<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>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:
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<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.

Prepaid for WooCommerce Subscriptions vs Order Subscriptions