Freemius

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You built the product. Why give away 2-5% of every recurring payment to your plugin vendor?
Most WordPress subscription plugins charge per-transaction fees on top of Stripe’s processing costs. That means the more successful your business becomes, the more you pay them. On $10,000/month in recurring revenue, that is $200-500/month leaving your pocket — every single month, forever.
Stripe Subscription Manager charges 0% transaction fees. Zero. On every plan, including free.
You pay Stripe’s standard processing rate. That is it. No revenue sharing. No percentage skimmed off the top. Your growth is yours to keep.
<h4>Why SaaS Founders and Membership Operators Choose Stripe Subscription Manager</h4>
This is not another payment gateway wrapper. Stripe Subscription Manager is a direct, Stripe-native billing layer for WordPress that uses the same infrastructure powering Shopify, Notion, and Figma.
Stripe-native architecture — Connect via OAuth 2.0, accept payments through Stripe Checkout, let customers self-manage through Stripe Billing Portal, and automate tax compliance with Stripe Tax. No middleware. No abstraction layers. Just Stripe, working the way Stripe intended.
Usage-based (metered) billing — The first WordPress plugin to support Stripe Billing meters for consumption-based pricing. Perfect for AI/API platforms, cloud services, and any SaaS model where customers pay for what they use. Send meter events from your application and let Stripe handle the invoicing.
European payment methods on every plan — Accept iDEAL (Netherlands), Bancontact (Belgium), and SEPA Direct Debit (EU-wide) alongside cards. Apple Pay and Google Pay come standard through Stripe Checkout. No premium upsell required for basic payment method support.
<h4>How It Compares</h4>
<ul>
<li>vs. WooCommerce Subscriptions — No annual license. No transaction fees. Native Stripe Checkout instead of on-site card forms. Usage-based billing included.</li>
<li>vs. MemberPress / Restrict Content Pro — Stripe-native architecture vs. custom payment processing. Metered billing support. Built-in affiliate tracking. 0% transaction fees.</li>
<li>vs. building it yourself — Months of Stripe API integration, webhook handling, retry logic, and portal management — done in 5 minutes with a setup wizard.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Everything You Need to Run Subscriptions</h4>
<ul>
<li>Stripe OAuth 2.0 — Secure account connection. No copy-pasting API keys.</li>
<li>Stripe Checkout — PCI-compliant, conversion-optimized hosted payment page with Apple Pay and Google Pay.</li>
<li>Stripe Billing Portal — Customers update cards, switch plans, and view invoices without touching your support team.</li>
<li>Stripe Tax — Automatic sales tax, VAT, and GST calculation and collection. Stay compliant without spreadsheets.</li>
<li>Cancellation retention flow — When a customer tries to cancel, present a targeted save offer. Reduce churn before it happens.</li>
<li>Analytics dashboard — Track MRR, churn rate, revenue trends, and subscriber counts with built-in charts. No third-party analytics tool required.</li>
<li>Built-in affiliate system — Recruit partners to sell your subscriptions. Track referrals, calculate commissions, and manage payouts from your WordPress dashboard.</li>
<li>WooCommerce email integration — Six customizable email types managed through WooCommerce Settings for payment confirmations, renewal notices, trial reminders, and more.</li>
<li>Webhook retry queue — Missed a webhook? The built-in retry system ensures no payment event is lost.</li>
<li>14-day free trial — Every paid plan includes a 14-day trial so you can validate the full feature set before committing.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Who Is This For?</h4>
<ul>
<li>SaaS founders running their marketing site or customer portal on WordPress</li>
<li>Membership and online course operators who want Stripe-native billing</li>
<li>Newsletter and content creators selling paid subscriptions</li>
<li>API and AI service providers who need usage-based billing</li>
<li>Agencies building subscription-powered sites for clients</li>
<li>Any WordPress operator tired of paying transaction fees to their plugin vendor</li>
</ul>
<h4>Privacy and Security</h4>
Stripe Subscription Manager stores only the minimum data required for subscription management: Stripe customer IDs, subscription references, and OAuth tokens. All payment processing happens on Stripe’s PCI Level 1 certified infrastructure. No card numbers ever touch your server.
OAuth tokens are removed when you disconnect your Stripe account. Full privacy details are available in the plugin settings documentation.
<h3>External services</h3>
This plugin connects to <a href="https://stripe.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Stripe</a> to process subscription payments, manage billing, and handle customer data. Stripe is a third-party payment processing platform.
<h4>Stripe API</h4>
The plugin communicates with Stripe’s API servers (https://api.stripe.com) for:
<ul>
<li>Creating and managing subscriptions, customers, and checkout sessions</li>
<li>Processing recurring payments, refunds, and cancellations</li>
<li>Managing the Stripe Billing Portal for customer self-service</li>
<li>Handling webhook events for payment lifecycle notifications</li>
<li>Calculating tax via Stripe Tax (when enabled)</li>
</ul>
Data sent to Stripe includes: customer email addresses, subscription plan selections, payment method tokens (handled by Stripe Checkout — no card data touches your server), billing addresses (when required for tax), and usage meter events (for metered billing plans). This data is sent whenever a customer initiates checkout, manages their subscription, or when webhook events are received.
<ul>
<li>Stripe Terms of Service: https://stripe.com/legal</li>
<li>Stripe Privacy Policy: https://stripe.com/privacy</li>
</ul>
<h4>Stripe.js</h4>
The plugin loads Stripe’s JavaScript library (https://js.stripe.com/v3/) on checkout pages to redirect customers to Stripe’s hosted payment page (Stripe Checkout). No payment data is collected on your site.
<ul>
<li>Stripe.js Terms: https://stripe.com/legal</li>
<li>Stripe Privacy Policy: https://stripe.com/privacy</li>
</ul>
<h4>Freemius SDK</h4>
This plugin uses the Freemius SDK for license management, update delivery, and opt-in anonymous usage tracking. When activated, the SDK may communicate with Freemius servers (https://api.freemius.com) to verify licenses and check for updates. Users are prompted for consent before any usage data is shared.
<ul>
<li>Freemius Terms of Service: https://freemius.com/terms/</li>
<li>Freemius Privacy Policy: https://freemius.com/privacy/</li>
</ul>

