What is WooCommerce Subscriptions?

About WooCommerce

WooCommerce is a free eCommerce plugin for WordPress. It is designed to allow users with little technical knowledge to set up online stores using the WordPress platform.

WooCommerce Subscription

WooCommerce Subscription is an extension plugin for WooCommerce that allows online stores to offer subscription products to their customers. Subscription products can be used for renting Video Games, Fixed Tv Cable or Satellite channels, or access to Music Streaming services.

You can create product-of-the-month clubs, weekly service subscriptions, or even yearly software billing packages with the WooCommerce Subscription plugin. The online store must be using WooCommerce (which it generally should be) for this plugin to work.

WooCommerce Subscriptions can be used by:

Retailers to sell access, memberships, or subscriptions.
Service providers who charge a regular fee for a service.
Anyone looking to sell a product with a recurring billing cycle.

It was founded by Matt Mullenweg.

Features & Functionality

Free Trials & Sign-Up Fees: Create free trial periods or sign-up fees for your subscriptions.
Variable Subscriptions: Offer Variable products with multiple subscription durations to customers.
Automatic Renewals: Configure automatic renewals for your product so it will automatically charge the customer's credit card upon expiration.
Synchronized Payments: Manage synchronized payments to ensure that all customers are charged on the same date each month/year.
Coupons & Promotions: Create coupons and promotions to offer discounts on your subscriptions.
Payment Gateways: Supports over 25 payment gateways out of the box for automatic recurring payments
Upgrades/Downgrades: This Allows your customers to upgrade or downgrade their subscriptions whenever they want.
Multiple Subscriptions: This Allows customers to have more than one active subscription at a time.
Manual renewal payments: This also allows you to manually charge the customer's card for a subscription, in case automatic billing fails.