<p>This extension allows to limit which payment methods customers can use at checkout. Restrictions can be based on group memberships, roles, countries, and order amounts. As a shop owner, you benefit from its efficient and flexible approach.</p>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li>Restrict the use of any payment method based on group memberships, roles, countries, and order amounts.</li>
<li>Free of complicated rules, easily manage which payment methods your customers are allowed to use.</li>
<li>Restrictions are conveniently managed for all payment methods in a subsection of the Payments settings.</li>
<li>The extension is very intuitive, quick, and easy to set up and use.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Restrictions</h3>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A new <strong>Restrictions</strong> section is added to the Payments settings, where payment method restrictions are shown and managed for all payment methods.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18734004809230" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/RPM-Settings-Payments-Restrictions.png" alt="A colorful composition showing the Restrictions overview where settings are managed." width="980" height="780" /></p>
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<h3>Restriction Features</h3>
<p>Payment methods can be restricted using one or more criteria:</p>
<p><strong>Restrictions by Group Memberships</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Restrict to Group Members: Limit the use of a payment method to members of one or several groups. The free <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/groups/">Groups</a> plugin is required for this option.</li>
<li>Exclude for Group Members: Exclude members of one or more groups from using a payment method. The free <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/groups/">Groups</a> plugin is required for this option.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Restrictions by Roles</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Restrict to Roles: Limit the use of a payment method to one or more roles.</li>
<li>Exclude for Roles: Exclude one or more roles from using a payment method.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Restrictions by Countries</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Restrict to Billing Countries: Limit the use of a payment method to one or more billing countries.</li>
<li>Exclude for Billing Countries: Exclude one or more billing countries from using a payment method.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Restrictions by Order Amount Limits</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Minimum Order Amount: Restrict the use of a payment method to require a minimum order amount. Shipping and taxes can be excluded from the computation.</li>
<li>Maximum Order Amount: Restrict the use of a payment method to orders that do not exceed a certain order amount. Shipping and taxes can be excluded from the computation.</li>
</ul>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18734004809233" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/RPM-Example-Settings.png" alt="A colorful composition showing examples of restriction settings for different payment methods." width="980" height="780" /></p>
<p>In addition to restrictions, settings for payment methods include options to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Evaluate limits excluding taxes from order amounts.</li>
<li>Evaluate limits excluding shipping from order amounts.</li>
<li>Log debugging information about rejection reasons applied, which is helpful during tests.</li>
</ul>
<p>The extension also integrates with <em>WPML</em> to support currency conversion for order amount restrictions.</p>

Restrict Payment Methods

<p>Limit the use of Payment Methods by Group Memberships, Roles, Countries, and Order Amounts.</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>

Restrict Payment Methods vs WooCommerce Subscriptions