Description
Subscriptify Subscriptions Lite for WooCommerce adds practical subscription functionality for simple WooCommerce products without requiring a premium subscription extension.
This plugin is designed for free/lite use cases:
- Mark simple products as subscription products.
- Configure billing interval and period.
- Add optional trial days.
- Create subscription records automatically from checkout orders.
- Generate renewal orders.
- Let customers manage subscriptions from My Account.
Important: this plugin does not include gateway-level automatic recurring token charges. Renewals are handled as WooCommerce renewal orders (manual or standard gateway payment flow).
Current Added Features
- Subscription toggle on simple products.
- Billing interval and billing period (
day,week,month,year). - Optional trial period in days.
- Optional max renewals (
0= unlimited). - Subscription details shown in cart/checkout item data.
- Subscription metadata saved to order line items.
- Automatic subscription creation after checkout.
- Renewal scheduling via WP-Cron.
- Renewal order generation linked to subscription.
- Payment-aware renewal flow (
pendingrenewal order,on-holdwhile unpaid, next cycle scheduled after paid renewal). - 1-day renewal reminder email.
- Fixed-cycle expiry support (
expiredstatus when max renewals reached). - My Account
Subscriptionsendpoint. - Customer actions: Cancel, Reactivate, Pause, Resume, Renew Now.
- Cycle progress display for limited subscriptions.
- Admin submenu: WooCommerce > Subscriptions Lite.
- Admin subscription list with user/product/status/next payment.
- Admin quick status actions: Activate, Pause, Cancel.
- WooCommerce dependency check and admin notice.
Installation
- Upload the
subscriptify-subscriptions-wc-litefolder to/wp-content/plugins/. - Activate Subscriptify Subscriptions Lite for WooCommerce from the Plugins screen.
- Ensure WooCommerce is active.
- Go to Settings > Permalinks and click Save Changes once.
- Edit a simple product, enable Subscription product, and configure subscription settings.
FAQ
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Does this plugin support automatic recurring charges?
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Not by default. It creates renewal orders and relies on normal WooCommerce payment flow. Manual renewal payment works. Gateway-tokenized auto-charge is not included in this lite version.
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Which product types are supported?
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Simple products.
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How are renewals scheduled?
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Renewals are scheduled using WordPress cron (
WP-Cron). Traffic and cron setup affect timing accuracy. -
Can customers pause and resume subscriptions?
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Yes. Customers can pause/resume from My Account.
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Can subscriptions end automatically after a set number of renewals?
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Yes. Use Max renewals on the product. When reached, status becomes
expired.
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Contributors & Developers
“Subscriptify Subscriptions Lite for WooCommerce” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.1.0
- Added max renewals support and cycle tracking.
- Added pause/resume and renew-now customer actions.
- Added payment-aware renewal scheduling (schedule next cycle only after paid renewal).
- Added renewal reminder email (1 day before renewal).
- Added expiry status for fixed-cycle subscriptions.
- Added admin quick status actions.
- Reliability and flow improvements for free/lite usage.
1.0.0
- Initial release.
- Subscription product toggle and billing fields.
- Trial days support.
- Subscription creation from checkout.
- Scheduled renewal order generation.
- My Account subscriptions endpoint with cancel/reactivate.
- Basic admin subscriptions list.