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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: Coffee Subscription

    Scenario You own a Coffee Shop and would like to sell a coffee package to your users on a monthly basis. In addition to the package, you would like to offer the user the option to add a donation amount to their favorite coffee charity. This donation will become part of the subscription, so is […]

  • 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: skip a Subscriptions renewal based on signup date

    In the case of synchronized renewals, you might want to skip the immediate next renewal date if you charge the full recurring amount during the purchase for customers who buy the subscription after the first 10 days of the month. This use case explains how you can do that both using the standard settings in […]

  • 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 […]