The official subscriptions extension — works with your existing checkout, your existing payment gateway, and your existing customer data.
30-day money-back guarantee
Sell curated boxes on a recurring schedule with sign-up fees, free trials, and customer self-service.
Sell plugin licenses or SaaS tools on monthly or annual billing with automatic renewals and dunning.
Gate premium content behind a recurring subscription. Pairs with WooCommerce Memberships for full access control.
Bill retainers and maintenance plans automatically, without manual invoicing.
Works with Stripe, PayPal, Square, Braintree, Authorize.Net, WooPayments, and 20+ more. Automatic renewals require a gateway that supports recurring billing.
Bill weekly, monthly, yearly, or on any custom interval. Synchronize renewal dates across subscribers for predictable cash flow.
Offer free or paid trials before the first renewal. Charge a one-time sign-up fee on top of the recurring price.
Customers can view, pause, cancel, and update payment methods from My Account — without contacting you.
Failed renewals are retried on a configurable schedule. Reduce involuntary churn without manual intervention.
Subscribers can upgrade or downgrade mid-cycle. Charges and credits are prorated automatically.
Offer subscription plans as product variations with different prices, billing intervals, or trial lengths.
Customers can buy subscription and non-subscription products in the same order. No separate checkout flow required.
Pick any product in your catalog and make it recurring.
Set billing cycles, trials, and sign-up fees.
Publish to your catalog and start taking signups.
Renewals, upgrades, and cancellations run on autopilot.
Use built-in analytics to reduce churn and expand MRR.
Everything you need to sell and manage recurring revenue in WooCommerce.
Built and maintained by the same team behind WooCommerce. That integration depth matters when you're scaling.
| Feature | WooCommerce Subscriptions | Free alternatives | Paid alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automatic billing on schedule | Yes | Basic recurring only | Automatic, limited retry logic |
| Fixed monthly billing date | Yes | Not supported | Not supported |
| Switch plans with automatic adjustments | Yes | Not supported | Basic switching, no proration |
| Retry failed payments automatically | Yes | Not supported | Basic retry, flat schedule |
| Sign-up fees + recurring charges | Yes | Not supported | Not supported |
| Customer self-service portal | Yes | Cancel/pause only | Cancel/pause/resume only |
| 25+ payment gateways | Yes | PayPal & Stripe mainly | Moderate expansion beyond free |
| Suspend & resume subscriptions | Yes | Not supported | Basic pause/resume |
| Discounts for recurring payments | Yes | Not supported | Not supported |
| Flexible product options per subscription | Yes | Basic variable support | Limited variable options |
We compared leading subscription solutions across pricing, core features, and total cost of ownership. WooCommerce Subscriptions delivers what others charge extra for, included from day one.
WooCommerce Subscriptions is a plugin that adds recurring billing to any WooCommerce store. It handles the full subscription lifecycle — initial signup, automatic renewals, failed payment retries, plan changes, and cancellations — so you can sell products and services with predictable recurring revenue.
Over 25 payment gateways support automatic recurring payments, including Stripe, PayPal, Square, Braintree, Authorize.Net, and WooPayments. For gateways without automatic renewal support, subscribers receive a renewal notification and complete payment manually.
Yes. Customers can view, pause, cancel, and update the payment method for their subscriptions from the My Account page without contacting support.
WooCommerce Subscriptions automatically retries failed payments on a configurable schedule. The subscription moves to on-hold status during the retry window and the customer receives email notifications. Pair with AutomateWoo for advanced dunning email sequences.
Yes. You can set a free trial period on any subscription product. During the trial, no payment is collected. At the end of the trial, the first renewal payment is processed automatically.
Yes. Variable subscription products let each variation have different pricing, billing intervals, or trial lengths — for example, a monthly plan vs. an annual plan as two variations of the same product.
Yes. WooCommerce Subscriptions is fully compatible with High Performance Order Storage (HPOS / Custom Order Tables), which is the default database architecture for new WooCommerce installations.
Yes. Subscription switching lets customers move between plans mid-cycle. Charges and credits are prorated automatically based on time remaining in the current billing period.
Yes. WooCommerce Subscriptions and WooCommerce Memberships are designed to work together. Membership access can be tied to an active subscription — when the subscription lapses, access is automatically revoked.
Your subscription includes one year of updates and support from the WooCommerce team, available via the Help Desk. Access to new versions released during the license term is included.
Install, configure, and create your first subscription product.
Which gateways support automatic renewals and how to configure them.
Suspend, cancel, upgrade, and manually edit active subscriptions.
Hooks, REST API endpoints, and extending WooCommerce Subscriptions.
