Want to offer exclusive, automatic and targeted coupon discounts for your customers? That’s where <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/group-coupons/">WooCommerce Group Coupons</a> will help. This extension for WooCommerce uses the free <a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/groups/">Groups</a> membership plugin and WordPress <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities">roles</a> to control the validity of coupons.
<h2>Features</h2>
<h3><img class="wp-image-3154875 alignleft" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/apply-to-groups.png" alt="Automatically apply Coupons to Group Members" width="128" height="128" />Apply Coupons Automatically</h3>
New coupon features add the possibility to apply coupons automatically for group members. This allows to have discounts applied for certain customer groups.
It is very convenient to have discounts applied automatically for certain user groups. This covers any cases ranging from applying a promotional discount automatically to any registered user, to granting automatic discounts to specific user groups like distributors, volume clients, etc. It can also be combined with another features provided by this extension to assure that coupons can only be used by certain groups.
 
<h3><img class="wp-image-3154867 alignleft" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/restrict-to-groups.png" alt="Restrict Coupons to Group Members" width="128" height="128" />Restrict Coupons by Group</h3>
This new feature provided by the extension allows to restrict coupons to be used only by group members. This adds the possibility to control who is allowed to use coupons by their group membership.
Coupons can be restricted to one or more groups and this feature can be combined with the automatic application of coupons per group.
 
<h3><img class="alignleft wp-image-3154878" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/exclude-groups.png" alt="Exclude Groups from using Coupons" width="128" height="128" />Exclude Members</h3>
Another useful feature provided by this extension is the option to exclude group members from using certain coupons. This allows to effectively exclude specific groups from using a coupon.
With this feature, you can for example run promotions for new customers and exclude existing customers. You can also allow some more privileged groups to have access to more discounts than others.
 
<h3><img class="alignleft wp-image-3154872" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/restrict-to-roles.png" alt="Restrict Coupons to WordPress Roles" width="128" height="128" />Restrict Coupons by Role</h3>
This new feature provided by the extension allows to restrict coupons to specific WordPress user roles. It adds the possibility to control who is allowed to use a coupon based on their role.
For example, you could grant a promotional discount to existing customers with the Customer role, while normal registered users would not be able to use it.
 
<h3><img class="alignleft wp-image-216802" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/WooCommerce_Group_Coupons_Showing_Discount.png" alt="Display pretty coupons" width="190" height="128" />Display Pretty Coupons</h3>
The extension also provides a new shortcode to show the coupons handled by the extension to your customers.
The coupons are displayed when valid based on the user account, coupon settings and the shortcode settings.
 
With the above features, the extension provides essential new features for coupons, including:
<ul>
<li>Exclusive discount coupons for group members with the free <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/groups/">Groups</a> membership plugin</li>
<li>Exclusive discount coupons for roles</li>
<li>Automatic discounts for group members</li>
<li>Discount target groups and roles at a glimpse</li>
<li>Pretty coupons via shortcodes</li>
<li>Helps to cover many promotional and marketing cases</li>
</ul>
<h2>Examples and Screenshots</h2>
<h3>A restricted Coupon for Registered Users</h3>
This example shows the settings used for a coupon that is limited to registered users and applied automatically for them. This means that the coupon will be applied automatically for any existing user account, without the need for the customer to input the coupon code at checkout explicitly. In this example, we also exclude any member of the Test group from using the coupon.
<img class="size-full wp-image-3154960 aligncenter" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/registered-group-coupon-excluding-test-group.png" alt="Registered group Coupon excluding Test group" width="980" height="650" />
<h3>An automatic Coupon for Distributors</h3>
In this example you can see the settings used for a coupon that is limited and applied automatically for two distributor groups.
<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3154966" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/distributor-groups.png" alt="Coupon settings for distributor groups" width="980" height="399" />
<h3>A Coupon limited to certain Groups</h3>
Here we have an example with settings for a coupon that is restricted to two groups, Level 1 and Level 2.
<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3154972" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/level-groups.png" alt="" width="980" height="259" />
<h3>A Coupon limited to Customers</h3>
This example shows the settings used for a coupon that can only be used by those who have the Customer role.
<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3154975" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/customer-role.png" alt="Settings for a coupon restricted to the Customer role" width="980" height="271" />
<h3>Extension Settings</h3>
The extension provides some very easy to control settings. Here you can also see that we have the free <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/groups/">Groups</a> membership plugin installed, which allows to use the coupon settings related to groups.
<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3154976" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/group-coupons-settings.png" alt="" width="980" height="660" />

