Subscriptions Use Cases

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• Use Case: Accept Recurring Donation Payments

  One common use for subscriptions is to accept recurring donations where the subscriber can choose a custom donation amount, then donation payments are made on a regular schedule. When creating a subscription product, a set price is required. However, extensions are available which allow your customers to set their own price, and these can be […]

• Use Case: Sell Subscriptions for Membership Access

  WooCommerce Subscriptions and WooCommerce Memberships are two powerful extensions that can be integrated to create a subscription-based membership system on your WooCommerce store. This guide will walk you through an example of how they can be integrated so that you can create a system where purchasing a subscription automatically grants membership access, and switching to […]

• Use Case: Update Subscription Prices for Existing Subscribers

  Scenario You’ve set up your shop and are happy with how well your weekly meal prep subscriptions are selling. Recently, you’ve noticed that the ingredients you used have increased in price, cutting into your profits. You don’t want to offer inferior products or cut corners to lower costs and have decided to increase the price […]

• Use Case: Monthly Coffee Subscription

  WooCommerce Subscriptions allows you to offer variable subscriptions, or subscriptions with different options, to your customers. This guide uses a monthly coffee subscription as an example of how to use variable subscriptions to sell different subscription options on one product page. Scenario and Requirements Scenario: You’ve always wanted to roast your own beans. You love […]

• Use Case: Charging Sign-up Fee after the Free Trial Period

  Scenario and Requirements WooCommerce Subscriptions allows you to charge a signup fee, and that’s great if the subscription product you’re providing has a one-time setup cost. However, Subscriptions charges the signup fee at the time of signup, irrespective of the trial period. So what happens if you want to charge the sign-up fee after the […]

• Use Case: Pet Food Subscription with All Products for WooCommerce Subscriptions

  Scenario Using the All Products for Woo Subscriptions extension, store owners can set up customizable product options for their pet food subscription in just a few easy steps. They can define the different options, such as different flavors or bag sizes, and set pricing rules based on the selected options. Customers can then select the […]

• Subscriptions Use Case: Corporate Purchasing

  Scenario You’re selling industry news content which you distribute each month to professionals in your industry. Some companies have approached you about signing up some of their employee’s to receive your content. Products Used for this Use Case WooCommerce WooCommerce Subscriptions WooCommerce Subscriptions Gifting Setup and Configuration Install Gifting for WooCommerce Subscriptions. Download the extension […]

• Subscriptions Switching Use Case: Changing Quantities

  Changing Quantities In addition to switching between different products or variations, it is also possible to switch between different quantities of the same product or variation. This is useful to allow customers to change the quantity of items on their subscription. For example, a customer subscribed to 2 bags of coffee per month might need […]

• Subscriptions Use Case: Gifting a Subscription Box

  Scenario You’re selling craft materials which you ship to your customers in a themed subscription box at the beginning of each month. Some of your customers have approached you about purchasing a box for their grandchild/niece/nephew. Products Used for this Use Case WooCommerce WooCommerce Subscriptions WooCommerce Subscriptions Gifting Setup and Configuration Install Gifting for WooCommerce […]

• Use Case: Coffee Beans Subscription Box

  Scenario You’ve always wanted to roast your own beans. You love the smell of coffee in the morning so much that you’ve started a store selling your coffee creations. You now want to offer your roasts on subscription, but need a bit of flexibility as your business is growing quickly: In short, you want to build […]