WooCommerce Payments: Subscriptions

WooCommerce Payments supports selling subscription products. Unlike other payment gateways, which require the use of the Subscriptions extension, WooCommerce Payments offers built-in subscriptions functionality that can be used without any other plugin.

Our overview document explains the requirements you must meet to use subscriptions, how to set up subscription products, and other such basics.

Comparison to the Subscriptions extension

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The standalone Subscriptions extension is one of our most popular extensions. If you’re wondering how it compares to the subscriptions functionality built into WooCommerce Payments, we have a document that outlines the differences.

Also note that many extensions which are intended to work with Subscriptions will also work with the WooCommerce Payments subscriptions functionality.

If you are already using one subscription offering and want to migrate to the other option, please refer to our guides here:

• Moving from the Subscriptions extension to WooCommerce Payments
• Moving from WooCommerce Payments to the Subscriptions extension

Frequently asked questions

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• What happens to my subscriptions if I disable the WooCommerce Payments gateway?
• What happens to my subscriptions if I deactivate WooCommerce Payments?
• What happens if I deactivate Subscriptions or WooCommerce Payments or both?
• Why is there a subscription item in my WooCommerce menu?