Plans: Every plan; how many families can be active depends on the plan. Who: owners and admins add, edit, archive and restore families; every member can see them.
What belongs to a product family
The family’s page also shows its Current version, the number of Components and when the Last SBOM arrived. Pharus sets the current version for you: it is the highest product version among the SBOMs the family has received. The component count is the number of distinct components across the family’s active SBOMs.
Plan limits and extra families
Only active families count. Archived families don’t.
On yearly billing an extra family costs ten months. The workspace owner adds and removes extra families under Settings → Billing, in the Extra product families card. Extras are billed with the plan.
The subtitle on Settings → Product families shows how many families are in use and how many your plan covers. When the plan is full, Add product family is disabled and the page says what to do, for example: “Your Starter plan covers 1 product family. Add an extra one or change plan under Settings → Billing.”
The trial has no limit on product families. To choose a plan when it ends, your active families must fit in that plan with its extras. If they don’t, archive some first. See billing.
Add a product family
1
Open the families page
Go to Settings → Product families and select Add product family.
2
Name the family
Enter a Name, up to 80 characters, and an optional Description. The name must differ from your other active families; Pharus ignores upper and lower case when it compares them.
3
Choose the member states
Tick the Member states where the product is made available: any EU state, Iceland, Liechtenstein or Norway. Use Select all EU states or Clear selection to go faster. The member states go into the early warning.
4
Save
Select Add product family. Pharus opens the new family’s page, where you can set its reporting route and support periods.
Edit a product family
Open the family from Settings → Product families. Its page has these cards:- Details: Name, Description and Made available in the EU. Turn the switch off for a product that isn’t on the EU market: CRA reporting applies to products on the EU market, and the families list then shows “Not on the EU market”.
- Member states: where the product is made available.
- Reporting route: where the family’s reports go under CRA Art. 14(7). If your company is established in an EU state, every product family reports to the CSIRT there. Otherwise a family can use Inherit company route or set its own route. See routing.
- Support period: the end of security updates for each release line. See support periods.
Archive a product family
Archive a family you no longer ship, or to make room on your plan. You can’t delete a product family.1
Open the family
Go to Settings → Product families and open the family.
2
Archive it
At the bottom of the page, select Archive product family, then Archive family to confirm.
- stops counting towards your plan and is hidden from pickers;
- keeps its SBOMs, matches, incidents and audit trail;
- is no longer matched against vulnerabilities, and its matches leave the Vulnerabilities list (a vulnerability’s own page still shows them, marked “Archived family”);
- drops off the SBOMs page and the Settings → API tokens list, and its tokens stop working: pipelines get 401;
- keeps its technical documentation readable and downloadable, but not editable.
Archiving also works while the workspace is read-only, so you can shrink to fit a smaller plan. Adding, editing and restoring families need an active trial or subscription.