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Documents

• Creating a Subscription Product

  WooCommerce Subscriptions lets you create simple or variable subscription products or add subscription plans to supported non-subscription product types: Simple Products, Variable Products, Product Bundles, and Composite Products. If you’ve created other product types, much of the setup will feel familiar—but subscription products include additional settings to control the subscriber experience. Simple Subscriptions To create […]

• Creating an Aligned Subscription Product

  With billing date alignment enabled on a subscription product, you can align renewal payments for all subscribers to a specific day. This guide explains the process for creating or editing subscription products to align renewal dates, along with important information about how billing date alignment interacts with sign-up fees, free trials, coupons, and order statuses. […]

• Guide to Billing Date Alignment

  This guide provides general information about aligning subscription billing dates with the WooCommerce Subscriptions extension. If you already have billing date alignment configured on your store and are ready to create an aligned subscription product read: Creating an Aligned Subscription Product. If you’re new to WooCommerce Subscriptions and haven’t read about how the subscription renewal […]

• How Subscriptions Manages Stock

  Setting up inventory management for subscription products is generally no different than setting stock for a simple product or variable product. The key difference is the subscription renewal process which, by default, acts as a recurring inventory reduction mechanism. This guide explains how this process works. How Subscription Renewal Orders Impact Stock Quantity WooCommerce Subscriptions […]

• Migrating Subscribers to WooCommerce Subscriptions

  If you have an existing store that sells products on subscription using another system, you may wish to migrate your customers over to WooCommerce Subscriptions. Because in WooCommerce Subscriptions, a subscription agreement is linked to a product, customer, payment gateway and potentially one or many orders, migrating a subscription can be rather difficult. This guide […]

• Subscription Orders

  To track the life-cycle of a subscription, the WooCommerce Subscriptions extension creates relationships between orders and subscriptions. This guide provides an overview of each of these relationships and the corresponding order type. If you haven’t already, you should read the following: subscription renewal process, subscription switching, Subscriptions vs. Subscription Products, and WooCommerce orders. The information […]

• Subscription Products vs Subscriptions

  This guide provides a detailed description of both subscription products and subscriptions. It also provides examples to further illustrate the differences between them.  Pre-reading: The information here will be easier to understand if you know how the subscription renewal process works and are familiar with WooCommerce orders. The Difference Between Subscription Products and Subscriptions  WooCommerce Subscriptions […]

• Subscription Renewal Process

  This page provides details about how WooCommerce Subscriptions handles recurring payments through the subscription renewal process. Recurring Payments & the Renewal Process A key feature of a subscription is a recurring payment—a payment due at a regular interval over time (ex. monthly). These payments are the foundational block of a larger renewal process in WooCommerce […]

• Subscriptions General Settings

  Once installed and activated, WooCommerce Subscription extension settings can be found and set at WooCommerce > Settings > Subscriptions. This document explains each section of settings and what it controls. Storewide Subscription Plans Storewide subscription plans let you define global plans that make all supported products in your catalog available as subscriptions. Plans are configured […]

• WooCommerce Subscriptions Health Check

  The Subscriptions Health Check tool scans your store for subscriptions that may need attention. For example: subscriptions set to manual renewal when they could be renewing automatically based on your customer’s payment method, or subscriptions with missing or overdue renewal dates. The tool identifies subscriptions for your review. It never changes a subscription on its […]