WooCommerce Subscriptions
| Developed by WooCommerceCapture Residual Revenue with Recurring Payments
Can you guarantee how much money your store is going to make this month? If you offered subscription-based products, you could do just that.
With WooCommerce Subscriptions, you can create and manage products with recurring payments — payments that will give you residual revenue you can track and count on.
WooCommerce Subscriptions allows you to introduce a variety of subscriptions for physical or virtual products and services. Create product-of-the-month clubs, weekly service subscriptions or even yearly software billing packages. Add sign-up fees, offer free trials, or set expiration periods.
A subscription-based model will allow you to capture more residual revenue — and all you have to do is ship the orders.
Why Use WooCommerce Subscriptions?
- Multiple billing schedules available to suit your store’s needs
- Integration with over 25 payment gateways for automatic recurring payments
- Supports manual renewal payments through any WooCommerce payment gateway, along with automatic email invoices and receipts
- Supports automatic rebilling on failed subscription payments, so you never lose revenue
- Give subscribers the ability to manage their own plan, including upgrading or downgrading, without needing to wait on you for help
- Built-in renewal notifications and automatic emails let you — and your customers — know when subscription payments have been processed, so there are never any surprises
- Detailed reports allow you to keep track of recurring revenue, number of active subscribers, and more
WooCommerce Subscriptions Features
Free Trials & Sign-Up Fees
Charge an initial amount to account for customer setup costs, or allow customers to try before they buy, by adding sign-up fees and free trials to any subscription product.
Subscription Management
Store owners get full-featured subscription management via the WooCommerce > Edit Subscription administration screen. You can suspend or cancel a subscription, change the trial expiration, add items, shipping, fees or taxes to the subscription or modify the recurring total for future payments.
Synchronized Payments
If you only want ship on certain days of the month, or align all customers to the same annual membership term, you can with WooCommerce Subscriptions’ renewal synchronization feature. You can even prorate the first payment of a synchronized subscription purchase.
Flexible Product Options
When creating a subscription product, you can make the product downloadable, virtual or physical, charge renewal payments weekly, monthly or annually, limit the product to one-per-customer and even charge shipping only on the initial order.
Subscription Coupons
Offer customers a discount on their monthly payments or just the sign-up fee. Subscriptions includes both recurring discount coupons and sign-up fee coupons.
Variable Subscriptions
Create variable subscription products and allow your customers to choose a subscription that suits their needs. You can even allow customers to choose their own billing schedule.
Subscriber Account Management
Your customers can also manage their own subscriptions. With the My Account > View Subscription page, subscribers can suspend or cancel a subscription, change the shipping address or payment method for future renewals and upgrade or downgrade their subscription.
Upgrades/Downgrades
Allow customers to upgrade, downgrade or cross-grade between different subscription products. With flexible proration options for the recurring amount, sign-up fee and length, you can also customize the costs of switching to a new subscription product to suit the needs of your store.
Multiple Subscriptions
Your customers can also purchase different subscription products in the same transaction and Subscriptions will group the products to reduce the payment gateway fees and logistical overhead for their future renewals.
Customer Emails
Automatically notify customers when a subscription renewal payment is processed, a subscription is cancelled or when a subscription has expired with the built-in subscription emails.
Capture More Residual Revenue
Whether your goal is to ship a surprise bundle of products to faithful customers every month or bill them for an in-person service provided by your small business, WooCommerce Subscriptions can take the stress out of capturing that all-important residual revenue.
You’ll be able to track just how many subscribers you have, when they’re being billed, and how much revenue you’re generating — meaning you’ll always know how much revenue your store can count on as you continue to grow.
How to Get Started
- Buy this extension 🙂
- Download, install, and activate the plugin in your WooCommerce store
- Set up your first subscription-based product or service and take it live
- Check out our detailed documentation to help you customize your subscription products, renewal options and more
- Sit back and enjoy earning more revenue!
Need any more reason to buy? Subscriptions is built by Prospress, a leading WooCommerce.com Extension developer, so you can trust you’re getting high quality code backed with first-class support.
C-M rated ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ –
What didn't you like about this product?
