Source: Schema.org v30.1 offline vocabulary. Official UnitPriceSpecification definition.
What is UnitPriceSpecification?
The price asked for a given offer by the respective organization or person.
Example JSON-LD skeleton
This minimal example only identifies a Schema.org type. It is not a complete entity, a Google rich-result test, or a claim about a real business.
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "UnitPriceSpecification"
}Full parent hierarchy
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- Thing → Intangible → StructuredValue → PriceSpecification → UnitPriceSpecification
Direct parents: PriceSpecification
Child types (0)
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Properties that accept UnitPriceSpecification values (3)
| Property | On types | Description |
|---|---|---|
| currentExchangeRate | ExchangeRateSpecification | The current price of a currency. |
| hasTierRequirement | MemberProgramTier | A requirement for a user to join a membership tier, for example: a CreditCard if the tier requires sign up for a credit card, A UnitPriceSpecification if the user is required to pay a (periodic) fee, or a MonetaryAmount if the user needs to spend a minimum amount to join the tier. If a tier is free to join then this property does not need to be specified. |
| incentiveAmount | FinancialIncentive | Describes the amount that can be redeemed from this incentive. <p>[[QuantitativeValue]]: Use this for incentives based on price (either raw amount or percentage-based). For a raw amount example, "You can claim $2,500 - $7,500 from the total cost of installation" would be represented as the following:</p> { "@type": "QuantitativeValue", “minValue”: 2500, “maxValue”: 7500, "unitCode": "USD" } <p>[[QuantitativeValue]] can also be used for percentage amounts. In such cases, value is used to represent the incentive’s percentage, while maxValue represents a limit (if one exists) to that incentive. The unitCode should be 'P1' and the unitText should be '%', while valueReference should be used for holding the currency type. For example, "You can claim up to 30% of the total cost of installation, up to a maximum of $7,500" would be:</p> { "@type": "QuantitativeValue", "value": 30, "unitCode": "P1", "unitText": "%", “maxValue”: 7500, “valueReference”: “USD” } <p>[[UnitPriceSpecification]]: Use this for incentives that are based on amounts rather than price. For example, a net metering rebate that pays $10/kWh, up to $1,000:</p> { "@type": "UnitPriceSpecification", "price": 10, "priceCurrency": "USD", "referenceQuantity": 1, "unitCode": "DO3", "unitText": "kw/h", "maxPrice": 1000, "description": "$10 / kwh up to $1000" } <p>[[LoanOrCredit]]: Use for incentives that are loan based. For example, a loan of $4,000 - $50,000 with a repayment term of 10 years, interest free would look like:</p> { "@type": "LoanOrCredit", "loanTerm": { "@type":"QuantitativeValue", "value":"10", "unitCode": "ANN" }, "amount":[ { "@type": "QuantitativeValue", "Name":"fixed interest rate", "value":"0", }, ], "amount":[ { "@type": "MonetaryAmount", "Name":"min loan amount", "value":"4000", "currency":"CAD" }, { "@type": "MonetaryAmount", "Name":"max loan amount", "value":"50000", "currency":"CAD" } ], } In summary: <ul><li>Use [[QuantitativeValue]] for absolute/percentage-based incentives applied on the price of a good/service.</li> <li>Use [[UnitPriceSpecification]] for incentives based on a per-unit basis (e.g. net metering).</li> <li>Use [[LoanOrCredit]] for loans/credits.</li> </ul>. |
Properties usable on UnitPriceSpecification (32)
This list includes properties whose domainIncludes names UnitPriceSpecification or one of its ancestors. DomainIncludes is advisory; it is not an exhaustive set of permitted properties.
