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  • Subscription Caches

    WooCommerce Subscriptions has a persistent caching system to improve performance by avoiding slow database queries. This system speeds up many functions on the WooCommerce Subscriptions extension, including the amount of time it takes to process a renewal payment, load the My Account > Subscriptions page, and in some cases, load customer facing product and shop […]

  • Subscription Function & Property Reference

    This Subscription Function & Property Reference guide introduces some of the functions available for working with subscription data. It is not intended to provide tutorials on how to achieve certain tasks with a subscription, or as a comprehensive reference of all the subscription methods. If you have yet, you should read the Subscription Developer Overview […]

  • Subscriptions PayPal IPN Issues

    WooCommerce Subscriptions uses PayPal’s IPN (Instant Payment Notification) system to keep data in sync with PayPal. When PayPal processes a payment or other subscription event, like a cancellation, it sends an IPN to the site. Subscriptions processes this IPN and performs the appropriate actions concerning the related orders and subscriptions. For example, when a recurring […]

  • Subscriptions 2.0 Deprecated Hooks & Query Monitor Warning

    Subscriptions 2.0 changed the way data was stored and instantiated. Because of this, it needed to deprecate a large number of existing hooks. Some of these hooks had dynamic names, i.e. actions/filters where we don’t know what the hook actually is at run-time because it includes a payment gateway ID or another piece of dynamic data we […]

  • Subscriptions v2.0: Database Upgrade Process for v1.5 to v2.0

    To migrate stores using Subscriptions v1.5 to the new architecture of v2.0, Subscriptions uses a database upgrade script. This script will create a new ‘shop_subscription’ post for each subscription on the site and then migrate all meta data relating to a subscription from the original order used to purchase the subscription to the new ‘shop_subscription’ […]