Subscriptions for WooCommerce

Automatic Installation: 

Automatic installation is the easiest option as WordPress handles the file transfers itself and you don’t need to leave your web browser.

The steps are as follows :

1) Download the zip folder of the plugin Subscription For WooCommerce Pro from My Account > Orders > Click on view > Scroll down and download the plugin zip file

2) Once downloaded, install the Subscription For WooCommerce Pro plugin by browsing and activating it.

Note: Visit the Login page to create your account before completing your purchase.

Manual Installation: 

The manual installation of the Subscription for WooCommerce plugin is another option. To install the plugin to your WordPress environment. 

The manual installation method involves downloading our Subscription for WooCommerce  Pro Extension and uploading it to your web server via your favorite FTP application

The steps are as follows :

(i) Kindly, upload the Subscription for WooCommerce Pro folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.

(ii) Activate the Subscription For WooCommerce PRO plugin through the WooCommerce ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

Note: Before activating the Subscription For WooCommerce Pro, you should have the Subscription For WooCommerce – WordPress plugin otherwise, the plugin will not function.

So, if you don’t already have it, you can download it directly from here:

Download Zip

After Purchasing the premium version navigate to My Account > Orders > Your Order. There you’ll find the License Key.

If you want to benefit from all the premium features and automatic updates and access the support platform to receive help from our staff. In that case, it’s necessary to activate the license.

To do so, you have to navigate to the “License” tab, here you can enter the “License Key”, and click on the “Activate” button. Customers are supposed to receive these in their mail when they purchase the premium plugin. 

You can also find the license activation code in the My Accounts > Order section

The subscription for WooCommerces Pro Plugin has advanced features that allow the admin to perform other important functions related to subscription products.

The admin can allow users to set the expiry date of Subscription plans. For that:

• Go to Dashboard > WP Swings > Subscriptions for WooCommerce > Advanced Settings
• Slide the ‘Allow customer to select subscription expiry date’ button.

• Save Changes.

When the user shops on your store, he will get an option to select the subscription expiry interval. Here, the admin has set the expiry to be set in terms of days. The admin can set it to weeks, months and years.   

The admin can set automatic retry for subscription plan payments. Thus, ensuring the WooCommerce recurring orders are fulfilled properly. For that:

• Go to Dashboard > WP Swings > Subscriptions for WooCommerce > Advance Settings
• Slide the ‘Enable automatic retry subscription on failed attempts’ button.

• Save Changes.

The admin can set the number of times he wants to retry for his subscription plan payments.

• Go to Dashboard > WP Swings > Subscriptions for WooCommerce > Advanced Settings
• Enter a certain number in the box provided. That will be the number of failed payment attempts after which the subscription will be canceled.

Admin can allow users to pause their WooCommerce subscription plans. For that:

• Go to Dashboard > WP Swings > Subscriptions for WooCommerce > Advance Settings 
• Slide the ‘Ability to pause the subscription for a certain time by customer’ button.
• Save changes.

How Can Customers Pause Subscription Plans (Frontend)?  

The admin can To pause the subscription plans, the customer has to:

• My Accounts Page > Subscription 
• Select subscription plan > Show

Admin can also allow users to pause their WooCommerce subscription plans. For that:

• Go to Dashboard > WP Swings > Subscriptions for WooCommerce > Advance Settings 
• Slide the ‘Ability to start paused subscription by customer’ option.

• Save settings.

Note: If the admin has not switched this setting, the user will not be able to reactivate any paused subscription plan. 

How Can Customers Re-Activate Paused Subscription plans?

The customers can reactivate the subscription plan similarly by going to:

• My Accounts Page > Subscription 
• Select paused subscription plan > Show

• A notification regarding the successful reactivation will appear.

Admin can also accept manual payment with Subscriptions for WooCommerce Pro plugin. The payment link will go to the user via email.

For that:

• Go to Dashboard > WP Swings > Subscriptions for WooCommerce > Advanced Settings 
• Slide ‘Ability to accept manual payment for subscription’ option.

• Save settings.

Note: – If this option is disabled, only Stripe and PayPal will work, as you can see in the below screenshot

• Go to Dashboard > WP Swings > Subscriptions for WooCommerce > Advanced Settings
• Slide ‘Ability to send subscription is going to expire email notification’ button.

• Save settings.

The admin can decide the number of days after which the subscription expiration email shall be sent. For that:

• Go to Dashboard > WP Swings > Subscriptions for WooCommerce > Advanced Settings 
• Enter the number of days in the box provided.

• Save settings.
  You can further customize your email from the emails section of WooCommerce.

Admin can allow users to upgrade or downgrade WooCommerce variable subscription plans.  For that:

• Go to Dashboard > WP Swings > Subscriptions for WooCommerce > Advanced Settings 
• Slide the ‘ Ability to upgrade/downgrade variable subscription’ option. 

