<h2>Offer prepaid plans with additional delivery options</h2>
Prepaid for WooCommerce Subscriptions is a great addition to WooCommerce Subscriptions, which helps you increase revenue by offering prepaid options for your subscription products. 
Features in a nutshell:
<ul>
<li>Add prepaid plans in addition to your regular subscription options. For example, an Annual plan in addition to a Monthly plan.</li>
<li>Users can upgrade from the regular subscription to the prepaid plan.</li>
<li>Deliver orders on a different schedule than billing (e.g., pay annually, ship monthly).</li>
<li>Custom cancellation options help users keep their subscription until the prepaid period is over.</li>
<li>Several product layouts and pricing string customizations.</li>
<li>Three ways to charge for shipping.</li>
<li>Add-to-cart link for each prepaid plan that you can insert anywhere on your site.</li>
<li>Friendly UI sequence for each prepaid subscription and adjusted email notifications.</li>
</ul>
When you add prepaid plans to your regular subscriptions, your customers may choose whether they want to pay for each delivery or pay upfront for a longer period to get the best deal possible. 
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<h3>How is this different from variable subscriptions? </h3>
Using variable subscriptions allows you to create limited variations for a subscription product, including various subscription durations. For example, when you offer three variations such as: for one week, one month or one year, these products will be delivered respectively once a week, a month or once a year. But when you want your customers to pay for one year and provide products every month, you have no option to do this by default. 
Prepaid for WooCommerce Subscriptions lets you create as many prepaid plans for each subscription product as you want and make shipments regularly. It also helps you provide accurate information to your clients about subscription lengths and delivery schedules, offers them better deals for long-term subscriptions, and charge them for shipping the best way. 
<h2>Switching to a prepaid plan from a regular subscription. </h2>
Consider offering prepaid plans to make your revenue streams more predictable. When a customer signs up for a longer subscription plan and pays upfront, you can count on that revenue for the entire year. With Prepaid for WooCommerce Subscriptions, you can offer upgrades from a regular subscription (e.g., monthly) to a prepaid plan (e.g., annually) directly from the user’s account:
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Don’t forget that you can offer discounts for longer-term usage and highlight it with customizable pricing strings to make your offer more attractive to your current customers.
The prepaid plans may help you generate more revenue and increase the lifetime value of each subscription.
<h3>How to deliver on a different schedule to billing (e.g. pay annually, ship monthly)</h3>
There are two methods of selling prepaid plans: 
<ul>
<li>Offer prepaid options in addition to regular subscriptions. E.g., pay for one or two years and get a monthly delivery or pay every month as usual. </li>
<li>Offer ONLY prepaid options and ship on a different schedule. E.g., pay upfront for three or six months and get weekly shipping without the option to pay every week.  </li>
</ul>
When the customer pays for a certain period in advance you can expect to generate stable and predictable profits. This feature is widely used by magazine publishers that may charge upfront for one year and ship every month on a particular date. With Prepaid for WooCommerce Subscriptions and synchronizing renewals feature, you can offer such kind of subscription. 
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<h3>Features</h3>
Choose from two layouts for the product page. You can adjust the subscription product page to display prepaid options favorably for clients.
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Three payment methods for shipping: 
<ul>
<li>Default payment – charged regularly per every shipment as it is now with your usual subscription.</li>
<li>Upfront payment – your regular shipping cost multiplied by the number of subscription pieces in the prepaid plan and charged once for the entire prepaid period at the first checkout.</li>
<li>Custom payment – you can specify the flat-rate cost for each prepaid plan separately that will be charged once the customer signs up. </li>
</ul>
Customize pricing strings and add an extra description for every prepaid option using variables. It helps you adjust prepaid functionality and use a separated shipping schedule that suits your preferred shipping options. 
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Adjustments to the cart, checkout, and user account pages to let your customers track their subscription statuses. 
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Prepaid for WooCommerce Subscriptions has a user-friendly admin interface for managing prepaid subscriptions. You can find a prepaid sequence area in every prepaid subscription to help you figure out the delivery schedule for each client. 
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Use prepaid addition to emails to inform your clients about what’s going on with their subscriptions, how many deliveries are left, and when the next renewal payments will come. 
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Canceling prepaid subscription. There are two options to prevent canceling ongoing subscriptions:
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<li>Regular cancel subscription button on user account – cancels prepaid subscription right away, no matter how many prepaid pieces have left. This one is needed in case you have any costs associated with delivering prepaid subscription products.  </li>
<li>Cancel prepaid button – subscription won’t be canceled right off the bat but will wait until all prepaid pieces are delivered, and auto-cancels after the last piece is shipped. </li>
</ol>
Each prepaid plan also has its own Add to cart URL which is used in those cases when you need to offer a subscription not from the product page, but from the pricing table or any other place outside of the product page. 
Prepaid for WooCommerce Subscriptions works with almost any regular WooCommerce Subscription setup and setting (for both simple and variable subscription-based products).
<h3>Limitations: </h3>
<ul>
<li>Prepaid for WooCommerce Subscriptions works with both Simple and Variable subscription products (products should be subscription-based only, not the ones modified by the All Products for Subscriptions plugin). </li>
<li>There’s no option to switch between regular and prepaid subscriptions. The only thing users can do is cancel one subscription and pay for another subscription type. </li>
<li>Prepaid plans don’t work with the prorated payments option. You still can use synchronizing renewals, but only when prorated first renewal is set to never, and the full amount is charged upfront. </li>
</ul>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
Minimum PHP version: 5.6 
Plugin: <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-subscriptions/">WooCommerce Subscriptions</a> 
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Prepaid for WooCommerce Subscriptions

Deliver products on a different schedule to the recurring payments by offering prepaid plans for regular subscriptions.

