<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.

<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>
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<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>New! 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>New! Include <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.</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Capture residual revenue with recurring payments</h2>
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.
With WooCommerce Subscriptions, you can create and manage products with recurring payments — payments that will give you residual revenue you can track and count on.
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.
A subscription-based model will allow you to capture more residual revenue — and all you have to do is ship the orders.
<h2>WooCommerce Subscriptions features</h2>
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<h4>Free trials and sign-up fees</h4>
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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.
<h4>Subscription management</h4>
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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 suspend or cancel a subscription, change the trial expiration, add items, shipping, fees or taxes to the subscription or modify the recurring total for future payments.
<h4>Synchronized payments</h4>
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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.
<h4>Flexible product options</h4>
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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.
<h4>Subscription coupons</h4>
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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>.
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<h4>Variable subscriptions</h4>
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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>.
<h4>Subscriber account management</h4>
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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 suspend or cancel a subscription, change the shipping address or payment method for future renewals and upgrade or downgrade their subscription.
<h4>Upgrades/downgrades</h4>
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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.
<h4>Multiple subscriptions</h4>
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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.
<h4>Customer emails</h4>
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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>.
</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>
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, WooCommerce Subscriptions can take the stress out of capturing that all-important residual revenue.
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.
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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

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

Prepaid for WooCommerce Subscriptions vs WooCommerce Subscriptions