• Save settings.

How Can Customers Upgrade/Downgrade Subscriptions (Frontend)?

Woocommerce Subscriptions function allows users to easily upgrade or downgrade their variable subscription plans in the following steps:

• Go to My Account > Subscriptions 
• Select desired subscription plan > Show

• Under the Subscription Order Details, hit the Upgrade/Downgrade option.  

• Select the desired product for upgrading or downgrading the subscription plan. Customers will be directed to the product where they can upgrade or downgrade their product. 
• Also, the upgrade/downgrade will be done within the current subscription interval unit. As explained in the next settings.  

Similarly, the customers can upgrade or downgrade any existing active, pending, or paused subscription plans.  

Downgraded subscription

1. Allow Only For Same Interval Upgrade/Downgrade Subscriptions

The admin can allow users to upgrade or downgrade subscriptions only for the same interval. This means the user can switch subscriptions in the same interval i.e. days, weeks or months as the current subscription plan. For enabling that:

• Go to Dashboard > WP Swings > Subscriptions for WooCommerce > Advanced Settings

• Slide the ‘Allow only for the same interval in upgrade/downgrade’ option.    

Save Settings.

Stop Downgrade Variable Subscription

The admin can stop users from downgrading variable subscriptions on their WooCommerce subscription store. For that:

• Go to Dashboard > WP Swings > Subscriptions for WooCommerce > Advanced Settings  
• Slide the ‘Stop Downgrade Variable Subscription’

• Save Settings.

Frontend Notification

If a customer tries to downgrade his plans, and the admin has restricted it in the advance settings then a notification will appear on the shop page.

The admin can change the upgrade/downgrade button text. For that: 

• Go to Dashboard > WP Swings > Subscriptions for WooCommerce > Advanced Settings
• Enter the text you want to replace in the provided box.

• Save settings. 

Frontend Upgrade Downgrade Button Text

For example, if you change the button text to ‘Changed Upgrade and Downgrade Button Text’, this is how it would look like. You can change it to another text anytime.

Admin can allow proration on sign-up fees for upgrading or downgrading variable subscription plans. For that:

• Go to Dashboard > WP Swings > Subscriptions for WooCommerce > Advance Settings 
• Slide ‘Ability to accept prorate sign up fee upgrade/downgrade variable subscription’ option.

• Save settings.

The admin can accept a prorate price when users upgrade or downgrade variable subscription plans. For that: 

• Go to Dashboard > WP Swings > Subscriptions for WooCommerce > Advanced Settings 
• Slide the ‘Ability to accept prorate price on upgrade/downgrade variable subscription’ option.

• Save settings.

Note: You can’t change the price after the subscription is made by the user, In case still you want specifically, connect to our support team

Admin can allow users to start a subscription from any date of the month. For that:

• Go to Dashboard > WP Swings > Subscriptions for WooCommerce > Advanced Settings
• Slide the ‘Ability to start subscription from the certain date of the month for subscription’

• Save settings. 

The admin can choose to manage subscription proration amount in the following way:

• Go to Dashboard > WP Swings > Subscriptions for WooCommerce > Advanced Settings
• Navigate to the Manage prorate amount during upgrade/downgrade subscription
• Choose from the following options

• Extend next payment date
• Put leftover amount in the user wallet as wallet credit 

• Save Settings.

Extend Payment Date Notification

Admin can take the subscription renewal payment from the users on a selected day. The subscription payment will be cut on this day after every subscription interval. For that:

• Go to Dashboard > WP Swings > Subscriptions for WooCommerce > Advanced Settings
• Slide the ‘Ability to take renewal subscription payment from the certain date’

The admin can decide the types of proration on subscription plans. In this way, the customer pays for their subscriptions based on the time they are using it. For that:

• Go to Dashboard > WP Swings > Subscriptions for WooCommerce > Advanced Settings 
• Select from the available option under ‘Prorate amount for certain date of month subscription’

1. Charge Prorate Amount for Subscription:

This option is mainly to prorate the first payment. If there is a difference of days between the start of the subscription plan and payment submission day, the admin can decide to take or not take payment for the rest of the days. 

An initial fee based on the days left in the present billing cycle shall be charged from the customer if the first payment is prorated. 

For example, let us assume that a customer takes up a subscription of 30$ per month on the 15th of July. But, the admin calculates the WooCommerce recurring payments from the 20th of every month. In that case, if this option is enabled, the admin can charge (5$) the 5-day amount from the user at the time of sign-up. (As the difference here between 15th and 20th is 5 days) And, from the next 20th the billing cycle will be refined.

Please note, this addition will be made along with sign up fees if any. Admin also needs to allow the feature of ‘enable subscriptions from a certain date of the month’ for this setting.    

