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WooCommerce Subscriptions

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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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  1. Laurence says:

    My client offers a monthly subscription, but allows add-ons that affect a weekly delivery schedule.

  2. Todd says:

    How has this not been added yet??? This thread is from 2013. Insane. Almost all Subscription companies would use this

  3. Anonymous says:

    Yes I agree. This needs to be an option as 99% of subscription companies offer this and will help run efficiently.

  4. Alberto Contreras says:

    is this getting added or what?

  5. Anonymous says:

    This is exactly what we need. Customers buy a subscription committing them to 3 months, we take the money upfront but want to ship three times on the first of each month. Then when it renews this begins again.

  6. clemens says:

    EXACTLY!!! How has this not been added yet??? This thread is from 2013. Insane. Almost all Subscription companies would use this

  7. Anonymous says:

    This would be amazing! Trying to realise a discount on a yearly subscription with an upfront payment but monthly shipping… this one feature would simplify things so much!

  8. Adam Trickey says:

    We too could use this feature.

    For customers who pay annually for a monthly subscription product, it would be ideal if a monthly order could be auto-generated with a special status such as ‘prepaid’.

    Right now the orders are sent to ShipStation for fulfillment, but there’s not a means of generating the monthly shipping labels for those customer who pay annually.

  9. Adam Trickey says:

    We too could use this feature.

    For customers who pay annually for a monthly subscription product, it would be ideal if a monthly order could be auto-generated with a special status such as ‘prepaid’.

    Right now the orders are sent to ShipStation for fulfillment, but there’s not a means of generating the monthly shipping labels for those customer who pay annually.

  10. Anonymous says:

    We would love to have this option with the flexibility of picking your own shipment schedule from a one time upfront payment.

  11. Anonymous says:

    We not only need this option but also the ability to bill on a fixed day of the week and “ship” on a separate fixed day of the week. (We are a meal subscription program and have folks order a week in advance for deliveries the following week)

  12. Anonymous says:

    Yes, we need this option.

  13. Arnaud says:

    That would be fine as an option. If it could also work during the trial period it would be great. The billing and delivery options should be separated and the deliveries for a given period to be exported.

  14. Anonymous says:

    We need this option

  15. Tony says:

    Someone mentioned that they are temporarily renewing subscriptions at zero? How is this done? Do you just renew the subscription with the same official renewal date? For now I use spreadsheets and upload the customer orders to shipping software but that is a huge pain and would love easier ideas until the developers bring this feature.

  16. Anonymous says:

    Yes, we need this option.

  17. DJ Porter says:

    I need this bad. I operate a weekly home service and bill my customers monthly. I need to have a weekly service order generated for all active subscribers.

  18. JB says:

    Yes please, trying to manage 3500 subscribers without this is a pain.

  19. Christopher-James Sheppard says:

    Yes yes yes yes yes +10000000000 please please please, Im currenty trying to use Flycarts pre-paid plugin but it really doesn’t work very well but its my only option.

  20. Anonymous says:

    yes please

  21. Jessica says:

    please make sure when you do implement you give an option for pending-cancelation to continue shipments until subscription expiration. A lot of customer will purchase a pre-paid subscription then cancel right away just so they only get the pre-paid amount and doe not renew. But still need to get their recurring shipments for what they paid for.

  22. Tatjana says:

    totally agree! We have that problem at the moment! We have to cheat by adding a sign up fee and then charging them a recurring fee from the second month onwards, but the problem is that you can’t charge for shipping fee at the sing up stage.
    Super annoying! Can’t wait for them to fix this problem!

  23. Morgan says:

    Came across a plugin called Schedule delivery for WooCommerce by Themehigh where user can plan the product delivery.

    Helpful for shop owners who have regular customers who can plan their purchase.

  24. Ramesh Elamathi says:

    Hi

    The problem can be solved better by separating the billing cycle from shipping cycle. Because most subscription businesses would charge annually, while shipping the products on a monthly basis.

    So we are working on a “Custom Delivery Schedule plugin for WooCommerce subscriptions”. The plugin can help you separate the billing & shipping cycles. So your subscription product price can be set to charge every year (or any other cycle), while the delivery can be monthly (or any other cycle). Even you can let the customer to choose a delivery cycle.

    The plugin is almost complete.

    If you have any feedback or feature suggestions, do let me know. We are planning to submit this to the WooCommerce extensions section soon.