<h2>Offer subscription discounts</h2>
Discounts for WooCommerce Subscriptions is the first specialized tool to manage the pricing of recurring payments for the WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin. 
You can manipulate the price in several ways: 
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Apply fixed or progressive percentage discounts to renewal prices so your clients pay less when they stay with you. </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Increase the cost of subscription renewals depending on the subscription period to earn more with every renewal. </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Specify personal discounts for various users using role-based discounts. </li>
<li>Assign discounts for plans made with <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/all-products-for-woocommerce-subscriptions/">All Products for Subscriptions</a> extension to Simple and Variable products and <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/product-bundles/">Product Bundles.</a></li>
</ul>
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<h2>Features</h2>
<ul>
<li>Discounts work with both simple and variable subscription products</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Two ways to assign discounts: fixed prices and percentage discounts </li>
<li>Coupon codes with applied discounts sequence</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Individual discounts based on user roles </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Display discount tables on product pages to explain discount policy </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Customize text explainers and discount table headings to outline the benefits </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Choose to display or hide discount tables from product pages </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Apply discounts rules for existing subscriptions </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Customize the discount table placement on product pages </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Use negative values for discounts to increase the cost of subscription renewals </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">The user account, cart, checkout, and service emails show current discounts and potential discount upgrades </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Adjustments to the wp-admin area to help you track down and forecast subscription discounts </li>
<li>All functions work with subscription plans made with help of the All Products for Subscriptions extension as well as with subscription-based products</li>
<li>All Products for Subscriptions implies the use of Simple, Variable, or Bundles products </li>
</ul>
Example
You have a subscription that costs $100 per month and you want your subscribers to pay less starting at six months and earn an additional discount at 12 months. You can assign a 5% discount to renewals at six months and another 5% off the original subscription price at the second renewal at 12 months. 
Then your subscribers will pay: 
$100 on the initial order and every subscription renewal for five months
$95 per month, after being subscribed for six months 
$90 per month, starting from the 12th month
You also can increase prices with each renewal and make them pay: 
$100 on the initial order
$110 on subscription renewal 
$120 on second renewal, and so on 
Or make role-based discounts and let everyone with a Subscriber role get discounts if they sign up for another subscription product. 
<h2>Advanced Coupon-Based Discount Sequences</h2>
This feature revolutionizes the way you manage subscription discounts by integrating the discount sequence into regular WooCommerce Coupon Codes, offering you extra flexibility and use cases for coupon codes.
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You can set up discount sequences that activate only when a specific coupon code is applied, adding an extra layer of customization and exclusivity to your subscription plans. Your coupons can be set as either a percentage discount or a fixed cost for renewal.
How it works: Simply create a new coupon in your WooCommerce dashboard with a percentage off or a fixed discount for the first usage, and attach our advanced discount sequence to it. This allows you to manipulate the price of the subscription with each renewal. You can create coupons that operate in both ways—either discounting or increasing the cost of subscription renewals. Additionally, there’s an option to set a 0% discount (or fixed cost), which will revert the subscription to its original cost after a certain number of renewals have passed.
<h2>How to set up discounts</h2>
Discounts are set at the product level so that you can have a separate discount policy for every product and product variation with their own custom discounted periods and rates. 
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Use fixed discounts (or negative percentage rates) for subscription renewals to increase the cost of subscription renewals events. 
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Or set up role-based discounts to offer special prices to some user groups or existing subscribers. 
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<h2>Customize product page views</h2>
Everything you can find in the discounts section on the product page is customizable. 
Use templates to give customers a clear understanding of your discounts policy and change the discounts table placement according to your needs and theme styling. 
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The plugin utilizes the default table styling of your theme so you don’t need to play around with CSS fixes to fit your theme. You can also choose where to place a discount table on the product page or disable it, and discounts will still be available for your customers.
<h2>All Products for Subscriptions add-on</h2>
Discounts can be applied to Simple & Variable product types + Bundles products, where subscription is handled via the All Products for Subscription plugin. You can get all of the benefits that are available for regular subscription products, for plans created via All Products for Subscription (including role-based discounts, a discount table on the product page, both percentage discounts and fixed pricing, etc).   
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<h2>Discount management </h2>
Discounts for WooCommerce Subscriptions also provides you with the option to either apply discount rates to any existing subscriptions (manually through the Apply Discount option on the user subscription page) or assign discounts only for new signups.
We also help you track and forecast discounts for each subscription through the discount sequence area on the subscription page.
And notify your customers about their current and potential discounts in the user account, cart, checkout, and service emails.
It is more profitable to retain current customers than attract new ones. You don’t need to spend money on traffic, marketing, user onboarding, etc. So why not try to offer your existing customers the best possible deals to keep them with you as long as you want?
Discounts for WooCommerce Subscriptions is simple to set up and manage extensions. It multiplies customer retention rates and LTV. 
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<h3>Requirements</h3>
Minimum PHP version: 5.2 
Plugins: <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-subscriptions/">WooCommerce Subscriptions</a>

Discounts for WooCommerce Subscriptions

Offer discounts on subscription renewals or offer role-based discounts—make subscription products highly profitable, increase customer retention rates and your store’s long-term value.

Prepaid for WooCommerce Subscriptions vs Discounts for WooCommerce Subscriptions