Subscription Manager for Stripe

The only WordPress subscription plugin with 0% transaction fees, usage-based billing, and full Stripe-native integration. Built for SaaS founders and  …

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🔄 Subscriptions Restorer for Stripe and Restrict Content Pro is a must-have recovery tool for membership site owners who use Restrict Content Pro with Stripe payments.
Accidentally cancelled Stripe subscriptions can mean lost revenue and frustrated members. This plugin makes it easy to restore those subscriptions in bulk — directly from your WordPress dashboard.
<h4>🎯 Who Is This Plugin For?</h4>
This plugin is built for you if:
<ol>
<li>You use Restrict Content Pro to manage memberships and subscriptions.</li>
<li>Your members pay via Stripe recurring billing.</li>
<li>You still have active member records in Restrict Content Pro, but their Stripe subscriptions were cancelled.</li>
</ol>
<h4>💡 10+ Real-World Use Cases</h4>
<ol>
<li>🌐 Staging Site Accident — A staging/dev copy of your site still had live Stripe webhooks connected, and changes on staging cancelled real subscriptions.</li>
<li>🗑️ Accidental Dashboard Cancellation — Someone on your team manually cancelled subscriptions from the Stripe dashboard by mistake.</li>
<li>🔌 Plugin Conflict — A plugin update or conflict triggered unexpected subscription cancellations in Stripe.</li>
<li>⚙️ Migration Gone Wrong — During a site migration or server move, Stripe webhooks fired incorrectly and cancelled active subscriptions.</li>
<li>🧪 Testing on Live Data — Testing payment flows on a live site accidentally cancelled real subscriber billing.</li>
<li>🔁 Webhook Misconfiguration — Incorrectly configured Stripe webhooks caused cancellation events to fire on the wrong environment.</li>
<li>📦 Backup Restoration Side Effect — Restoring a database backup re-triggered old cancellation events through Stripe.</li>
<li>👥 Bulk Action Mistake — An admin accidentally bulk-cancelled memberships, and the cancellation propagated to Stripe.</li>
<li>🔄 Subscription Sync Issue — A sync mismatch between RCP and Stripe left subscriptions cancelled on the Stripe side but active in RCP.</li>
<li>🛡️ Fraud Prevention Overreaction — Automated fraud tools or Stripe Radar flagged and cancelled legitimate subscriptions.</li>
<li>📉 Revenue Recovery Audit — You noticed a revenue dip and found that multiple subscriptions were silently cancelled — now you need to restore them all at once.</li>
</ol>
<h4>✅ Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>🔄 One-Click Restoration — Restore cancelled Stripe subscriptions by creating new ones synced with your existing RCP membership records.</li>
<li>📋 Bulk Restore — Select multiple subscriptions and restore them all at once. No more fixing them one by one.</li>
<li>🔗 Seamless Integration — Works directly with the Stripe API and Restrict Content Pro’s database for accurate syncing.</li>
<li>📅 Smart Date Handling — Restored subscriptions start immediately with a trial period that ends on the original expiration date, so members aren’t charged twice.</li>
<li>✔️ Restoration Tracking — Restored subscriptions are clearly marked with a green checkmark in the admin table.</li>
</ul>
<h4>🛠️ How to Use This Plugin</h4>
Step 1: Install & Activate 
Upload the plugin via the WordPress plugin installer or install it from the WordPress plugin repository. Activate it from the Plugins screen.
Step 2: Enter Your Stripe API Key 
Go to Settings → RC Restore Cancelled Stripe Subscriptions and paste your Stripe Secret API Key (starts with <code>sk_live_</code> or <code>sk_test_</code>). Click Save Changes.