2. Do Not Charge Prorate Amount:

If this option is enabled, no prorated amount will be charged from the customers. Merchants will not be able to take payments for the remaining days of the subscription plan.

Taking the same example, if this option is enabled then the customer will pay 30$ for a subscription plan starting from the 15th of this month till the 20th of the next month as the first recurring payment. In short, customers will not pay any fees for the first 5 days and directly pay 30$ next 20th.

3. Charge Prorate Amount For Subscription Even Free Trial:

This option will charge a prorated amount for the subscription plan. It will also include the free trial fees. 

Understanding with the same example, if a 30$ per month subscription plan starts from the 15th and the payment date is the 20th, but the admin has set a free trial of 2 days. Then, the prorated amount will be charged after a 2 days trial.

As in this case, the free trial will end on the 17th. So, customers will have to pay 3 days prorated amount (3$ as the difference between the 17th and 20th is 3 days) at sign-up.   

• Save settings.

The admin can allow users to add WooCommerce multiple subscriptions to their cart. For that:

• Go to Dashboard > WP Swings > Subscriptions for WooCommerce > Advanced Settings
• Slide the ‘Ability to allow the customer to add multiple subscriptions in cart’ option.

• Save settings. 

Multiple Subscriptions In the Cart–Frontend

Customers can add more than one subscription service or product to their cart. For example, 2 have been added here:

Multiple Subscriptions In the Cart–Frontend

Customers can add more than one subscription service or product to their cart. For example, 2 have been added here:

Admin can impose shipping tax on subscriptions products and services. For that:

• Go to Dashboard > WP Swings > Subscriptions for WooCommerce > Advanced Settings
• Slide the ‘Allow shipping cost on subscription products’ option.

• Save settings.

Here is how you can configure their shipping taxation for WooCommerce recurring orders.

Frontend Representation:

The customer can also add multiple quantities of a subscription product or service while they buy a subscription plan. The admin can enable or disable this anytime. For enabling this function:

• Go to Dashboard > WP Swings > Subscriptions for WooCommerce > Advanced Settings  
• Slide the button to enable adding multiple quantities of subscription products.

• Save Settings.

Adding Multiple Quantity On Subscription Products- Frontend 

The customer can add multiple WooCommerce subscriptions to their cart.

The admin can set the start date of subscription products and services. The start date will be visible on the subscription product page.

• Go to Dashboard > WP Swings > Subscriptions for WooCommerce > Advanced Settings  
• Navigate to the ‘Allow start date one subscription products’ option and switch the button.

• Save settings. The admin can now display the subscription start date on the subscription product through subscription settings.

NOTE: In This WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin, when you set a start date for a subscription product. The product or service subscription starts from the set date, but the first subscription amount is taken when the order is placed. Subsequently, the recurring payment will be taken from the following payment date after the start date.

For example, a user buys a subscription product of 99$ from your store on 25 January with a start date of 15 February. In this case, the subscription will start from 15 February. Still, the first payment by the user will be made on 25 January itself on the checkout page(including sign-up fees, if any). After that, the next recurring payment of the subscription product shall be taken from the user on 15 March (as set by the admin in synchronization).         

The Subscription for WooCommerces Pro allows its users to send emails to customers when they are about to deduct the payment. The admin can set a number of days before which they would like to send a reminder email. For that:

•  Go to Dashboard > WP Swings > Subscriptions for WooCommerce > Advanced Settings 
• Navigate to the last option, “Enter the number of days before which you want to send the recurring payment reminder” 

With WooCommerce Subscriptions Pro, the admin can smoothly use the MultiSafepay WordPress plugin. 

Frontend:

For assigning subscriptions to variable products:

• • Go to Dashboard > Products > All Products 
  • Select variable product in product data.
  • Go to variations

• Select the ‘expand’ option to change subscriptions settings for variable products.
• Tick the subscription checkbox for enabling subscriptions on variable products. The variable products will now be available for subscriptions.

Our subscriptions plugin is compatible with the WooCommerce Product Bundles for creating subscriptions for bundled products. To do this, follow these steps: 

• Go to Products >> Add New. 
• Enter your product details such as name, price, category, tags, etc., in the relevant places.
• Select Product Type as Product Bundle and go to the Bundled Products tab. 
• To add new products to your bundle, use the Add product button.

Admin can choose from what exact date he wants to start the subscription service or product. For that:

• Go to Dashboard > Products > All Products > Any Subscription Product > Subscriptions Settings
• Navigate to ‘Choose Subscription Start Date’

• Set the desired date.

• Update the change.

Subscription Start Date On Frontend

The subscription plan start date will be visible just above the product description. The start date of the subscription product might be in the next week, month or year. Still, the first payment shall be taken from the customer during the immediate checkout, along with the sign-up fees, if any. After that, the customer will pay the recurring fees in the upcoming week, month or year. 

