<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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<ol>
<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.

Enhancer for WooCommerce Subscriptions adds new features to WooCommerce Subscriptions such as Buy Now/Subscribe, updating prices for existing users, a cancel delay, preventing cancel before specific days of renewal, auto-renewal reminder, expiry reminders, manual renewal reminder and separate shipping cycle for subscriptions.
<h2>Benefits of Enhancer for WooCommerce Subscriptions</h2>
<h3>1. Additional Site Revenue</h3>
Subscription Price for Existing(Old) Subscriptions ensures existing subscribers pay the current subscription price at renewal. If the price has gone up, the increased price offers additional revenue for the site.
<h3>2. Additional Control over Subscription Cancellation</h3>
The Subscription Cancel Delay feature allows you to customize the date customers may start cancelling their subscriptions once they’ve subscribed. This prevents users from cancelling their subscription just before the first renewal to take advantage of subscription pricing.
<h3>3. Improve Subscription Renewal Success</h3>
Auto-Renewal Reminder emails alert users to their subscription renewal due date well in advance, so that customers can ensure their payment method has sufficient funds, leading to more successful subscription renewals.
<h2>Popular Features</h2>
<h3>1. Separate Shipping Cycle for Subscriptions</h3>
In WooCommerce Subscriptions, if multiple shipping has to be processed for each renewal of the subscription, then the admin has to manually track and manually process it. It is not possible to set separate shipping cycle for subscriptions.
Using the Separate Shipping Cycle feature, it is possible to set different shipping cycle for subscriptions. A Separate shipping cycle can be configured directly for each subscription product. Users will be notified by email when their shipping cycle order is processed.
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<h3>2. Buy Now/Subscribe</h3>
In WooCommerce Subscriptions, users can only subscribe to predefined subscription products. If the user wants to proceed with a one-time purchase, then it is not possible. Admin may need to create a separate simple/variable product to achieve this. Enhancer for WooCommerce Subscriptions allows you to give your users to subscribe to simple and variable products so that users will have the option to subscribe to the products as well as they can buy them once as per their needs.
<h4>Here’s How it works</h4>
<ul>
<li>On the single product page, before the Add to Cart button, a Subscribe Now checkbox will be visible.</li>
<li>By, default, if the user completes the purchase, it is a one-time purchase.</li>
<li>If the user enables the Subscribe Now checkbox, they will have to choose how frequently they want to receive the product.</li>
</ul>
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<h3>3. Update Subscription Price for Existing(Old) Subscriptions</h3>
Given the default behaviour of WooCommerce Subscriptions, any price change will appear for new subscription orders. Existing subscribers will continue to pay the previous price until they cancel their subscription or it expires. This feature ensures existing subscribers pay the current subscription price.
<h4 class="western" align="left">Here’s how it works</h4>
Let’s say a customer purchased a subscription for $10 per month. Now, the site admin updates the price to $15 per month for new users. If you choose to have existing subscribers pay the latest price, all the existing subscribers will be notified by email about the price change, which will apply to their next renewal.
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<h3>4. Subscribing to Entire Cart as a Single Subscription</h3>
In WooCommerce Subscriptions, users cannot subscribe to products on the cart level. Because of this limitation, users cannot add multiple products to the cart and purchase them as a single subscription. Enhancer for WooCommerce Subscriptions allows your users to add multiple products to their cart and purchase them as a single subscription.
<h4>Here’s How it works</h4>
<ul>
<li>Users add products to their cart and on the cart page, a Subscribe checkbox will be visible.</li>
<li>If they enable the checkbox, they will have to choose how frequently they want to receive the product.</li>
</ul>
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<h3 align="left">5. Allow Cancelling After Specific Number of Days of Subscription Start Date</h3>
In WooCommerce Subscriptions, users can cancel their subscription whenever they want — even  immediately after receiving the order. This can often be a loss for your business because users generally subscribe to a product to get an up-front discount by paying the subscription price compared to the one-time purchase price. When the product is due for renewal, they simply cancel the subscription and purchase whenever they need the product again. Using Subscription Cancel Delay feature, you can prevent your users from cancelling their subscriptions for a fixed duration that you customize.
