WooCommerce Subscriptions

I would like to suggest a feature enhancement for WooCommerce Subscriptions related to free trial handling in variable subscription products.

Currently, if a subscription product has multiple variations, users can exploit the free trial by subscribing to one variation, canceling, and then subscribing to a different variation to get the free trial again. This can lead to repeated use of the trial period across variations of what is essentially the same product.

Feature Request:
Please consider adding an option (either in the product settings or globally) to limit the free trial to one-time use per user per subscription product, regardless of which variation they choose. This would prevent users from re-subscribing to different variations of the same product and receiving the free trial multiple times.

Why it matters:

This behavior is exploitable and affects subscription revenue.

It undermines the idea of a limited-time trial as an incentive.

Currently, handling this requires custom code and is not natively supported.

As a developer, I’m currently working around this limitation with custom PHP code, but having native support would be much cleaner and safer for merchants.

Thank you for considering this feature. I believe it would be a valuable addition for many store owners using variable subscription products.

Best regards,