Group Coupons

Automatically apply and restrict coupon validity for user groups. Offer exclusive, automatic and targeted discounts for your customers.

<h2>The most important features for you</h2>


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<li>Let customers subscribe to their entire cart at checkout, no subscription products needed</li>
<li>Every renewal is a real WooCommerce order with actual stock reduction</li>
<li>Full customer self-service: pause, resume, skip, cancel, change schedule, update addresses</li>
<li>Subscribe & Save discount to incentivize subscriptions</li>
<li>Easy to set up, easy to run: from zero to accepting subscription orders in under five minutes.</li>
<li>Works with both classic and WooCommerce Blocks checkout</li>
<li>Built-in payment gateway integrations for Mollie, Stripe, & WooPayments</li>
<li>Compatible with WPML, Polylang, Weglot & GTranslate</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Your products already work as subscriptions</h2>
Most subscription solutions require you to rebuild your catalog: creating separate subscription product types, defining fixed billing cycles per product, and maintaining parallel pricing. Order Subscriptions skips all of that.
Your existing simple and variable products work as subscriptions immediately. Customers decide at checkout whether to subscribe and pick their own renewal schedule: every 2 weeks, every month, every quarter, whatever fits their life. One checkbox, one frequency selector, done. No subscription product types to configure, no complex pricing tables to maintain, no catalog duplication. A single product serves both one-time buyers and subscribers.
This is how subscription commerce should work for stores that sell consumables, essentials, pet supplies, supplements, coffee, cosmetics, or anything customers need to reorder regularly.
<h2 class="text-text-100 mt-2 -mb-1 text-base font-bold">Real orders based on your stock</h2>
Every subscription renewal creates a genuine WooCommerce order, not a background transaction or a virtual renewal event. A complete order that flows through your existing fulfillment pipeline, properly reduces product inventory, applies current pricing, validates stock availability, and appears in your reports exactly like any other sale. In other words: your stock counts are always accurate.
<h2 class="text-text-100 mt-2 -mb-1 text-base font-bold">Payments that handle themselves</h2>
Automatic recurring payments work out of the box with the gateways WooCommerce stores actually use: Mollie (iDEAL, Bancontact, credit cards, SEPA Direct Debit, and more), Stripe, and WooPayments. Install the gateway plugin, enable order subscriptions, and recurring payments just work.
Need Cash on Delivery or Bank Transfer for your market? Those work too!
<h2>Customers stay in control</h2>
A dedicated section in My Account gives customers full control over their subscriptions, without contacting support and without waiting for an admin to make changes. They can pause when they’re overstocked, resume when they’re ready, skip a single renewal instead of cancelling, update their delivery address before the next shipment, adjust item quantities, or change their renewal frequency entirely.
Every action is confirmed with clear email notifications to both the customer and your team. Managing their subscription is effortless, not frustrating.
<h2 class="text-text-100 mt-2 -mb-1 text-base font-bold">Easy to set up, easy to run</h2>
One settings page with three tabs. Enable the feature, pick which frequencies to offer, choose your discount percentage, and you’re live. No product-by-product configuration, no migration, no separate subscription management system to learn. Your store can go from zero to accepting subscription orders in under five minutes.
<h2 class="text-text-100 mt-2 -mb-1 text-base font-bold">Built for the modern WooCommerce stack</h2>
Full support for WooCommerce Blocks checkout, High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS), and Action Scheduler. Even runs alongside WooCommerce Subscriptions without conflicts.
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<h2>All features</h2>
Find out what Order Subscriptions can do for you:
