<h2>The most important features for you</h2>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li>Let customers subscribe to their entire cart at checkout, <strong>no subscription products needed</strong></li>
<li>Every renewal is a real WooCommerce order with <strong>actual stock reduction</strong></li>
<li>Full <strong>customer self-service</strong>: pause, resume, skip, cancel, change schedule, update addresses</li>
<li><strong>Subscribe & Save discount</strong> to incentivize subscriptions</li>
<li>Easy to set up, easy to run: from zero to accepting subscription orders in <strong>under five minutes.</strong></li>
<li>Works with both <strong>classic</strong> and WooCommerce <strong>Blocks checkout</strong></li>
<li>Built-in payment gateway integrations for <strong>Mollie, Stripe, & WooPayments</strong></li>
<li>Compatible with <strong>WPML, Polylang, Weglot & GTranslate</strong></li>
</ul>
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<h2>Your products already work as subscriptions</h2>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">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.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><strong>Your existing simple and variable products work as subscriptions immediately</strong>. 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.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">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.</p>
<h2 class="text-text-100 mt-2 -mb-1 text-base font-bold">Real orders based on your stock</h2>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">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: <strong>your stock counts are always accurate</strong>.</p>
<h2 class="text-text-100 mt-2 -mb-1 text-base font-bold">Payments that handle themselves</h2>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Automatic recurring payments work out of the box with the gateways WooCommerce stores actually use: <strong>Mollie</strong> (iDEAL, Bancontact, credit cards, SEPA Direct Debit, and more), <strong>Stripe</strong>, and <strong>WooPayments</strong>. Install the gateway plugin, enable order subscriptions, and recurring payments just work.</p>
<p>Need <strong>Cash on Delivery</strong> or <strong>Bank Transfer</strong> for your market? Those work too!</p>
<h2>Customers stay in control</h2>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">A dedicated section in My Account gives <strong>customers full control over their subscriptions</strong>, 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.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Every action is confirmed with <strong>clear email notifications</strong> to both the customer and your team. Managing their subscription is effortless, not frustrating.</p>
<h2 class="text-text-100 mt-2 -mb-1 text-base font-bold">Easy to set up, easy to run</h2>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">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 <strong>under five minutes</strong>.</p>
<h2 class="text-text-100 mt-2 -mb-1 text-base font-bold">Built for the modern WooCommerce stack</h2>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Full support for WooCommerce Blocks checkout, High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS), and Action Scheduler. Even runs alongside WooCommerce Subscriptions without conflicts.</p>
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<h2>All features</h2>
<p>Find out what Order Subscriptions can do for you:</p>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li><strong>Order-level subscriptions at checkout: </strong>Customers enable subscriptions with a single checkbox at checkout and choose their renewal frequency. No subscription products to create or manage.</li>
<li><strong style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Flexible renewal frequencies: </strong><span style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">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.</span></li>
<li><strong style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Real stock management: </strong><span style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Each recurring order is a full WooCommerce order that reduces product inventory, applies coupons, calculates shipping, and flows through your existing order pipeline.</span></li>
<li><strong style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Automatic recurring payments: </strong><span style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Built-in integrations for Mollie, Stripe, and WooPayments. Payment methods are saved automatically during the first checkout, no customer action needed for renewals.</span></li>
<li><strong style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Failed payment retry system: </strong><span style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Exponential backoff retries (12h, 24h, 48h) with automatic cancellation after 3 failures. Unrecoverable errors (deleted products, deleted users) trigger immediate cancellation without wasting retries.</span></li>
<li><strong style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Subscribe & Save discount: </strong><span style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Configurable percentage discount (1-50%) applied at checkout and locked for the life of the subscription. Calculated on subtotal after coupons.</span></li>
<li><strong style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Customer self-service: </strong><span style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Dedicated My Account section where customers can pause, resume, cancel, skip payments, change their renewal schedule, update item quantities, and edit billing/shipping addresses.</span></li>
<li><strong style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Full email notification system: </strong><span style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">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.</span></li>
<li><strong style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Upcoming renewal reminders: </strong><span style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Configurable email reminders sent X days before each renewal, so customers are never surprised by a charge.</span></li>
<li><strong style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Admin subscription management: </strong><span style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Dedicated admin interface to view, edit, and manage all subscriptions. Change status, modify schedules, edit quantities, view related orders, and trigger manual renewals.</span></li>
<li><strong style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Subscription analytics dashboard: </strong><span style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Visual overview of your subscription business with key metrics and trends.</span></li>
<li><strong style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">CSV export: </strong><span style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Export your subscription data for external reporting and analysis.</span></li>
<li><strong style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Product & user restrictions: </strong><span style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Control exactly which products and users can use subscriptions. Include or exclude by product category, tag, brand, or individual product. Restrict by user role.</span></li>
<li><strong style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Product-level exclusion: </strong><span style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Individually exclude specific products or variations from being purchased as subscriptions, via a simple checkbox on the product edit screen.</span></li>
<li><strong style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">WooCommerce Blocks checkout support: </strong><span style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Full integration with the block-based checkout, including Store API support for the subscription widget.</span></li>
<li><strong style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">HPOS compatible: </strong><span style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Fully compatible with High-Performance Order Storage. All order queries use dual-path logic for both HPOS and legacy storage.</span></li>
<li><strong style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Manual payment methods: </strong><span style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Support for Cash on Delivery and Bank Transfer (BACS) subscriptions, with automatic invoicing and appropriate order status management.</span></li>
<li><strong style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Multilingual support: </strong><span style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">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.</span></li>
<li><strong style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">WooCommerce Subscriptions compatible: </strong><span style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Runs alongside WooCommerce Subscriptions without conflicts. Menu labels and My Account entries adapt automatically.</span></li>
<li><strong style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Template overrides: </strong><span style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Override checkout, My Account, and email templates via your theme for full design control.</span></li>
<li><strong style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Developer extensible: </strong><span style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Comprehensive action and filter hooks for custom integrations, plus a gateway integration API for adding support for additional payment providers.</span></li>
<li><strong style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Detailed logging: </strong><span style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Category-based logging via WooCommerce’s built-in log system, with gateway-specific log files for easy troubleshooting.</span></li>
<li><strong style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Translation ready: </strong><span style="letter-spacing: -0.011em">Includes translations for English, Dutch (NL, BE), French (FR, BE, LU), and German (DE, AT, CH, BE, LU) with formal variants.</span></li>
</ul>

