WooCommerce Product Updates

This release keeps billing details on a gifted subscription with the person who paid for it, closes the gaps that let an early renewal charge a customer twice, and fixes a set of renewal and checkout issues that affected order totals and payment dates.

Gifted subscriptions stay billed to the purchaser. Before this release, a gift recipient paying a renewal could overwrite the purchaser's billing name, email, and address, and in some cases the purchaser's renewal invoices went to the recipient. Recipients can still update the shipping address on a gifted subscription, but they can no longer view or...

9.2.0 rebuilds the Subscriptions settings page and changes two defaults you should check after updating. It also fixes a set of billing problems that were leaving renewals uncharged or charged at the wrong amount.

Check two settings after you update. Settings are now a single column with clearer labels and inline help at WooCommerce > Settings > Subscriptions. Early renewal payments are now on by default on any store that never saved the "Allow early renewal payments" setting, which means customers on those stores can pay a renewal ahead of its due date; turn it off in Settings if you...

All Products for WooCommerce Subscriptions is now included in WooCommerce Subscriptions — no extra extension required. You can offer simple products, variable products, product bundles, and composite products on subscription, create multiple plans for a single product, and turn one-time purchases into recurring revenue.

No separate purchase, one less extension to manage. The All Products functionality is now part of WooCommerce Subscriptions at no additional cost. If you don't have the standalone extension installed, this feature turns on automatically once you update to 9.0. If you already run it, your settings stay exactly as they are — you can deactivate and uninstall...

This release adds one-click fixes to the Subscriptions Health Check tool, closes several gaps that let duplicate subscriptions slip through to orders, and resolves a cart error during subscription switching.

The Subscriptions Health Check tool now does more than flag problems — it fixes them. When the tool surfaces a flagged subscription, you can apply the recommended fix right from the results: switch it to automatic renewal, or process the renewal now. Before this, the tool told you what was wrong and left the fix to you to track down and resolve manually.

A few changes also make scans easier...

The Subscriptions Health Check tool gives merchants a clear view of subscriptions that may not be renewing as expected — so you can review them and take action from the subscription edit screen.

Find it at WooCommerce > Status > Subscriptions. It runs on a nightly schedule and can be triggered manually at any time. No automatic changes are made to your subscriptions.

The tool surfaces two categories:

Supports auto-renewal — subscriptions currently set to manual renewal where the customer has a saved payment token on a gateway that supports automatic billing. These are the ones most likely to warrant a closer look.

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WooCommerce Subscriptions 8.6.1 ships two fixes to renewal state handling for stores running HPOS.

WooCommerce Subscriptions now includes built-in support for downloadable products, and subscription editing restrictions for mandate-based payment methods have been corrected.

Gifting is now possible with WooCommerce Subscriptions, allowing your customers to purchase subscriptions as gifts for friends and family. This feature opens up a new customer acquisition channel by allowing your existing subscribers to introduce others to your products — making it easier to grow your recurring revenue through peer-to-peer distribution.