WooCommerce Subscriptions
Let customers subscribe to your products or services and pay on a weekly, monthly or annual basis.
Subscriptions that ship on a different schedule to billing e.g. pay annually, ship monthly.
It is very common for companies to allow a customer to pay up front for a subscription and still receive the product monthly. It would be great to have this option in the subscription plug-in. Payment settings and how often the product ships should be separate settings.
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Last updated: August 10, 2013
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Some subscriptions allow you to pay annually but receive shipments on a different schedule, such as monthly. This model helps businesses with upfront revenue while giving customers more frequent deliveries. It’s common in services like beauty boxes, meal kits, or curated goods, where customers benefit from a consistent experience without the need to make payments each time.
Certain subscription services operate on a disparate schedule between billing and shipping. For instance, customers may opt to pay annually while receiving their shipments on a monthly basis. This approach allows for greater flexibility and convenience, aligning with varying consumer preferences and budgeting needs. By decoupling billing cycles from shipping intervals, subscribers can enjoy consistent product deliveries without the hassle of frequent financial transactions.
This functionality is critical to my business. We sell subscriptions for a CSA, and customers pay for the full 16-week season in advance, then receive weekly veggie shares throughout the season. Separating the billing and shipping components is a baseline requirement for any software to support our business. It’s mind-boggling that this feature was first raised 10 years ago, and still no movement?
Can’t believe this is still not available. Ironically, Woo has it on their own shop! https://ibb.co/GnrZcFk
Wow I can’t believe Woocommerce took this much requested feature and actually turned it into a separate product for subscription! How stingy is that?! I already pay $239 a year and now I have to pay an extra $79 to get what should be a basic function. Terrible.
yes I need this….monthly payment with weekly order delivered
We need this one fast!!!
Is there such a plugin already?
Is this being worked on yet? I understand that this feature needs to be implemented very thoroughly as there are a few things to consider like cancelling a prepaid subscription with outstanding paid shipments, etc. but it is overdue to be implemented! I saw this plugin is offering what the feature request is asking for: https://woocommerce.com/products/prepaid-for-woocommerce-subscriptions/ however, with such a core subscriptions feature, I would only trust a plugin developed by WooCommcerce. It has become such a key feature that we are considering switching platform to a provider that can customise and manage such a feature…
This is super, super basic functionality for a subscription service. If I knew this couldn’t be done, I would’ve never purchased. We want to start 3-month, 6-month, and yealry subscription options vidmate.icu
I want to convert my website: https://remotecodesportal.com/ into an ecommerce store using woocommerce and I need guidance on that. Thank you
Hi,
I have coded this solution for a customer and can code it again for any person that needs it.
Cheers,
Gabriel
Really hoping this is a feature that’s added soon. We are currently trying to find feasible ways to work around the frustration, as it’s such an essential feature that’s lacking right now.
Need this so much….
Having read all of the other comments I am genuinely surprised this hasn’t been built in already.
As a heads up, we have something in our marketplace just for this: Prepaid for WooCommerce Subscriptions: https://woocommerce.com/products/prepaid-for-woocommerce-subscriptions/
NEED THIS FEATURE
I hope this will happen soon. I’d like to be able to bill customers a monthly subscription fee but ship the goods quarterly. This helps the customer spread the cost of the sub and reduces the shipping cost and carbon footprint. Also, there will need to be a way to differentiate whether the order is a new subscription customer, a monthly recurring sub/fee collection, or a quarterly physical order that needs to be dispatched.
We run this on a spreadsheet atm but as we grow this will become unmanageable.
Here is the plugin for this purpose – https://woocommerce.com/products/prepaid-for-woocommerce-subscriptions. You can make prepaid plans and let your users get deliveries on different schedule to payments (eg: pay yearly, ship monthly).
Definitely need this. I have a client that has a monthly pdf magazine, and so far setting it up through WooCommerce has been a bit of a nightmare. All we need is to be able to have the new issue available to all subscribers each month on release, without all previous issues that were part of the sub being available to new subscribers too. I can’t do that with Woo Subscriptions or even AutomateWoo it seems, which is shocking as this is one of the most common and basic setups for an ongoing subscription. I just need to be able to change the associated PDF each month without either removing the past issues from all existing subscribers accounts and without giving new subscribers access to all previous months issues.
Here is a video tutorial I created that shows how to set up a subscription that ships on a different schedule: https://youtu.be/AYistm0IB8c.
The tutorial goes over how to bill for a subscription product yearly ($120/year) but still ship monthly. This logic can be applied to a bunch of different scenarios.
Disclaimer: I am the one who created the tutorial 🙂
PS: is there a way to remove all the spam on these ideas boards? Lol it’s getting out of hand
This is available in Enhancer for WooCommerce Subscriptions https://woocommerce.com/products/enhancer-for-woocommerce-subscriptions.
Thank you.
Here is a video tutorial I created that shows how to set up a subscription that ships on a different schedule: https://youtu.be/AYistm0IB8c.
The tutorial goes over how to bill for a subscription product yearly ($120/year) but still ship monthly. This logic can be applied to a bunch of different scenarios.
Disclaimer: I am the one who created the tutorial 🙂
PS: is there a way to remove all the spam on these ideas boards? Lol it’s getting out of hand
For customers, it is a win situation – less fuzz about constantly managing payments. They might also have acess to discounts, since they are upfronting the money for several orders at once.
For companies, it is great also – we have an advancement of income, sometimes months ahead of actually shipping products. It does wonders for cash flow
Seriously.. this is more important than many other things you are currently working on. Please consider implementing this in 2021. Thanks!