1.Overview

Boost your customer’s loyalty and Improve your customer retention rate with Our WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin allows you to set up subscription-based products and Create Manual Subscriptions Admin can create a manual subscription from the subscription table and assign it to an individual user. You can customize your subscription order manually according to a specific user’s needs and requirements, The Manual subscription feature also allows you to choose a parent order to fetch the payment details made by Paypal or Stripe to ensure a smooth workflow when the subscription gets renewed.
  • Add Products: The Admin is capable of adding products of his desire to the manual subscription.
  • Select Parent Orders: The admin can select the parent orders to fetch the payment details made by Stripe or Paypal.
  • Set Intervals: Admin can manually set subscription interval and subscription expiry interval.
  • Set Subscription Actions:  The Admin can choose the action that will be done after the manual subscription is created and assigned to users. For Example: (Send Email invoice to Customer, Resend New Order Notification, etc.)
  • Auto fetch the Billing Details: The Billing details will be auto-fetched when the customer is selected.
  • Subscription Notes: The admin can add a private or customer’s note on the manual subscription order.
Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to set up the WooCommerce Subscription plugin and create manual subscription orders.

2.Download and Install

Install the Subscription for WooCommerce Pro by WP Swings.

  • Purchase the plugin and download it.
  • Log in to your WooCommerce store’s admin panel.
  • Navigate to “Plugins” > “Add New” in the WordPress dashboard.
  • Click the “Upload Plugin” button and upload the plugin file.
  • After uploading, click “Install Now” and then “Activate“

3.Creating Manual Subscription Orders

Navigate to the “Subscription Table” in the Subscription plugin and Click on “Add Manual Subscription”.

Add manual subscription

Then you’ll see a page to create a manual subscription order.

order details section

3.1.General

Now, Let’s talk about the General Section in Order Details

Date Created: Here is the subscription creation date which will be autofilled.

Status: Choose Wps Renewal as Status.

Customer:  Here you can select the customer to whom you want to assign this subscription.

select customer

Parent Order: After Choosing your Customer all the orders associated with that customer (Paid by Paypal & Stripe)  will be automatically fetched here.

parent order

Note: Having a Parent Order is required.

3.2.Billing & Shipping

Let’s take a look at the billing and shipping section.

Billing and shipping update

Now you can either fill in the billing and shipping details manually or You can click on “Load Billing Address” to auto-fetch the billing details from the parent order.

The same goes for the shipping. You can manually fill in the shipping address or you can click on “Load Shipping Address” to auto-fetch the shipping details from the parent order. 

You can also copy the billing address to the shipping address by clicking on “Copy Billing Address”

Note: Make sure to select Paypal or Stripe in the Payment Method

3.3.Add items and Apply Coupons

Proceeding further, you can also add items (Products, Additional fees, Shipping Charges) and coupons.

add and apply coupon

To add an item click on “Add Items”


From here you can add items like Products, Additional fees, and Shipping charges.

Click on Add Product to choose your product and its quantity.

Similarly, you can add Shipping charges and Additional fees.

3.4.Other Actions

Now let’s move to the sidebar.

other settings

Subscription Schedule Data: Here you can set Subscription Per Interval and Subscription Expiry Interval.

Subscription Actions: Here you can choose from the actions to be done after the subscription is created like emailing invoice/order details to the customer, Resend New Order Notification, or Regenerate Download Permission. 

Subscription Notes: Here you can add additional notes to the subscription.

After adding the required details click on the Create button to create the subscription.

3.5.Subscription Table and Renewal

You can see all the subscriptions in the subscription table. Subscriptions that are created by admin manually show as “Via Manual Method” under the Payment Method column.

subscription table
After the subscription interval, you’ll get the option to “Create Recurring” under your subscription.
create recurring revenue
After Clicking on it a new subscription renewal order will be created.

From there you can manage and change the order status of your recurring subscription orders.

For further details and comprehensive guidance, refer to the plugin’s documentation to ensure a smooth implementation of Subscription for WooCommerce Pro.

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