| Property | Expected value types | Description |
|---|---|---|
| additionalType | Text, URL | An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax. This is a relationship between something and a class that the thing is in. Typically the value is a URI-identified RDF class, and in this case corresponds to the use of rdf:type in RDF. Text values can be used sparingly, for cases where useful information can be added without their being an appropriate schema to reference. In the case of text values, the class label should follow the schema.org <a href="https://schema.org/docs/styleguide.html">style guide</a>. |
| alternateName | Text | An alias for the item. |
| billingDuration | Duration, Number, QuantitativeValue | Specifies for how long this price (or price component) will be billed. Can be used, for example, to model the contractual duration of a subscription or payment plan. Type can be either a Duration or a Number (in which case the unit of measurement, for example month, is specified by the unitCode property). |
| billingIncrement | Number | This property specifies the minimal quantity and rounding increment that will be the basis for the billing. The unit of measurement is specified by the unitCode property. |
| billingStart | Number | Specifies after how much time this price (or price component) becomes valid and billing starts. Can be used, for example, to model a price increase after the first year of a subscription. The unit of measurement is specified by the unitCode property. |
| description | Text, TextObject | A description of the item. |
| disambiguatingDescription | Text | A sub property of description. A short description of the item used to disambiguate from other, similar items. Information from other properties (in particular, name) may be necessary for the description to be useful for disambiguation. |
| eligibleQuantity | QuantitativeValue | The interval and unit of measurement of ordering quantities for which the offer or price specification is valid. This allows e.g. specifying that a certain freight charge is valid only for a certain quantity. |
| eligibleTransactionVolume | PriceSpecification | The transaction volume, in a monetary unit, for which the offer or price specification is valid, e.g. for indicating a minimal purchasing volume, to express free shipping above a certain order volume, or to limit the acceptance of credit cards to purchases to a certain minimal amount. |
| identifier | PropertyValue, Text, URL | The identifier property represents any kind of identifier for any kind of [[Thing]], such as ISBNs, GTIN codes, UUIDs etc. Schema.org provides dedicated properties for representing many of these, either as textual strings or as URL (URI) links. See [background notes](/docs/datamodel.html#identifierBg) for more details. |
| image | ImageObject, URL | An image of the item. This can be a [[URL]] or a fully described [[ImageObject]]. |
| mainEntityOfPage | CreativeWork, URL | Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See [background notes](/docs/datamodel.html#mainEntityBackground) for details. |
| maxPrice | Number | The highest price if the price is a range. |
| membershipPointsEarned | Number, QuantitativeValue | The number of membership points earned by the member. If necessary, the unitText can be used to express the units the points are issued in. (E.g. stars, miles, etc.) |
| minPrice | Number | The lowest price if the price is a range. |
| name | Text | The name of the item. |
| owner | Organization, Person | A person or organization who owns this Thing. |
| potentialAction | Action | Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role. |
| price | Number, Text | The offer price of a product, or of a price component when attached to PriceSpecification and its subtypes.\n\nUsage guidelines:\n\n* Use the [[priceCurrency]] property (with standard formats: [ISO 4217 currency format](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217), e.g. "USD"; [Ticker symbol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cryptocurrencies) for cryptocurrencies, e.g. "BTC"; well known names for [Local Exchange Trading Systems](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_exchange_trading_system) (LETS) and other currency types, e.g. "Ithaca HOUR") instead of including [ambiguous symbols](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign#Currencies_that_use_the_dollar_or_peso_sign) such as '$' in the value.\n* Use '.' (Unicode 'FULL STOP' (U+002E)) rather than ',' to indicate a decimal point. Avoid using these symbols as a readability separator.\n* Note that both [RDFa](http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/#using-the-content-attribute) and Microdata syntax allow the use of a "content=" attribute for publishing simple machine-readable values alongside more human-friendly formatting.\n* Use values from 0123456789 (Unicode 'DIGIT ZERO' (U+0030) to 'DIGIT NINE' (U+0039)) rather than superficially similar Unicode symbols. |
| priceComponentType | PriceComponentTypeEnumeration | Identifies a price component (for example, a line item on an invoice), part of the total price for an offer. |
| priceCurrency | Text | The currency of the price, or a price component when attached to [[PriceSpecification]] and its subtypes.\n\nUse standard formats: [ISO 4217 currency format](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217), e.g. "USD"; [Ticker symbol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cryptocurrencies) for cryptocurrencies, e.g. "BTC"; well known names for [Local Exchange Trading Systems](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_exchange_trading_system) (LETS) and other currency types, e.g. "Ithaca HOUR". |
| priceType | PriceTypeEnumeration, Text | Defines the type of a price specified for an offered product, for example a list price, a (temporary) sale price or a manufacturer suggested retail price. If multiple prices are specified for an offer the [[priceType]] property can be used to identify the type of each such specified price. The value of priceType can be specified as a value from enumeration PriceTypeEnumeration or, a UN/EDIFACT 5387 code, or as a free form text string for price types that are not already predefined in PriceTypeEnumeration. |
| referenceQuantity | QuantitativeValue | The reference quantity for which a certain price applies, e.g. 1 EUR per 4 kWh of electricity. This property is a replacement for unitOfMeasurement for the advanced cases where the price does not relate to a standard unit. |
| sameAs | URL | URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Wikidata entry, or official website. |
| subjectOf | CreativeWork, Event | A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing. |
| unitCode | Text, URL | The unit of measurement given using the UN/CEFACT Common Code (3 characters) or a URL. Other codes than the UN/CEFACT Common Code may be used with a prefix followed by a colon. |
| unitText | Text | A string or text indicating the unit of measurement. Useful if you cannot provide a standard unit code for <a href='unitCode'>unitCode</a>. |
| url | URL | URL of the item. |
| validForMemberTier | MemberProgramTier | The membership program tier(s) an Offer (or a PriceSpecification, OfferShippingDetails, or MerchantReturnPolicy under an Offer) is valid for. |
| validFrom | Date, DateTime | The date when the item becomes valid. |
| validThrough | Date, DateTime | The date after when the item is not valid. For example the end of an offer, salary period, or a period of opening hours. |
| valueAddedTaxIncluded | Boolean | Specifies whether the applicable value-added tax (VAT) is included in the price specification or not. |
Schema.org vs Google
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