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# Getting Started

Welcome to the **Flash Subscription API**! Flash makes it easy to manage and monetize recurring payments using Bitcoin Lightning. This is the starting point for creating your subscription plans, integrating APIs, and receiving real-time updates via webhooks.

## In this section

Learn how to:

* **Create your first Subscription Plan:** use the Flash web app to setup the parameters of your choice and get a checkout page url for you subscription plan.
* **Pre-Full User Details**: you can customise the checkout page url by passing user information (email, npub and external user id - you can pass your backend user id as well) 


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