WooPayments is compatible with the Woo Subscriptions extension, which means that your customers can pay for their recurring charges using WooPayments.
Note that, although WooPayments can accept one-off orders via alternative payment methods, only card payments and express checkout methods can be used for automatic subscription renewals.
NOTE: Prior to version 6.6.0, WooPayments offered a built-in subscriptions feature that did not require Woo Subscriptions.
As of version 6.6.0, the built-in subscriptions functionality is no longer available to merchants who were not already using it. The Stripe Billing feature explained below is similar, but you must now have the Woo Subscriptions extension installed as well to use it.
Billing engines and Stripe Billing
↑ Back to topBesides basic compatibility with Woo Subscriptions, WooPayments also offers one additional feature to Woo Subscriptions users: the ability to utilize an off-site billing engine powered by our payments partner, Stripe. This is called Stripe Billing.
With the Woo Subscriptions extension, your WooCommerce site initiates automatic recurring payments, which are then processed by the payment gateway the customer chose during checkout. This is called an “on-site” billing engine.
An alternative approach is to have the payment gateway itself initiate the recurring payment. This is an “off-site” billing engine, and it’s how Stripe Billing works.
Please see our full guide to the Stripe Billing setting for more information.