--- title: "Plan step" description: "The plan step is your position on Fincanva's paid-plan scale, shown as Step {rank} of {total} on the plan card. Free sits at step 0, unheld." canonical_url: "https://fincanva.com/docs/account-security/plan-step" last_updated: "2026-09-07" md_url: "https://fincanva.com/docs/account-security/plan-step.md" --- # Plan step A plan step is your account's position on the ordered scale of Fincanva's paid plans, and it is what the plan card in **Settings → Billing** reports next to your plan name: `Step {rank} of {total}`. The scale runs Starter, Advanced, Ultimate — three steps, so `{total}` reads 3 — and `{rank}` is where your held plan sits on it: Starter is step 1, Advanced step 2, Ultimate step 3. **Free is not on this scale at all** — it sits at step 0, and the app treats that as *unheld*, not as a missing or broken value. **Also seen as:** plan rank; plan level ## Why does the plan card say "step" in English but "livello" in Italian? Because that is the word each language's plan card actually shows today: the English card reads `Step {rank} of {total}`, and the Italian card reads `Livello {rank} di {total}` — literally "level", not a translation of "step". Both name the same figure on the same control. This page follows each catalogue's own word rather than picking one to translate into the other, because which word is the right one is still an open naming question inside Fincanva — not a decision this page settles. ## Which plans are on the scale, and which are not? Only the three plans you can hold through checkout are on it: **Starter** (step 1), **Advanced** (step 2), and **Ultimate** (step 3), so `{total}` is 3. Two plans sit outside it, for different reasons: - **Free is step 0.** It is the account you have before subscribing to anything, so the scale still applies to it — it is simply unheld. The plan card still shows the indicator for a Free account, at step 0 of 3. - **Professional does not appear on the scale at all.** It is not sold through checkout — [what each plan includes](/docs/account-security/what-each-plan-includes) covers how it is reached — so the plan card shows no step indicator for it: not step 4 of 3, no indicator. A Professional subscriber's card reads **Custom** instead of a step. ## Is this the same as the five plans listed on "what each plan includes"? It is the same ordering, seen from two different widths. [What each plan includes](/docs/account-security/what-each-plan-includes) describes Fincanva's full plan ordering — Free, Starter, Advanced, Ultimate, Professional, five in ascending order of what each unlocks. The plan card's step scale is the narrower view drawn from the same order: it counts only the plans a held subscription can actually be, which is why its own total reads 3 rather than 5. Free is the floor of the wider order and Professional is its top, and neither is ever assigned as a *held* step on the card — which is exactly why the card's own scale starts at Starter and stops at Ultimate. ## Is this the same "step" as the one on Settings → Usage? No — they answer different questions from the same word. This page's step is about your **subscription**: which of the three sellable plans it names, shown on the plan card. [What Settings → Usage tells you](/docs/account-security/what-settings-usage-tells-you) reads a different figure — the *capability* actually enforced on your account right now. The two agree for every account holding one of the three sellable plans, including throughout a [30-day trial](/docs/account-security/the-30-day-trial), which runs at the plan you chose rather than at a step of its own. They part company on **Professional**, which is a real enforced capability but not one of the three plans this scale counts: the plan card shows no step there at all, while Settings → Usage still shows Professional's figures. Neither page is wrong; they are naming two different things that happen to use the same word. ## Defaults in Fincanva - The plan card in **Settings → Billing** shows the step indicator next to your plan name whenever your account holds one of the three paid, checkout-sold plans, or is on Free (step 0). During a trial it shows the step of the plan you chose to trial, which is also the plan being enforced. - A Professional (custom) account shows no step indicator at all — the figure the scale would answer does not apply to a plan with no published price. - `{rank}` and `{total}` are read live from the plans Fincanva actually sells today; this page states the current scale rather than a number to remember, since a plan Fincanva adds or retires from checkout changes `{total}` without needing a new word for the concept. ## Worked example An account on **Advanced** opens **Settings → Billing** and sees its plan card read **Step 2 of 3** (English) or **Livello 2 di 3** (Italian) beside the plan name: Advanced is the middle of the three sellable plans, one above Starter and one below Ultimate. An account on **Free** sees the same indicator read **Step 0 of 3** — no plan held yet, not an error. An account on **Professional** sees no step indicator at all, because Professional is not one of the three plans the scale counts. A Starter trialer sees **Step 1 of 3** on the plan card from the first day of the trial, and Starter's own limits are what the account runs under while the trial lasts — the same figures [what Settings → Usage tells you](/docs/account-security/what-settings-usage-tells-you) reports.