtheory.io/docs/rate-cards-explained) [Creating Rate Card Policies](https://resources.realtheory.io/docs/creating-rate-card-policies)