WooCommerce Subscriptions was first released in June 2012 and in the many years since, it’s seen significant improvements in both available features, reliability, and scalability. This document showcases some of the historical releases that have contributed to those improvements.
Version 3.0
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- Updating Action Scheduler to increase throughput and scalability. Action Scheduler is the library used by Subscriptions that handles scheduling and running timed actions.
- Subscription and order status visual updates on admin screens.
Version 2.6
↑ Back to top- Improved early renewal experience with a modal. Customers can now use a modal to complete their early renewal or choose to go through checkout.
- View which subscriptions and orders contribute to report figures. In the reports screen, managers can click on the report figure and be taken to a table with the subscriptions and orders that contribute to that figure.
- Switching calculations were improved, fixing a number of switching-related bugs.
- Improved handling of unloadable orders in the related orders table. Orders that for a reason cannot be loaded in the related orders table will now have the number listed and a link to documentation.
Version 2.5
↑ Back to top- Allowing customers to sign up to free trial and synced products without payment details.
- A customer-facing auto-renew toggle. This will allow customers to turn on and off automatic renewal payments from their My Account page.
- A new option when customers change a subscription’s payment method which will allow them to update all their subscriptions to use this new payment method.
- Improved payment method details displayed on the customer’s View Subscriptions page.
Version 2.4
↑ Back to top- Moving failed payment retry data out of the posts and post meta tables and into a custom table.
- Subscriptions now requires WooCommerce versions above 3.0 to be installed on the site.
- Separating a subscription’s start date from its creation date.
- Implementing an autoloader to include our plugin files.
Version 2.3
↑ Back to top- a feature to define the number of cycles a recurring coupon discounts. For example, a $10 coupon may be used to discount only the first 3 months of a 12 month subscription.
- a way to charge the full recurring payments for a synchronized subscription product at the time of sign-up
- allow customers to renew a subscription early.
Version 2.2
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↑ Back to top- Automatic retry system for failed renewal payments (dunning).
- Advanced subscription reports, including reporting on:
- Subscriber churn
- Average subscriber lifetime value
- Revenue forecasts based on upcoming renewals
- Retention curve for the life of your subscribers
- New subscription emails to notify store managers when:
- a subscription expires
- a renewal payment fails
- a subscription is suspended by the subscriber
Version 2.0
↑ Back to top- Purchase multiple different subscription products in the same transaction (for payment gateways which support it). Note: it’s already possible for a customer to purchase multiple subscriptions, they just need to checkout separately for each subscription.
- New Add/Edit Subscription administration screen for manually adding or changing a subscription’s details – rather than having to do it from the Edit Order screen.
- For developers: a new subscription object, to replace the current subscription array, making it much easier to get the details of a subscription. The subscription key identifier will also be deprecated in favor of a real ID.
- For developers: subscription endpoints for the WooCommerce REST API
Version 1.5
↑ Back to top- Purchase multiple products and a subscription in the same checkout.
- Payment date sync – align payment/expiration dates automatically.
- Support quantities – instead of forcing subscription products to be sold individually, allow a customer to choose the quantity to purchase.
- New Subscription Switched emails.
- New Scheduling System to allow for payment date synchronization which potentially needs to process a queue of thousands of payments due at the same time.
Version 1.4
↑ Back to top- Complete database restructure to remove performance bottlenecks for sites with 5,000+ subscriptions
- Upgrade/downgrade subscriptions from one product to another
- Change payment method on a subscription
- Subscription specific emails using the WooCommerce 2.0 Email API to allow for customization and modification of subscription related emails
- New Subscription Cancelled email send to store managers
- Improve memory usage by working with the WooCommerce 2.0 dynamic payment gateway loading system