Sell WooCommerce subscriptions, recurring payments, installment plans, and renewals with built-in retention tools.

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FlexiLay Gateway for WooCommerce

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Sublium

<p><a href="https://sublium.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Sublium Subscriptions</a> is a WooCommerce subscriptions plugin that helps you sell recurring products, memberships, service plans, and installment payments. Create subscription products, automate renewals, collect recurring payments, reduce churn, and let customers manage their own plans.</p>
<p>Built for store owners, marketers, and growing brands, Sublium Subscriptions combines subscription billing, failed payment recovery, cancellation prevention, customer self-service, and subscription analytics in one WooCommerce solution.</p>
<p>Instead of stitching together multiple tools, use one subscription system to launch, manage, and grow recurring revenue in WooCommerce.</p>
<p>Sublium Subscriptions includes built-in retention tools that help you keep subscribers longer with pause and skip options, smart cancellation flows, automated payment recovery, and customer self-service.</p>
<h4>Sublium Subscriptions Pro</h4>
<p>Sublium Subscriptions Pro adds zero additional transaction fees, advanced retention workflows, a built-in analytics dashboard, smart cancellation flows, a one-click card updater, upgrade groups, and a visual email builder. <a href="https://sublium.com/pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc">Get Sublium Subscriptions Pro now</a>.</p>
<p>Watch this video to learn why WooCommerce store owners, marketers, developers, and subscription businesses choose Sublium Subscriptions:</p>
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<h3>What You Can Do With Sublium Subscriptions</h3>
<ul>
<li>Create WooCommerce subscription products in minutes</li>
<li>Offer recurring payments and automatic renewals</li>
<li>Launch installment payment plans for high-ticket products</li>
<li>Sell physical products, digital memberships, and service subscriptions</li>
<li>Let customers pause, skip, reschedule, or restart plans</li>
<li>Recover failed payments automatically</li>
<li>Track subscriber growth, MRR, ARR, churn, and renewal performance</li>
</ul>
<h3>WooCommerce Subscription Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Create simple and variable subscription products</li>
<li>Support recurring billing and automatic renewals</li>
<li>Offer free trials and one-time signup fees</li>
<li>Manage fixed-term and evergreen subscriptions</li>
<li>Handle upgrades, downgrades, and proration</li>
<li>Provide customer self-service inside WooCommerce</li>
<li>Recover failed renewals automatically</li>
<li>Track subscription analytics and subscriber growth</li>
<li>Create installment plans and scheduled payment products</li>
</ul>
<h3>Why Store Owners Choose Sublium for WooCommerce Subscriptions</h3>
<p>Most WooCommerce subscription plugins stop at billing. Sublium Subscriptions goes further with built-in retention, failed payment recovery, customer self-service, and revenue tracking.</p>
<h4>5-Minute Setup Wizard</h4>
<p>Launch your first subscription product in minutes with a guided setup wizard. No complicated configuration required.</p>
<h4>Easy Subscription Management</h4>
<p>If you can create a standard WooCommerce product, you can create and manage subscriptions with Sublium Subscriptions.</p>
<h4>Flexible Subscription Models</h4>
<p>Support physical subscribe-and-save products, digital memberships, service retainers, and installment payment plans.</p>
<h4>Failed Payment Recovery for Recurring Orders</h4>
<p>Automatically retry failed payments with intelligent scheduling. Send card expiry reminders and let customers update cards with one secure link.</p>
<h4>Churn Reduction Tools</h4>
<p>Let subscribers pause, skip, reschedule, or restart plans. Use cancellation flows, surveys, and retention offers to reduce churn.</p>
<h4>Customer Self-Service Portal</h4>
<p>Reduce support tickets by letting subscribers manage their own subscriptions, shipping details, renewals, and payment methods.</p>
<h4>Subscription Analytics Dashboard</h4>
<p>Track MRR, ARR, churn, subscriber trends, cohort performance, renewal performance, and revenue forecasts from one dashboard.</p>
<h4>Upgrade and Downgrade Offers</h4>