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<li>Order-level subscriptions at checkout: Customers enable subscriptions with a single checkbox at checkout and choose their renewal frequency. No subscription products to create or manage.</li>
<li>Flexible renewal frequencies: Support for days, weeks, months, and years with configurable minimum and maximum intervals per frequency type. Customers pick exactly the schedule that works for them.</li>
<li>Real stock management: Each recurring order is a full WooCommerce order that reduces product inventory, applies coupons, calculates shipping, and flows through your existing order pipeline.</li>
<li>Automatic recurring payments: Built-in integrations for Mollie, Stripe, and WooPayments. Payment methods are saved automatically during the first checkout, no customer action needed for renewals.</li>
<li>Failed payment retry system: Exponential backoff retries (12h, 24h, 48h) with automatic cancellation after 3 failures. Unrecoverable errors (deleted products, deleted users) trigger immediate cancellation without wasting retries.</li>
<li>Subscribe & Save discount: Configurable percentage discount (1-50%) applied at checkout and locked for the life of the subscription. Calculated on subtotal after coupons.</li>
<li>Customer self-service: Dedicated My Account section where customers can pause, resume, cancel, skip payments, change their renewal schedule, update item quantities, and edit billing/shipping addresses.</li>
<li>Full email notification system: 16 email templates covering every subscription lifecycle event: created, activated, paused, cancelled, auto-cancelled, changed, payment failed, payment skipped, and upcoming renewal reminders. Both admin and customer variants, with HTML and plain text templates.</li>
<li>Upcoming renewal reminders: Configurable email reminders sent X days before each renewal, so customers are never surprised by a charge.</li>
<li>Admin subscription management: Dedicated admin interface to view, edit, and manage all subscriptions. Change status, modify schedules, edit quantities, view related orders, and trigger manual renewals.</li>
<li>Subscription analytics dashboard: Visual overview of your subscription business with key metrics and trends.</li>
<li>CSV export: Export your subscription data for external reporting and analysis.</li>
<li>Product & user restrictions: Control exactly which products and users can use subscriptions. Include or exclude by product category, tag, brand, or individual product. Restrict by user role.</li>
<li>Product-level exclusion: Individually exclude specific products or variations from being purchased as subscriptions, via a simple checkbox on the product edit screen.</li>
<li>WooCommerce Blocks checkout support: Full integration with the block-based checkout, including Store API support for the subscription widget.</li>
<li>HPOS compatible: Fully compatible with High-Performance Order Storage. All order queries use dual-path logic for both HPOS and legacy storage.</li>
<li>Manual payment methods: Support for Cash on Delivery and Bank Transfer (BACS) subscriptions, with automatic invoicing and appropriate order status management.</li>
<li>Multilingual support: Compatible with WPML, Polylang, Weglot, and GTranslate. Per-language content settings for every customer-facing string. Background renewal processing respects the customer’s language context.</li>
<li>WooCommerce Subscriptions compatible: Runs alongside WooCommerce Subscriptions without conflicts. Menu labels and My Account entries adapt automatically.</li>
<li>Template overrides: Override checkout, My Account, and email templates via your theme for full design control.</li>
<li>Developer extensible: Comprehensive action and filter hooks for custom integrations, plus a gateway integration API for adding support for additional payment providers.</li>
<li>Detailed logging: Category-based logging via WooCommerce’s built-in log system, with gateway-specific log files for easy troubleshooting.</li>
<li>Translation ready: Includes translations for English, Dutch (NL, BE), French (FR, BE, LU), and German (DE, AT, CH, BE, LU) with formal variants.</li>
</ul>

Order Subscriptions

Let customers turn any WooCommerce order into a subscription during checkout. Flexible order-level subscriptions with automatic recurring payments, real stock management, and full customer self-service.

Group Coupons vs Order Subscriptions