I've had this plugin for 15 months and still not put it live. Every now and again I come back to it and take the implementation a bit further and realise it is so limited I have to buy yet another add-on to make it usable. Necessary things it can’t do include (1) letting customers have the option to buy outright or have a subscription based on the same inventory. Pretty basic stuff, but you need to buy another plugin for that, (2) Pre payment emails to warn customers a payment is about to be taken, giving them the chance to cancel or add to it. It’s unthinkable to take payment without warning, so this is a serious omission, not just for physical goods stores. This is the one that has led me to put our subscriptions project on ice. You can buy other plugins to fill the gaps, but they all increase the cost. So this is NOT an out of the box solution. Setting up a subscriptions function is a big commitment that we have to keep going... unlike many plugins, there's no going back without annoying customers and probably losing their business. So I'm also concerned about risking that something with so many interdependencies goes wrong in a year's time.
How could it be improved?
Build in an integrated choice for customers between one-off and subscription purchases, where the inventory is shared. Pre-renewal emails.
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Ben Jenkins rated ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ –
What is great about this product?
5 stars without question. Honestly confused by the two bad reviews here.
How could it be improved?
I’ve been using the subscription plugin for about 4 years and have only good things to say about it. I noticed there were only 3 reviews here so I thought I’d take a moment to read them. I’m baffled by the 1 and 3 star review. I can’t vouch for the 5 star review because it wasn’t super detailed, but I’m glad it worked out for that person.
My experience with this plugin over the last 4 years has been nothing but good…not just with the plugin itself but with the people behind the plugin.
I actually started using it with a pirated version to start and did a few dumb things that screwed up my database. The people behind the plugin helped me get back up and running and I was happy to buy it at full price.
With all of the things that can go wrong with a website, it’s nice to be able to know that subscriptions isn’t something I have to worry about. I’ve had many clients use and love this plugin with no complaints.
The only issue I ever had with it was during the mini chaos that ensued after WooCommerce’s update to 3.0. There was a temporary problem that some people got (I was one of the unlucky) that resulted because I updated WooCommerce before updating the plugin. Normally that would be okay, but in this instance it was a problem. But they quickly fixed the issue and I was back up and running in no time.
Other than that very small glitch over the 4 years I’ve used it, it’s been perfect and is one of the reasons I love and rely on WooCommerce for myself and my clients.
These guys know their stuff and have been constantly improving and innovating on an already phenomenal product. I sometimes wish I could offer more complex subscriptions just to utilize all the options that are available.
I’m not understanding the issue stated by the guy that gave one star…hopefully he can get whatever his problem is resolved, but none of my clients that do subscriptions with shipping have had any issues with coupons. The 4 additional coupon options are very helpful.
As for the 3 star guy, I’d say drop PayPal. I know they are making some changes with BrainTree and I need to try that out, but PayPal has always had issues with subscriptions, changing subscriptions, etc. From what I read, the problem wasn’t with Subscriptions Plugin, but with PayPal and also him just not wanting to pay for a service that it sounds like he needs (i.e. Stamps.com).
When I started making sitesI tried doing everything for free or super cheap (i.e. my pirated version of Subscriptions), but I found out that it’s worth doing things the right way. The expense that is incurred by using the correct tools in the correct way is much less than the cost in both time and money of trying to do it without the right tools/etc.
Anyway, not even sure if anyone will read this, but I thought I’d try to provide some balance to the reviews here. I think most people that use this plugin just use it and love it and don’t have any reason to come back to the review page. If anything, it kind of says something that only 2 people came here to complain with how many successful installs there are out there that are helping people build their online businesses.
I’ve been impressed with the innovation and improvements that the people behind this have put into this plugin and I look forward to continued improvement as time goes on.
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ddmag rated ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ –
What didn't you like about this product?
This product worked great for about a year, then it stopped working. It's been a nightmare ever since to try to get someone to help fix this. The customer service is terrible. We got some responses via e-mail. . . we literally exchanged over 50 e-mails and couldn't get anyone to even remotely get close to fixing it. It has not worked for us for years now. We have just now tried to cancel all subscription related applications. Our bad for letting it go so long and letting them take our money using auto renewal. We have just gotten so used to processing subscriptions manually now, this fell off our radar. The app shows "Live" and active on the site but it has yet to work or process subscriptions correctly for years now. Extremely bad experience with this product and all "subscription" related products.
How could it be improved?