<p>Create plan hierarchies, offer upgrade incentives, handle proration automatically, and trigger upgrade prompts at the right time.</p>
<h4>One-Click Card Updater</h4>
<p>Recover revenue lost to expired cards with secure one-time update links. Customers can update payment methods without logging in.</p>
<h4>Visual Email Builder</h4>
<p>Design professional subscription emails with a drag-and-drop builder and dynamic merge tags.</p>
<h3>Subscription Features for Physical Products, Memberships, and Installments</h3>
<h4>Subscribe and Save for Physical Products</h4>
<p>Offer automatic deliveries for consumables, flexible delivery cycles, subscriber discounts, and renewal-based forecasting.</p>
<h4>Recurring Digital Subscriptions</h4>
<p>Automate billing for memberships, courses, and services. Restrict premium access behind recurring payments and revoke access automatically when payments fail.</p>
<h4>Installment Payment Plans</h4>
<p>Split high-ticket purchases into weekly or monthly payments. Collect upfront down payments, allow early payoff, and reduce cart abandonment.</p>
<h4>Flexible Billing Options</h4>
<p>Set custom billing intervals such as daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly, and define fixed-term or evergreen subscriptions.</p>
<h4>Free Trials</h4>
<p>Offer free trial periods with control over trial length, billing start date, and post-trial renewals.</p>
<h4>One-Time Signup Fees</h4>
<p>Charge a one-time setup or onboarding fee in addition to recurring subscription payments.</p>
<h4>Advanced Subscription Coupons</h4>
<p>Create recurring percentage or fixed discounts, usage limits, expiry dates, and promotion-based subscription offers.</p>
<h4>Payment Gateway Support</h4>
<p>Accept payments via Stripe for automatic renewals, Square, PayPal, major credit and debit cards, Apple Pay, and Google Pay with secure tokenization.</p>
<h4>Automated Email Notifications</h4>
<p>Send welcome emails, renewal receipts, failed renewal alerts, cancellation confirmations, installment notifications, and admin alerts for key events.</p>
<h4>Smart Cancellation Flows</h4>
<p>Present benefit reminders before cancellation, collect feedback, show retention offers, and display final win-back options.</p>
<h4>Activity Logs</h4>
<p>Track subscription events, renewal processing, event triggers, timestamps, filtering, and CSV exports for audits and troubleshooting.</p>
<h4>Lightweight Performance</h4>
<p>Sublium Subscriptions is built to stay efficient for WooCommerce stores while handling recurring billing workflows.</p>
<h4>Auto-Calculated Proration</h4>
<p>Automatically calculate fair billing adjustments when customers upgrade or downgrade mid-cycle.</p>
<h4>Unlimited Subscription Growth</h4>
<p>Create unlimited subscriptions, accept unlimited subscribers, and scale recurring revenue without artificial limits.</p>
<h3>Ideal Use Cases for Sublium Subscriptions</h3>
<p>Sublium Subscriptions works well for stores and businesses selling:</p>
<ul>
<li>Subscribe and save products</li>
<li>Monthly product boxes</li>
<li>Digital memberships</li>
<li>Online courses with recurring billing</li>
<li>Coaching and service retainers</li>
<li>Refill and replenishment products</li>
<li>Installment plans for expensive products</li>
<li>Ongoing maintenance or support plans</li>
<li>Recurring wellness or lifestyle products</li>
</ul>
<h3>Switching to Sublium Subscriptions</h3>
<p>Sublium Subscriptions is built for WooCommerce store owners who want a simpler subscription setup with recurring billing, retention tools, failed payment recovery, and analytics in one place.</p>
<p>It is a strong fit for businesses that want:</p>
<ul>
<li>Fewer moving parts in their subscription stack</li>
<li>Better customer self-service</li>
<li>Stronger renewal recovery</li>
<li>Better churn reduction workflows</li>
<li>Installment payment support</li>
<li>Clear recurring revenue reporting</li>
</ul>
<h3>Integrations</h3>
<ul>
<li><em>FunnelKit Funnel Builder:</em> Sell subscriptions through high-converting checkout pages and sales funnels, and offer recurring products as one-click upsells or order bumps.</li>
<li><em>FunnelKit Automations:</em> Run marketing workflows based on subscription data, automatically tag subscribers, trigger welcome sequences, and launch cart recovery campaigns.</li>
<li><em>LearnDash:</em> Link subscriptions to LMS content, auto-enroll students, and revoke access when payments fail.</li>
<li><em>TutorLMS:</em> Connect course access to recurring billing.</li>