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The cancel button appears once the subscription’s cancellation waiting period has expired.
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<h3 align="left">6. Allow Cancellation After Specific Days of Renewal</h3>
In WooCommerce Subscriptions, your users can cancel their subscription plan anytime they want. But, if you want to allow users to cancel their subscriptions only after a specified time of their renewal, then using the Allow Cancellation After Specific Days of Renewal feature it is possible.
<h3>7. Prevent Cancelling Before Specific Days of Renewal</h3>
In WooCommerce Subscriptions, users can cancel their subscriptions whenever they want. Users can even cancel the subscriptions a few minutes before subscription renewal. This can often be a loss for the site admin and inconvenience because generally, the products would have been shipped/in the process of being shipped.
Preventing users from cancelling their subscriptions during renewals can prevent unwanted inconvenience and losses. Once configured, the users can cancel their subscriptions till the threshold date for cancelling subscriptions. Once the threshold date is reached, the user cannot cancel their subscription during that renewal. The subscription can be cancelled only during the next renewal. The process repeats all over again.
<h3>8. Auto Renewal Reminder</h3>
For Automatic Renewals with WooCommerce Subscriptions, the charge is attempted on the due date. If the attempt is successful, the user will be charged and the subscription will be renewed. If not, the subscription charging will be re-attempted.
By default, users are not notified about their renewal. Because of that, some users might forget to add funds to their payment source, and the renewal fails. You can customize the date you send the auto-renewal reminder to improve renewal success.
<h3>9. Manual Renewal Reminder Email</h3>
In WooCommerce Subscriptions, users who subscribe to manually renewing subscriptions will not be notified in advance about their subscription renewal. The users will be notified via email only after the subscription renewal date. This can cause an inconvenience to the users because their subscriptions will be put on hold once the subscription renewal date is reached. The subscription will become active only after the renewal payment.
If the users are notified in advanced about their subscription renewal, they can make their renewal payment before the renewal date which can prevent the manually renewing subscription from being put on hold for every renewal.
<h3>10. Trial Expiry Reminder Email</h3>
In WooCommerce Subscriptions, when the trial is about to expire, the users will not be notified in advance. If the user has plans to cancel the subscription at the end of the trial, it would be helpful if they are informed about the trial expiry so that they can make decisions accordingly.
Using the Trial Expiry Reminder Email feature, you can setup when the trial expiry reminder emails should be sent to the users.
<h3>11. Subscription Expiry Reminder</h3>
In WooCommerce Subscriptions, when your user’s limited-duration subscription is about to expire, the user is not notified in advance. Users will be unaware that the subscription has expired or is about to expire. You can customize the date on which you send the auto-renewal reminder to alert customers to the subscription expiry and encourage them to renew it.
Based on the configuration, this email will be sent to the customer regarding their subscription expiry.
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<h3 align="left">12. Multiple Templates for Reminder Emails</h3>
In WooCommerce Subscriptions, you can send multiple email reminders to your users. But, there is one limitation. The same email content will be sent for all the email reminders. If you wish to send different email content for each reminder, you can do so by setting up separate email templates for each reminder.
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<h3>13. Preview Subscription Emails</h3>
In WooCommerce Subscriptions, if you want to view how subscription-related emails look after making changes to the look and feel of the email templates, then you will have to place an actual subscription order or perform the desired subscription related action to view the changes.
Using the Preview Subscription Emails feature, you can preview the changes made to the subscription emails instantaneously by just inputting a previously placed subscription order ID or/and a subscription ID.
Note:
Some email templates require either an order ID or a subscription ID or both.
<h3>14. Limit Subscription Trial</h3>
In WooCommerce Subscriptions, if a Trial is configured for a product, then the customers can use the Trial any number of times which will be a loss for the site admin. Hence, by using the Limit Subscription Trial feature, you can restrict the customers to use the Trial of a product only once.