<blockquote>
💡 You can find your Stripe API key at <a href="https://dashboard.stripe.com/apikeys" rel="nofollow ugc">Stripe Dashboard → Developers → API Keys</a>.
</blockquote>
Step 3: View Cancelled Subscriptions 
After saving your API key, the plugin will fetch and display all cancelled subscriptions from Stripe in a detailed table, including customer name, email, plan details, and cancellation date.
Step 4: Select & Restore 
Use the checkboxes to select the subscriptions you want to restore (or use “Select All”). Choose Restore from the Bulk Actions dropdown and click Apply. Confirm the action when prompted.
Step 5: Verify 
Restored subscriptions will show a ✔️ green checkmark in the Status column. The corresponding RCP memberships will be set back to active with auto-renew enabled.
<h4>🤝 Works Great With These Popular Plugins</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://restrictcontentpro.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Restrict Content Pro</a> — Required. The membership and subscription management plugin this tool is built for.</li>
<li><a href="https://woocommerce.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce</a> — If you run an e-commerce store alongside your membership site, both can share the same Stripe account.</li>
<li><a href="https://wpmailsmtp.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Mail SMTP</a> — Ensure your members receive email notifications when their subscriptions are restored.</li>
<li><a href="https://updraftplus.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">UpdraftPlus</a> — Backup your site before performing bulk restoration for peace of mind.</li>
<li><a href="https://wp-staging.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Staging</a> — Use a proper staging plugin that isolates webhooks, preventing the exact problem this plugin solves.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/checkout-plugins-stripe-woo/" rel="ugc">Stripe Payment Gateway for WooCommerce</a> — If you also use Stripe with WooCommerce, this ensures your Stripe account is properly managed.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-switching/" rel="ugc">User Switching</a> — Quickly switch to a member’s account to verify their subscription was restored correctly.</li>
</ul>
<h4>🔒 Security</h4>
<ul>
<li>Nonce verification on all AJAX requests</li>
<li>Input sanitization and output escaping throughout</li>
<li>Stripe API key is stored securely in the WordPress options table</li>
<li>Admin-only access (requires <code>manage_options</code> capability)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage of Third-Party Services</h3>
This plugin relies on the Stripe API to manage and restore canceled subscriptions. The following endpoints are used:
<ul>
<li><code>https://api.stripe.com/v1/customers</code></li>
<li><code>https://api.stripe.com/v1/subscriptions</code></li>
</ul>
Your data will be sent to these Stripe endpoints under the following circumstances:
<ol>
<li>To fetch information about canceled subscriptions.</li>
<li>To fetch customer details associated with the subscriptions.</li>
<li>To create new subscriptions based on previously canceled subscriptions.</li>
</ol>
Please ensure you have reviewed Stripe’s terms of use and privacy policies:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://stripe.com/legal" rel="nofollow ugc">Stripe Terms of Use</a></li>
<li><a href="https://stripe.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Stripe Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>

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