How to setup a simple subscription product in WooCommerce?

In this guide, I show you all the steps involved in setting up a simple subscription product in WooCommerce.

Setting up a Subscription make look complicated at first, but once you get through my tutorials, it is a great way to make recurring sales to your existing customers.

With that said, there are two primary reasons to use WooCommerce Subscriptions: Recurring billing for Digital Products (Memberships, Hosting, Monthly Software fee, etc.), and Create Recurring orders for physical products (i.e. subscribe to Dollar Shave Club to receive a razor every month).

The result is that you will be able to automatically have new orders every month from existing customers, which will only increase your recurring revenue and cash flow.

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[DaniLong]

Thanks for making this video - super simple, right to the point

[Rk-xoqk]

Nice video. But i don't see subscription option on my site. How can i get that option?

[oliviamarocco]

Hi there, I wonder if you can help me. I have a subscription-based magazine - available both in print and digital. At the moment the magazine is a monthly subscription but I need to change this to a bi-monthly. What is the best way to do this?
I currently have 2 subscription products - one for the print and one for the digital - both set up for monthly recurring billing.
I need to be able to change each subscriber's product as soon as they have paid their May payment....so that their next payment will be due in July.
Should I create 2 new products, set with a recurring billing of every two manually delete the 'old product' and add the' new one' from each subscriber's profile after their May payment is received?
Or is there an easier way to do this? 🤔
Thanks for any advice.

[adryac]

Thanks for this fantastic video!. Do you know if there's any possibility to have a 1 month subscription, 3 months subscription and 6 months subscription?.
Not an every month subscription. Thank you very much!

[ttjackson]

is there a way to let subscribers pick if they want to auto renew? or get them to pick how many months? thank you

[annamarie.u]

Do you know if you can alter the variable product involved in subscription products eg. a grocery box - can customers change what comes in the grocery box without cancelling the subscription?

[apadia]

Its working for serial key subscription software product?

[TheThinFrame]

is it possible to automate the payments? so I get automatically paid instead of sending an invoice each month? Thanks

[Jaxster]

I have a Simple Product with a Simple Subscription. After the customer makes the purchase the sale goes to ShipStation for fulfillment. My problem is that there is nothing that differentiates the subscription from the one time purchase as they share the same SKU and product title. Is there a way to add "Subscription" to the sku or product title? Or is there a way to differentiate the one time product purchase from the subscription purchase? Thanks!

[ShanaLeighFit]

What if "simple subscription" doesn't show up in my drop down menu? What woocommerce plugin do I need?

[high-level_Adict]

I have subscription setup and want the user to be able to select a new product every month for their subscription if perfume

[countrygoodsusa]

#sgwebpartners found your video because I do have a soap company that I am setting up on a subscription. I am wondering the best way to have a variable subscription (i.e. 1 bar per month, 2 bars per month, etc) and have different scents available? I was looking at setting up the every product subscription but then it does not allow for the different scents.