<h3>15. Limit Subscription in Variant Level</h3>
In WooCommerce Subscriptions, if the subscription purchase is limited to one and if a customer purchases one of the variations of a variable product, then the customer can’t purchase any other variation of the product. Using Limit Subscription in Variant Level feature, you can limit the subscription at a variant level so that the customer can purchase other variations as well.
<h3 align="left">16. Allow Subscription Switching After a Delay</h3>
In WooCommerce Subscriptions, your users can switch to a different subscription plan anytime they want. But, If you wish to allow subscription switching for new and renewed subscriptions after a delay then using the Allow Subscription Switching After a Delay feature it is possible.
<h3 align="left">17. Prevent Switching Before Specific Days of Renewal</h3>
In WooCommerce Subscriptions, your users can switch to a different subscription plan anytime they want. But, if you want to prevent users from switching their subscriptions certain days before their renewal, then using the Prevent Switching Before Specific Days of Renewal feature it is possible.
<h3 align="left">18. Disable Reminder Emails on the Product Level </h3>
Option for the site admin to disable the following Reminder Emails on Product Level,
1. Trial Ending Reminder 
2. Automatic Renewal Reminder 
3. Manual Renewal Reminder 
4. Expiry Reminder 
5. Subscription Price Updated
<h2>Extensive Feature List</h2>
1. Automatically create multiple shipping fulfillment orders for a single billing.
2. Able to create shipping fulfillment orders for old subscriptions running on the site.
3. Frequency to generate shipping fulfillment orders can be customized per product.
4. Frequency of shipping fulfillment orders can be synchronized.
5. Give the option for customers to purchase simple/variable products as one-time purchasable or subscribe to the product using subscription plans.
6. Multiple subscription plans can be created and linked to simple/variable products.
7. Give option for customers to purchase whole cart items as a single subscription using subscription plans.
8. Multiple subscription plans can be created and linked to cart level subscriptions.
9. Cart level subscription option can be given on the cart and checkout page.
10. Different positions supported to display cart level subscription option on the checkout page.
11. Predefined and customer defined subscription plans can be created.
12. Charge the updated subscription price for old subscribers of the product from the next renewal onward.
13. Send email notifications about price updates for the old subscribers.
14. Show cancellation option to subscribers only after a specific number of days of the subscription start date.
15. Show cancellation option to subscribers only after specific number of days of renewal date.
16. Hide the cancellation option to subscribers before a specific number of days of the renewal date.
17. Auto renewal reminder to notify subscribers before the subscription due date reminding them that an automatic charge is going to happen.
18. Manual renewal reminder to notify subscribers before the subscription due date reminding them that their subscription renewal is nearing.
19. Trial expiry reminder to notify subscribers before a specific number of days of trial end date of the subscription.
20. Subscription expiry reminder to notify subscribers before specific number of days of end date of their subscription.
21. Create multiple templates to send different content for different email notifications for different products as per your wish.
22. Preview option for the subscription emails to see how the actual email looks like.
23. Option to limit the trial to one so that customers won’t be able to misuse the trial which you offer.
24. If the subscription limit is set to one, then if it is a variable subscription product, then it is possible to limit the subscription to a variant level.
25. Allow subscribers to switch to different subscriptions only after specific number of days from subscription start date.
26. Allow subscribers to switch to different subscriptions only after a specific number of days from renewal date.
27. Prevent subscribers from switching to different subscriptions before a specific number of days of the renewal date.
28. Product level option to disable reminder emails for specific products.
<h3>Requirements</h3>
Minimum PHP version: 5.6 
Plugins: <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-subscriptions/">WooCommerce Subscriptions</a>
Enhancer for WooCommerce Subscriptions helps you to have more control and earn more revenue from the subscriptions offered on your site.

Enhancer for WooCommerce Subscriptions

Additional features for WooCommerce Subscriptions such as Updating Price for Existing Users, Cancel Delay, Auto-Renewal Reminder, etc.

Prepaid for WooCommerce Subscriptions vs Enhancer for WooCommerce Subscriptions