Order Subscriptions

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

<div class="woo-sc-box info" style="margin-top: 0px">WooCommerce Subscriptions is compatible with <a href="https://woocommerce.com/checkout-blocks/">Cart and Checkout blocks</a> — a customizable, conversion-optimized checkout experience available in WooCommerce core.</div>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li>Multiple <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/subscriptions/creating-subscription-products/#payment-schedule">billing schedules</a> available to suit your store’s needs.</li>
<li>Integration with <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/subscriptions/payment-gateways/">over 25 payment gateways</a> for <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/subscriptions/renewal-process/#section-3">automatic recurring payments</a>.</li>
<li>Supports <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/subscriptions/renewal-process/">manual renewal payments</a> through any WooCommerce payment gateway, along with automatic email invoices and receipts.</li>
<li>Supports <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/subscriptions/failed-payment-retry/">automatic rebilling on failed subscription payments</a>, so you never lose revenue.</li>
<li>Give subscribers the ability to manage their own plan, including <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/subscriptions/switching-guide/">upgrading or downgrading</a>, without needing to wait on you for help.</li>
<li>Built-in <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/subscriptions/subscription-emails/">renewal notifications</a> and automatic emails let you — and your customers — know when subscription payments have been processed, so there are never any surprises.</li>
<li><a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/subscriptions/reports/">Detailed reports</a> allow you to keep track of recurring revenue, number of active subscribers, and more.</li>
<li><strong>New!</strong> Allow shoppers to <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/subscriptions/customers-view/gifting-a-subscription/">gift subscriptions to each other</a>, helping you reach new shoppers and grow recurring revenue with less effort.</li>
<li><strong>New! </strong>Include <span style="font-weight: 400"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/subscriptions/store-manager-guide/#downloads-settings">simple and variable downloadable products with your subscriptions</a>. Link new downloadable products and manage existing ones directly from within WooCommerce Subscriptions.</span></li>
</ul>
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<h2>Capture residual revenue with recurring payments</h2>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">With WooCommerce Subscriptions, you can <strong>create and manage products with recurring payments</strong> — payments that will give you residual revenue you can track and count on.</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">A subscription-based model will allow you to <strong>capture more residual revenue</strong> — and all you have to do is ship the orders.</p>
<h2>WooCommerce Subscriptions features</h2>
<div class="twocol-one">
<h4>Free trials and sign-up fees</h4>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full" style="border: 1px solid #e3e3e3" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/themes/woo/images/wc-subscriptions/free-trial-sign-up-fee@2x.jpg" alt="subscriptions-thumb-slots@2x" width="310" height="118" /></p>
<p>Charge an initial amount to account for customer setup costs, or allow customers to try before they buy, by adding sign-up fees and free trials to any subscription product.</p>
<h4>Subscription management</h4>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full" style="border: 1px solid #e3e3e3" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/themes/woo/images/wc-subscriptions/manage-subscription@2x.jpg" alt="subscriptions-thumb-slots@2x" width="310" height="118" /></p>
<p>Store owners get full-featured subscription management via the <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/subscriptions/add-or-modify-a-subscription/">WooCommerce > Edit Subscription</a> screen in your WP Admin dashboard. You can <strong>suspend</strong> or <strong>cancel</strong> a subscription, change the trial expiration, add items, shipping, fees or taxes to the subscription or modify the recurring total for future payments.</p>
<h4>Synchronized payments</h4>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full" style="border: 1px solid #e3e3e3" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/themes/woo/images/wc-subscriptions/sync-renewal@2x.jpg" alt="subscriptions-thumb-slots@2x" width="310" height="118" /></p>
<p>If you only want ship on certain days of the month, or align all customers to the same annual membership term, you can with WooCommerce Subscriptions’ <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/subscriptions/renewal-synchronisation/">renewal synchronization</a> feature. You can even <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/subscriptions/renewal-synchronisation/#prorate-first-payment">prorate the first payment</a> of a synchronized subscription purchase.</p>
<h4>Flexible product options</h4>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full" style="border: 1px solid #e3e3e3" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/themes/woo/images/wc-subscriptions/subscriptions-main@2x.jpg" alt="subscriptions-thumb-slots@2x" width="310" height="118" /></p>
