The 5 Best WooCommerce Plugins for Recurring Orders

Setting up recurring orders (or subscriptions) on your WooCommerce store is a great way to generate guaranteed recurring revenue. In fact, if your eCommerce store sells stuff that users need to order on a repeat basis — anything from supplies and meals to curated boxes — enabling recurring scheduled orders on your store is a […]

Performance ⚡ Upgrades: February 2024

We're happy to report that over this month, Merchants are seeing over a 100% (more than double) increase in the speed of accessing Scheduled Order data in their Shopify and WooCommerce admins and that Customers are also able to view and manage their Autoship and Subscribe & Save Orders twice as fast. In this post, we'll highlight the top speed improvements for you and your subscribers, and what's next!

December 2023 Release Notes

In this month's release notes, we're throwing a holiday retention party ? for you and all of the new subscribers you acquired this season! Check out our new Churn Analysis Reports, Integration with Subscriber Retention Platform: Upzelo, and more automations to build new subscription flows and save time.

How to Set up WooCommerce Subscription Products (with WooCommerce Subscriptions)

WooCommerce Subscriptions is a WooCommerce plugin that allows you to add subscriptions to your WooCommerce store. It’s important to note that the WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin is best suited for digital subscriptions. If you’re selling physical goods, like pet food or coffee, the WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin has some important limitations. This is why you often need […]

What Is a Monthly Recurring Charge? Defining Recurring Billing and Its Advantages for Your Business

Wondering what the monthly recurring charge metric is all about? In this primer, we’ll define what monthly recurring charge is, its different types, and how businesses (more so, eCommerce businesses) can benefit from implementing recurring payment models. Here goes.  What is a monthly recurring charge? A definition. A monthly recurring charge (MRC) is the amount […]

Setting up your eCommerce Subscription service: Complete 2023 guide

eCommerce subscription — or selling (physical) eCommerce products as subscriptions — is a great way to convert one-time or ad hoc customers into lifetime subscribers. In fact, pivoting to the subscription model is one of the best growth hacks for eCommerce stores looking to grow their business and build long-term customer relationships, according to McKinsey. […]

The Top 10 Types of Product Subscriptions in 2023 and How to Set Yours Up

Did you know that 31% of consumers have at least one retail subscription service? Also, the subscription cancel culture is visibly fading — subscribers intend to keep their subscriptions. Apply this to your eCommerce business, and you’ll see that you can convert every third customer that you sell to into a “subscriber.” On average, a […]

How To Set Up PayPal For Subscriptions On WooCommerce: Complete Guide

PayPal is the go-to payment gateway for online shoppers. Did you know that customers are about 54% more willing to buy from you if you accept PayPal? In the same research, about 59% of PayPal users reported abandoning transactions as the etailer didn’t support PayPal as a checkout option. Note also that PayPal is actively […]

The 5 Best Alternatives to WooCommerce Subscriptions for Your Ecommerce Website

WooCommerce doesn’t support subscriptions by default. That’s why if you want to sell subscriptions on your WooCommerce store, you need a WooCommerce subscription plugin.  WooCommerce Subscriptions is WooCommerce’s official subscription plugin to bring subscription management to the platform. While WooCommerce Subscriptions is a solid plugin, it doesn’t bring end-to-end subscription management to WooCommerce, as users […]

Billing Agreements for PayPal and WooCommerce Autoship

One of the questions I am asked by retailers who want to know why subscription integrations can’t handle the features that our Autoship Cloud does is how the billing process is different.  After all, aren’t subscription payments automatically recurring?  Isn’t that what an Autoship Cloud does is?