WooCommerce Subscriptions

Plugin

By: Developed by Prospress

Added: December 2, 2020

Requirements:

Require customers to create an account: Disable Guest Checkout. Worksheet must be filled and submitted.

Details & Setup

Worksheet

(To download: please open the link in Firefox or copy the link and open in a new tab or window)

When to Use WooCommerce Subscriptions

Use WooCommerce Subscriptions to enable reoccurring product payments for customers or members.

Support and Requirements

Installation and Configuration

Installation:

Go to dashboard > GD Core and install/activate the plugin
Go to dashboard > WooCommerce > Settings > Subscriptions Customize buttons, roles, switching settings and checkout options here.
Go to WooCommerce > Products > Add Product
Select Simple Subscription or Variable Subscription as the product type and select settings specific to that product.

Configuration:

Creating a Subscription Product

Subscription Roles Settings (Integration with Members)

A user must create an account when signing up for a subscription, regardless of whether it’s required in WooCommerce. This is because subscriptions persist beyond a transaction and must be associated with a user account.

Subscriber Default Role – control the role assigned to customers when they create a subscription. By default, this is the WordPress built-in Subscriber role.
Inactive Subscriber Role – control the role assigned to subscribers when their subscription expires, is canceled or suspended (by you, the payment gateway or the customer). By default, this is the WooCommerce’s built-in Customer role.

To assign roles outside of WordPress and WooCommerce roles, use a membership extension such as Members. To get detailed fine-grained control over permissions given to a user on a per-product basis, use WooCommerce Memberships.

Subscriptions & Memberships (Integration with Woo Memberships)

While WooCommerce Memberships works very well on its own to help you sell set-length memberships, it’s very tightly integrated with WooCommerce Subscriptions to let you sell recurring memberships, as well as take advantage of some additional features that Subscriptions provides. Subscriptions allows your customers to upgrade, downgrade, or pause their own subscriptions, which will also affect memberships associated with the subscription. You can also offer free trials and recurring billing (instead of set-length, expiring memberships). Click here to read more

Subscription Emails

WooCommerce Subscriptions communicates with you and your store’s customers via a number of emails on specific subscription related events. Similar to WooCommerce emails, you can customize, enable/disable and configure recipients for subscription related emails. To customize subscription emails, go to: WooCommerce > Settings > Emails. The following emails are included with WooCommerce Subscriptions:

Description

Capture More 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 needs
Convenient automatic payments with over 25 payment gateways
Supports manual renewal payments through any 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

You can sell physical, virtual and downloadable products as a subscription. You can also offer services and memberships by setting a subscription to be virtual. This plugin can only work when guest checkout is disabled – all customers will be required to create accounts when purchasing a subscription product. Use WooCommerce Memberships along with Subscriptions to enable reoccurring payments for members.