Subscriptions for WooCommerce free WordPress plugin

Subscriptions are a great way to ensure regular revenue from your WooCommerce store. This WooCommerce extension helps you create simple subscriptions on your store. You can create subscriptions out of physical, downloadable or virtual products. The subscriptions can be of different billing periods and intervals. Once you install the plugin, you can create subscription products just like you create any other WooCommerce products. The plugin will add a field in the product type drop-down – ‘simple subscription’ which you can choose accordingly. You can further add the terms for subscriptions and the renewal cycles in the Product Data settings. On the plugin settings tab, you can configure the text displayed on the front-end and allow mixed checkout to customers. Here you can change the My Account tab name, Page Title, add-to-cart Button Text and Place Order Button Text. Features of Subscriptions for WooCommerce: Create simple subscription products Create subscription products with different billing periods such as ‘day’, ‘week’, ‘month’ or ‘year’. A choice to schedule an interval from the 1st to 6th of these billing periods is also available. For example, you can set subscriptions that renews fortnightly (every two weeks), bi-monthly (every two months), bi-annually (every six months) or biennially (every two years). Display subscription products along with individual products on your Shop page. Your customers can choose to opt for a subscription according to their preference (based on the subscription plans that you set up). However, customers need to register on your store to initiate a subscription. Renew subscriptions automatically or manually. Please note, automatic renewals will be dependent on the payment gateway that you choose. Manage the terms of subscriptions on the WooCommerce admin page (WooCommerce > WebToffee Subscriptions). Enable customers to purchase a subscription and a normal product in the same order using the ‘mixed checkout’ option. Allow customers to cancel their subscriptions from the ‘My Account’ page. They can also change the shipping address if required. Tested OK with WooCommerce 3.3.4 Once your customers start opting for subscriptions from your store, you will have regular income coming to your store. In such a scenario, you can invest more time and money in diversifying your business. If you have any queries, suggestions, or need help to set up this plugin, please contact us at https://www.webtoffee.com/support/ Subscriptions for WooCommerce Premium version Features * Create simple and variable subscription products * Create subscription products with different billing periods such as ‘day’, ‘week’, ‘month’ or ‘year’. A choice to schedule an interval from the 1st to 6th of these billing periods is also available. For example, you can set subscriptions that renews fortnightly (every two weeks), bi-monthly (every two months), bi-annually (every six months) or biennially (every two years). * Display subscription products along with individual products on your Shop page. Your customers can choose to opt for a subscription according to their preference (based on the subscription plans that you set up). However, customers need to register on your store to initiate a subscription. * Renew subscriptions automatically or manually. Please note, automatic renewals will be dependent on the payment gateway that you choose. * Manage the terms of subscriptions on the WooCommerce admin page (WooCommerce > WebToffee Subscriptions). * Enable customers to purchase a subscription and a normal product in the same order using the ‘mixed checkout’ option. * Allow customers to cancel their subscriptions from the ‘My Account’ page. They can also change the shipping address if required. * Tested OK with WooCommerce 3.2 * Frequent releases with new features and compatibility updates * Excellent Support for setting it up Please visit WebToffee WooCommerce Subscriptions for more details Configuring the WooCommerce Subscription plugin: Once you have successfully activated the plugin, you can access the Settings from Installed Plugins page. After clicking on Settings there will be 4 options.All these options will have their tool-tip right next to them. One more option will be there in the Settings. By clicking this option you will enable the purchase of both subscription as well as normal product together. It is to be noted that without enabling this option normal products won’t be purchased alongside a subscription product. After these settings, products can be added just like wy products are added in WooCommerce. This plugin adds two more categories of products under Product Data, namely: Simple Subscriptions How to add Simple Subscription products? A Simple Subscription product is any product which is sold under subscription charges. To add Simple Subscription products follow the steps below: Click on Products from your WooCommerce store Dashboard. Now click on Add New. It will take you to the product editor where you can enter details about the product. Add Product Name and Description. You can also add images and any other documentation here. Now under the option Product Data, choose Simple Subscription You can also click the options Virtual – for products like memberships, and Downloadable – for products such as softwares, music files, etc. So now as the basic details are filled, goto General tab and add the price and subscription intervals for the product. There will be two options available here: Subscription price- It contains the price of the subscription, billing interval and the billing period. Subscription Length- This settings shows the time period after which the subscription automatically expires. After adding all the other details such as tags, short description, etc. just like other products in WooCommerce, Publish the product and it will be visible under the product page. Categorising Subscription products Subscriptions are mainly of two types: Physical Subscriptions It contains all the physical products such as books, magazines, beauty products, dietary supplements, gifts, etc. Digital Subscriptions It contains all