<li><em>MemberPress:</em> Use Sublium Subscriptions for billing while MemberPress manages content protection.</li>
<li><em>WooCommerce Memberships:</em> Automatically grant membership status when a subscription is purchased.</li>
<li><em>AffiliateWP:</em> Reward affiliates for renewals and automatically track recurring commissions.</li>
<li><em>WPML:</em> Fully compatible with WPML for multilingual WooCommerce subscription stores.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Sublium Subscriptions Lite vs Pro Comparison</h3>
<h4>What You Get With Sublium Subscriptions Lite</h4>
<p>With Sublium Subscriptions Lite, you can create WooCommerce subscriptions, recurring payments, installment plans, variable subscription products, free trials, signup fees, and automated renewal flows.</p>
<h4>What You Get With Sublium Subscriptions Pro</h4>
<p>With Sublium Subscriptions Pro, you unlock advanced retention workflows, cancellation prevention, one-click card updates, deeper analytics, advanced email tools, and zero additional transaction fees.</p>
<h4>Included in Sublium Subscriptions Lite (Free Forever)</h4>
<h4>Core Subscription Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Unlimited subscriptions and subscribers</li>
<li>Subscribe and save for physical products</li>
<li>Recurring digital memberships and services</li>
<li>Installment payment plans</li>
<li>Variable subscription products</li>
<li>Free trial periods</li>
<li>One-time signup fees</li>
<li>Flexible billing intervals</li>
<li>Fixed-term and evergreen subscriptions</li>
</ul>
<h4>Payment Recovery</h4>
<ul>
<li>Automatic payment retry</li>
<li>Customizable retry intervals</li>
<li>Prorated billing for upgrades and downgrades</li>
</ul>
<h4>Basic Customer Self-Service Portal</h4>
<ul>
<li>Renew subscriptions early</li>
<li>Trigger instant subscribe-and-save renewals</li>
<li>Pay off remaining installments</li>
<li>View subscription history</li>
<li>View addresses and payment methods</li>
<li>See upcoming payment dates and amounts</li>
</ul>
<h4>Email Notifications</h4>
<ul>
<li>Subscription created emails</li>
<li>Renewal receipt emails</li>
<li>Failed renewal alert emails</li>
<li>Cancellation confirmation emails</li>
<li>Installment notification emails</li>
<li>Admin alert emails</li>
<li>Basic email customization via rich text editor</li>
</ul>
<h4>Payment Gateways</h4>
<ul>
<li>Stripe with automatic recurring payments</li>
<li>Square</li>
<li>Major credit and debit cards</li>
<li>Apple Pay and Google Pay</li>
<li>Secure tokenization</li>
</ul>
<h4>Subscription Management</h4>
<ul>
<li>Unified subscription dashboard</li>
<li>Real-time status tracking</li>
<li>Upcoming payment visibility</li>
<li>Quick customer search</li>
<li>Pause, cancel, or reschedule subscriptions</li>
<li>Full activity timeline</li>
</ul>
<h4>Customer Value Tracking</h4>
<ul>
<li>Centralized subscriber data</li>
<li>VIP customer identification by revenue</li>
<li>Active vs inactive subscriber tracking</li>
<li>Renewal success monitoring</li>
<li>Active subscription visibility per customer</li>
<li>Cash flow forecasting using upcoming payments</li>
</ul>
<h4>Integrations</h4>
<ul>
<li>FunnelKit Funnel Builder</li>
<li>FunnelKit Automations</li>
<li>LearnDash</li>
<li>TutorLMS</li>
<li>MemberPress</li>
<li>WooCommerce Memberships</li>
<li>AffiliateWP</li>
</ul>
<h4>Security and Compliance</h4>
<ul>
<li>PCI-compliant payment processing</li>
<li>GDPR best practices</li>
<li>Data export and deletion support</li>
</ul>
<p><em>Note:</em> Sublium Subscriptions Lite uses pay-as-you-go pricing that includes a 2.9% transaction fee on revenue, plus standard payment gateway fees.</p>
<p><a href="https://sublium.com/pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc">Upgrade to Sublium Subscriptions Pro to remove additional costs</a>.</p>
<h4>Unique Features of Sublium Subscriptions Pro</h4>
<h4>Advanced Retention Tools</h4>
<ul>
<li>Smart cancellation flows with surveys</li>
<li>Automated win-back offers</li>
<li>One-click secure card updater</li>
<li>Enhanced self-service portal with pause, skip, and reschedule</li>
<li>Retention offer triggers</li>
<li>Proactive card expiry alerts</li>
</ul>
<h4>Visual Email Builder</h4>
<ul>
<li>Drag-and-drop email designer</li>
<li>Merge tags for personalization</li>
<li>Mobile-optimized templates</li>
<li>Advanced email triggers</li>
<li>Upgrade confirmation emails</li>
<li>Branding controls</li>
</ul>
<h4>Built-In Analytics Dashboard</h4>
