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Start with our Introduction to WooCommerce Subscriptions, a premium WooCommerce extension that allows you to sell products and services with recurring payments.

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  • 2020 New Visa Requirements for Subscriptions with a Free Trial

    Visa is updating their conditions which govern the use of free-trials and introductory offers as part of an ongoing subscription service. We’ve put together this guide to step through what changes you need to make to comply. Do these changes apply to me?  The new requirements from Visa apply to your business if you offer […]

  • Creating a Synchronized Subscription Product

    With synchronized renewals activated for your store, you can create synchronized subscriptions products or modify existing subscriptions product to have a synchronized renewal date. This guide explains the process for creating or editing subscription products to synchronize renewal payments for all your customers and a few important pieces of information about how synchronized renewals work […]

  • Limitations of PayPal Standard with Subscriptions

    Although PayPal Standard can be used with Subscriptions, it is also one of the most limited payment gateways. For this reason, it is highly suggested that you understand the limitations that will exist for your subscriptions that use PayPal Standard. What does PayPal Standard not support? Multiple Subscriptions The multiple subscriptions restriction refers to the […]

  • Subscription Notifications

    Introduction Overview Subscription Notifications allow you to automatically send timely emails to subscribers to keep them informed about important subscription events, such as upcoming renewals, expirations, and the end of free trials. The notifications that you can enable and customize are: Getting Started Notification Settings To configure subscription notifications: Enabling Renewal Reminders After enabling subscription […]

  • Subscriptions Guided Tour

    We start with explaining the power of Subscriptions and run all the way through choosing a payment method, settings, creating products, viewing reports, and all of the ways to manage your customers subscriptions. Click on any of the titles to watch what you want from our Subscriptions Guided Tour. Enjoy!   Setup & Creation A Subscriptions Primer Choosing […]

  • All Products for WooCommerce Subscriptions

    Overview All Products for WooCommerce Subscriptions (APfS) allows you to add subscription plans to existing products. It also introduces features that give customers more freedom to create and manage subscriptions. With APfS, customers can: Requirements All Products for WooCommerce Subscriptions requires: Documentation Contents Store Owner’s Guide Use Cases Customize & Extend Compatibility FAQ & Feedback […]

  • Subscriptions and the GDPR

    Woo Subscriptions supports the tools that enable store managers to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This support is built on the functionality included in WooCommerce and WordPress. Below is information on how these two handle customer data. Data Subscriptions Uses Subscriptions accesses and records data similar to WooCommerce. The data used by […]

  • Suspend, Cancel, or Remove an Item

    This guide explains how, using WooCommerce Subscriptions, a store manager, customer, or both would suspend a subscription, cancel a subscription, or a remove one or more items from a subscription. Requirements to Suspend or Cancel Subscriptions Active subscriptions display a Cancel button by default on the View Subscription page. There is no setting to disable cancellations; the […]

  • Enabling Payment Gateways for Subscriptions

    WooCommerce Subscriptions is compatible with many payment gateways that have the features necessary for processing automatic payments. No Available Payment Gateways Warning During the checkout process, Subscriptions will offer a warning if there are no gateways enabled that support Subscriptions and manual payments are not accepted. This message appears on the checkout page in the […]

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