<p>When <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/subscriptions/creating-subscription-products/">creating a subscription product</a>, you can make the product downloadable, virtual or physical, charge renewal payments weekly, monthly or annually, limit the product to one-per-customer and even charge shipping only on the initial order.</p>
<h4>Subscription coupons</h4>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full" style="border: 1px solid #e3e3e3" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/themes/woo/images/wc-subscriptions/subscription-coupons@2x.jpg" alt="subscriptions-thumb-slots@2x" width="310" height="118" /></p>
<p>Offer customers a discount on their monthly payments or only the sign-up fee. Subscriptions includes both <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/subscriptions/subscriptions-coupons/">recurring discount coupons and sign-up fee coupons</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="twocol-one last">
<h4>Variable subscriptions</h4>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full" style="border: 1px solid #e3e3e3" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/themes/woo/images/wc-subscriptions/variable-subscription@2x.jpg" alt="subscriptions-thumb-slots@2x" width="310" height="118" /></p>
<p>Create variable subscription products and allow your customers to choose a subscription that suits their needs. You can even allow customers to choose their own <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/subscriptions/creating-subscription-products/#variable-subscriptions">billing schedule</a>.</p>
<h4>Subscriber account management</h4>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full" style="border: 1px solid #e3e3e3" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/my-subscriptions.png" alt="subscriptions-thumb-slots@2x" width="310" height="118" /></p>
<p>Your customers can also manage their own subscriptions. With the <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/subscriptions/customers-view/">My Account > View Subscription</a> page, subscribers can <em>suspend</em> or <em>cancel</em> a subscription, change the shipping address or payment method for future renewals and upgrade or downgrade their subscription.</p>
<h4>Upgrades/downgrades</h4>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full" style="border: 1px solid #e3e3e3" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/themes/woo/images/wc-subscriptions/subscription-switch-settings@2x.jpg" alt="subscriptions-thumb-slots@2x" width="310" height="118" /></p>
<p>Allow customers to <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/subscriptions/switching-guide/">upgrade, downgrade or cross-grade</a> between different subscription products. With flexible proration options for the recurring amount, sign-up fee and length, you can also customize the costs of switching to a new subscription product to suit the needs of your store.</p>
<h4>Multiple subscriptions</h4>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full" style="border: 1px solid #e3e3e3" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/multiple-subscription-totals.png" alt="subscriptions-thumb-slots@2x" width="310" height="118" /></p>
<p>Your customers can also purchase <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/subscriptions/multiple-subscriptions/">different subscription products in the same transaction</a> and Subscriptions will group the products to reduce the payment gateway fees and logistical overhead for their future renewals.</p>
<h4>Customer emails</h4>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full" style="border: 1px solid #e3e3e3" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/themes/woo/images/wc-subscriptions/renewal-email@2x.jpg" alt="subscriptions-thumb-slots@2x" width="310" height="118" /></p>
<p>Automatically notify customers when a subscription renewal payment is processed, a subscription is cancelled or when a subscription has expired with built-in <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/subscriptions/subscription-emails/">subscription emails</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="woo-sc-box info" style="clear: both">Looking for a way to make your products available for purchase one-time, or on subscription? <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/all-products-for-woocommerce-subscriptions/">All Products</a> is a powerful add-on for WooCommerce Subscriptions that lets you add optional subscription plans to your existing products.</div>
<h2>Capture more residual revenue</h2>
<p>Whether your goal is to ship a surprise bundle of products to faithful customers every month or bill them for an in-person service provided by your small business, <strong>WooCommerce Subscriptions can take the stress out of capturing that all-important residual revenue</strong>.</p>
<p>You’ll be able to track how many subscribers you have, when they’re being billed, and how much revenue you’re generating — meaning you’ll always know how much revenue your store can count on as you continue to grow.</p>
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<h2>How to get started</h2>
<ol>
<li>Download, install, and activate this extension in your WooCommerce store.</li>
<li>Set up your first <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/subscriptions/store-manager-guide/">subscription-based product or service</a> and take it live.</li>
<li>Check out our <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/subscriptions/">detailed documentation</a> to help you customize your subscription products, renewal options and more.</li>
<li>Sit back and enjoy earning more revenue!</li>
</ol>

WooCommerce Subscriptions

<p>Let customers subscribe to your products or services and pay on a weekly, monthly or annual basis.</p>

Order Subscriptions vs WooCommerce Subscriptions