<ul>
<li>MRR tracking</li>
<li>ARR tracking</li>
<li>Churn monitoring</li>
<li>Subscriber growth analysis</li>
<li>Cohort analysis</li>
<li>Revenue forecasting</li>
<li>Cancellation flow effectiveness</li>
<li>Upgrade group performance</li>
<li>CSV export</li>
<li>New vs renewal revenue comparison</li>
<li>Visual graphs and charts</li>
<li>Date-range filtering</li>
</ul>
<h4>Upgrade Groups</h4>
<ul>
<li>Tier hierarchies</li>
<li>Upgrade incentives</li>
<li>Automatic proration handling</li>
<li>Advanced display conditions</li>
<li>Intelligent upgrade prompts</li>
<li>Upgrade performance tracking</li>
<li>CSV export</li>
</ul>
<h4>Zero Additional Transaction Fees</h4>
<ul>
<li>Eliminate the 2.9% Sublium Subscriptions Lite fee</li>
<li>Keep more subscription revenue</li>
<li>Full PayPal support for recurring payments</li>
</ul>
<h4>Advanced Activity Logs</h4>
<ul>
<li>Track subscription events</li>
<li>Monitor renewal processing</li>
<li>Identify triggers such as customer, admin, or system actions</li>
<li>Review timestamps and detailed logs</li>
<li>Filter by subscription, customer, or event</li>
<li>Export logs for external auditing</li>
</ul>
<h4>Enhanced Payment Recovery</h4>
<ul>
<li>Failed payment email alerts</li>
<li>Card expiry warning emails</li>
<li>Secure card update links</li>
<li>Custom card updater page with shortcode support</li>
<li>Branded card update experience</li>
<li>Last retry urgency notifications</li>
<li>Renewal reminder emails</li>
</ul>
<h4>Priority Support</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fast response times</li>
<li>Direct access to senior support engineers</li>
<li>Screenshare troubleshooting sessions</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://sublium.com/pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc">View all premium features and pricing</a>.</p>
<h3>Who Should Use Sublium Subscriptions for Recurring Payments</h3>
<p>Sublium Subscriptions is a strong fit for:</p>
<ul>
<li>Health and wellness brands</li>
<li>Food and beverage businesses</li>
<li>Subscription box businesses</li>
<li>Course creators</li>
<li>Coaches and trainers</li>
<li>Membership communities</li>
<li>Digital agencies</li>
<li>High-ticket retailers</li>
<li>Software companies</li>
<li>Non-profits</li>
<li>Any WooCommerce business looking to turn one-time buyers into recurring customers</li>
</ul>
<h3>Why the Sublium Brand</h3>
<p>Sublium is the brand created by the team behind <a href="https://funnelkit.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">FunnelKit</a>, trusted by 40,000+ WooCommerce businesses.</p>
<p>As a former agency building custom WooCommerce and WordPress solutions, we saw how fragmented subscription management had become. Store owners were juggling multiple plugins, facing conflicts, incurring high costs, and delivering poor customer experiences just to run recurring billing.</p>
<p>We built Sublium Subscriptions to combine subscriptions, recurring billing, retention, and analytics in one WooCommerce solution without unnecessary complexity.</p>
<p>Ready to grow recurring revenue?</p>
<ul>
<li><em>Download Sublium Subscriptions Lite:</em> Launch your first subscription quickly</li>
<li><em>Upgrade to Sublium Subscriptions Pro:</em> Unlock zero additional transaction fees and advanced subscription features</li>
</ul>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>For support, feature requests, or bug reports, please visit:</p>
<p>https://sublium.com/support</p>
<h3>Development</h3>
<p>Sublium Subscriptions is built with modern development practices:</p>
<ul>
<li>Object-oriented PHP architecture</li>
<li>React-based admin interface</li>
<li>WordPress coding standards compliance</li>
<li>REST API design</li>
<li>Comprehensive error handling and logging</li>
</ul>
<p>Source code:<br />
https://github.com/xlplugins/sublium-subscriptions</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>Developed by FunnelKit<br />
Website: https://funnelkit.com</p>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>Sublium Subscriptions for WooCommerce is licensed under the GPLv3 or later.</p>
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
<p>Sublium Subscriptions collects subscription and order data to provide subscription management functionality. No personal data is transmitted to third-party servers except through configured payment gateways for transaction processing.</p>


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