Merchants can take renewal subscription payments from a particular day of a week, month or year. The renewal subscription payment from the certain date setting is for a recurring payment cut on the selected day. This means the admin can synchronize days depending upon the subscription per interval, i.e.:

• Monday, Tuesday, etc. in case of weeks
• Day1, Day 2, etc. in case of months
• January, February, etc., in the case of years.    

The recurring payment shall be cut from the subscriber account on this day.

In order to enable subscription plans from a certain date of the month, the admin can enable this feature. 

• Go to Dashboard > Products > All Products > Any Subscription Product > Subscriptions Settings

• Mark the ‘Enable subscription certain date of month’ checkbox   

Subsequently, you can select from the day for synchronization of your payments. That is to say, the subscription payment gets credited to the admin account every month, or week on this specific day.  It depends on the subscription per interval you have chosen. It will show days of the week for weeks, and for years, it will show months. 

You can enable subscription prices for a one-time purchase of products. They can enter a fee for a one-time purchase according to their choice.

Note: Make sure you have set the one-time purchase amount as greater than the subscription price otherwise this will not work

• Go to Dashboard > Products > All Products > Variable Subscription Product > Variations > Expand 

The subscriptions settings for variable products are also the same. 

The admin can set:

• Subscription per interval (months, days, weeks, or years)
• Sign up fee 
• Free trial interval (months, days, weeks, or years)
• Subscription Expiry Interval (months, days, weeks, or years)  
• Choose start date of the subscription product

Enable subscriptions from certain date of month: Admin has to synchronize 

• Days of week when subscription per interval is set to week :

•  Days of month when subscription interval is set to months :

• Month when subscription per interval is set to years :

Pay Now, Start Later:

The start date of the subscription product might be in the next week, month or year. Still, the first payment shall be taken from the customer during the immediate checkout, along with the sign-up fees, if any. After that, the customer will pay the recurring fees in the upcoming week, month or year.

Free Trial Limit and One Time Purchase

Similarly like the simple subscription product you can set thr Free Trial Limit and  One Time Purchase Price

Note: Make sure you have set the one time purchase amount is greater than subscription price otherwise this will not work

Subscription for WooCommerces Pro is compatible with Membership for WooCommerce. Therefore, the admin can also offer membership discounts. Under the description option, you will find the membership discounts.

To offer membership discounts on subscription products and services:

• Go to Dashboard > Products > All Products > Any Variable Subscription Product > Subscriptions Settings

• Navigate to the Membership Discount section. All active membership plans will be shown here.
• Enable discount. The admin can enter a different percentage discount for other membership plans in the box provided.
• Save changes.

The Subscription for WooCommerces Pro enables admin to create exclusive coupons for customers. These coupons can be used by them to avail various discounts. The plugin allows to create coupons for:

• Initial Sign-Up Fee Discount
• Initial Sign-Up Fee Percentage Discount
• Recurring and Product Discount
• Recurring and Product Percentage Discount.

The admin can provide flat discount or percentage discount on subscription based products or services. For that:

• Go to Dashboard > Marketing > Coupons > Add New

• In the Coupon Data section select ‘Discount Type’ from the 4 available options related to subscription coupons.

• Enter Coupon Amount
• Enter Coupon Expiry Date
• Publish.

After purchasing any subscription products, the customer will be shown a related subscription table on the WooCommerce Thank You page. The table will contain details regarding the subscription ID, status, next payment date, and order total.

The customer renewal order will be refunded through the payment method that he has used to place the renewal order. Such as if a customer has used a Stripe payment method to place the renewal order, then the order will be refunded through the Stripe payment method.

Refunds will be initiated through the payment method that has been used. This payment method can be  WooCommerce Eway Gateway, Authorize.Net Payment Gateway For WooCommerce, WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway, WooCommerce PayPal Checkout Payment Gateway.

You can enable subscription prices for a one-time purchase of products. They can enter a fee for a one-time purchase according to their choice.

For enabling subscription price for one-time purchase in variable product, follow these steps:

• From the backend, navigate to Products and select the specific product.
• Click on Variations setting of the product
• Tick the option Subscriptions Price for One Time Purchase and enter the price for it

• Click on the Save Changes button and finally on Update button

On frontend you will be able to view like this:

To create a one-time subscription for a simple product, enable the “One Time Subscription” option to set the subscription price for a single purchase. Follow these steps:

• From the backend, navigate to Products and select the specific product
• Click on Subscription Settings of the product
• Then, enable the Subscriptions Price for One Time Purchase option and enter the price

• Finally click on the Update button

On frontend you will be able to view like this:

Similarly, here you will have to tick on Enable for One Time Subscription option