I have absolutely no idea and apparently neither does Woocommerce.
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Daniel Berdal rated ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ –
What do you think about this product?
I've been using woocommerce subscriptions for over three years, and several hundred thousand from my customers. I think it's easy to use, but get's a bit more complicated when trying to code custom integrations that trigger based off of specific subscriptions etc. However, if you're just trying to bill your customers on a recurring basis, it's excellent. Super easy integration with woocommerce memberships, and lots of other plugins. I've contact customer support on a number of occasions, and they've been very helpful.
How could it be improved?
Personally, I would like the admin controls for setting up and starting subscriptions to be a little bit more straightforward. If you have your customers payment information, it is possible to start a subscription for them, but takes too many steps.
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Alexander Tovey rated ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ –
What do you think about this product?
Its okay. Does a good job but you cant change the language to your own default on or even update the POT file.
How could it be improved?
A lanuage setting to change the default one.
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jokerx4 rated ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ –
What is great about this product?
The product has already saved our business. Allowing our customers to pay monthly instead of buying tickets has been amazing. It was extremely simple to setup and we haven't had any issues. We even migrated our website to a new location.
How could it be improved?
I can’t really think of anything.
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jingmingliao rated ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ –
What is great about this product?
I like the subscriptions extension. After initial installation, and set up, we ran into some issues, and contacted support. Sarah, Nick, Zach and Bernat from the support team did a great job investigating, they even took the time logging onto our own site to test, and eventually we realized that the issues were caused by our own plugin, and my lack of understanding of the product. I highly recommend this product, and the team behind it.
How could it be improved?
None found for at this moment.
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Jason Richter rated ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ –
What is great about this product?
Great Customer Service
How could it be improved?
I had an issue that turned out to be a problem with two separate caching plugins. The customer service reps at prospress were wonderful and helped me figure out the issues. I would certainly recommend this plugin especially now knowing how good they are with service.
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Joseph Duray rated ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ –
What is great about this product?
Excellent product and support
How could it be improved?
This extension has worked great for my store. Does everything we need it to.
Support: I ran into a problem when migrating the site and changing the database prefix (protip: don’t do that) and some subscriptions didn’t carry over correctly. Brent from Prospress was great and told me exactly what I needed to do to fix it. Recommend for anyone that handles WooCommerce subscriptions!
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AutoInstaLike rated ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ –
What didn't you like about this product?
Literally, the WORST customer service I ever experienced. They take FOREVER to answer, I bought this product a few weeks ago and still didn't solve any of the issues I had. You can't call them, only via email and you will get an answer every 24h if you are lucky...It's ridiculous!
How could it be improved?
Hire a better customer service company
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derher770 rated ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ –
What do you think about this product?
liket it and works well however customer support is not great
How could it be improved?
have better customer support instead of answering very infrequently and generic answers without looking into the real issue needed to hire other developers to figure out problems in the past
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Steve Holland rated ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ –
What do you think about this product?
We've been using this plugin on a membership site with over 1000+ subscriptions. It has been in active use for 2 years.
How could it be improved?
It would be good to provide a method to bulk increase the renewal price of existing subscriptions.
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healywebdesign rated ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ –
What is great about this product?
Excellent product and amazing support - fast response with informative information. Thank you for your help
How could it be improved?
nothing to improve – keep up the good work
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hainpublishinggmailcom rated ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ –
Excellent product, excellent support! I can not recommend this product enough.
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Joseph Meyer rated ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ –
What is great about this product?
Subscriptions is integrated nicely into WooCommerce to be very flexible for any need we have had. Additionally, their support has been priceless; this plug-in is easily worth it's cost!
How could it be improved?
I currently do not have any suggestions for this plug-in at this time.
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forerunnertv rated ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ –
What is great about this product?
Great
How could it be improved?
Made our life a whole lot easier as it bills automatically every month.
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firebubble rated ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ –
What is great about this product?
worked well for me
How could it be improved?
Does exactly what is says which is just what I needed. Very pleased.
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csitpartner1 rated ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ –
What do you think about this product?
A nice way to manage your subscriptions. Easy to understand.
How could it be improved?
2 things I’m missing: A proper german translation (some customer-facing text is still in english) and the possibility to configure subscription add-ons. For example a base subscription for a cloud service, with additional users as an add-on.
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