the digital products such as audio and video files, TV subscriptions such as Netflix, News, blogs, etc. How to get a subscription and track your order using WooCommerce Subscription plugin by WebToffee? Availing a subscription and tracking the order is very easy in WooCommerce Subscription plugin. To avail the subscription follow the steps below: Customers can search for their required products that they want to subscribe. Once finding the product and clicking on it, customers can go through the details such as description, price, etc. before placing an order. After that customers can select the number of products that they want and then click on Book Now. After this customers will be redirected to the Checkout Details page. Here customers will add the shipping details. They will also be able to select payment options. Recurring Payments We support most payments gateways which support subscription payments. This includes Stripe, Paypal, Authorize.net, Amazon Pay and Apple Pay. Recurring payment is a transaction which occurs periodically over the time. When you buy a product or service which comes with a recurring payment option, it involves authorising the store owner to collect the required charges from your credit card or bank account on the due date of every billing cycle. How WooCommerce Subscriptions handle recurring payments? Since recurring payments are bound to repeat after completion of billing cycle, WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin makes sure a new order is placed as soon as the due date is reached. This allows you to get notification on completion of due date and if the permission is given (in case of Direct Bank Transfer) the charges are deducted from customer’s bank account. How WooCommerce Subscriptions helps you to start a Subscription Business Website? Our WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin helps you set up different types of subscription commerce websites. Convenience Commerce Receiving the same products automatically on a repeat purchase basis. Discovery Commerce Helps consumers discover and sample new products they might not have otherwise known about. The most popular subscription commerce model currently is subscription boxes. Every month, week or year customers pay a subscription fee to receive products personally delivered to them in a box. Be it cosmetics, male grooming products, pet food or movies, mystery and surprise nearly always plays a role as you don’t always know what you are going to receive. Subscription Commerce is also known as ‘Subcom’. There a few different names for Subscription Commerce. ‘Subscription box’ is the most frequently used and best known. Other terms include things like ‘lazy boxes’ and even ‘sample boxes’ or ‘replenishment boxes’. Industry insiders usually refer subscription commerce as ‘subcom’ Successful subscription boxes are those who have targeted a specific niche. You can start and run below types of subscription box business. Beauty & Fashion Subscription Books Subscription Women Subscription Men Subscription Kids Subscription Baby Subscription Food Subscription Beverage Subscription Geek Subscription Gaming Subscription Fitness Subscription Outdoors Subscription Family Subscription Art & Culture Subscription Pets Subscription Home & Living Subscription Novelty Subscription Green Subscription Crafts, DIY, & Hobby Subscription All these types of businesses This clearly shows the potential in the field of online subscription business as well as its effect on people. Gourmet food samples, pet stuff, manly grooming products and of course cosmetics. Everywhere you look nowadays you see people receiving membership boxes in the mail. Because the benefits of creating your own subscription or membership box company are invaluable and the concept is so simple; customers pay a subscription fee that varies from quarterly to monthly, weekly and even daily, and they receive a product or a range of products they love on a recurring basis. Nowadays it costs near nothing to set up a website and begin taking recurring payments from your customers. With WordPress, WooCommerce and WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin you can setup a subscriptions website in hours. You don’t always even need to pay for stock upfront, you can look at drop shipping or even sourcing products on credit. You send your customers through a sales checkout process just the one time and turn that one off purchase into guaranteed monthly recurring billing with a subscription e-commerce model. With a subscription box business you can predict the volume of orders you’ll need to fulfill and send out in a given period. The result means that you can plan your stock and inventory easier and reduce wastage. Also, the retention rates play a key role in the profitability of a successful subscription commerce business. There are so many options when it comes to retail be it food, fashion, technology or anything else you can purchase. We are entering into a phase of ‘curation’ both online and offline. Technology empowered more people to set up shop and sell a physical or digital product. But we are often overwhelmed with the amount of choice when looking to make a purchase of some kind. Subscription boxes solve this problem. The items in the box are usually specially curated to suit your customers lifestyle, needs or preferences. Subscription box businesses are like personal shoppers. Figure out your subscription box service and you’ll have a fully automated recurring revenue generating business. After your customer makes their first purchase, whether paying in full or recurring payments they simply receive the box with a smile on their face and thats it. We will keep on working on our WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin to empower your recurring revenue business. Credits WebToffee Subscriptions for WooCommerce bundles the following third-party resource by Prospress, Inc. It uses the Action Scheduler. Copyrights and licenses indicated in said libararies. Action Scheduler is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, Version 2 (or later) Source: https://github.com/Prospress/action-scheduler/