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 […]
Merchant Love 💙 How Nimbus Dental Launched B2B Autoship with Shopify
In this case study, we take a look at important requirements for B2B sellers, and how those needs were met in Nimbus Dental's case by integrating their B2B Shopify Store directly with Autoship Cloud's hosted service, QPilot
Merchant Love 💜 How the “Feel Good Club” Attracts New Subscribers and Rewards Loyalty
Mission Farms is a wellness brand that has created a subscription program that gains new subscribers and increases retention by rewarding loyal subscribers automatically with the "Feel Good Club".
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!
Merchant Love 💜 MAPs Edition: Automations That Grow Subscriber Value and Save Time
This Valentine's Day, we're inspired to show our love for our Merchants, the awesome products that their customers love, and their innovative campaigns that increase Subscriber Retention and Convert New Subscribers using our new automation service: MAPs.
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 […]
MAPs: New Automations for ‘Stale’ Subscribers & Autoship Orders
As we prepare to bring MAPs out of Beta and make them available to all merchants using Autoship Cloud, the QPilot team is excited to announce 2 highly requested no-code automations that help merchants manage “stale” Scheduled Orders that have been in a Paused or Failed status for many days.
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 […]
What Is a Subscription Product? Guide to Setting One Up on Your eCommerce Website (2023)
By adding subscription products to your online store, you get a chance to convert your ad hoc or one-time shoppers into lifetime subscribers. You’d be surprised to know that pivoting to the subscription model is one of the top three ways McKinsey suggests to eCommerce businesses looking to drive long-term relationships. Subscriptions tie directly to […]
Setting up Subscriptions on WooCommerce with Stripe Payments: Step by Step Guide (2023)
Here's how you can accept recurring payments on your WooCommerce store and sell subscriptions with Stripe.
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 […]
How To Set Up A Variable Subscription Product In WooCommerce
Here's a step-by-step tutorial on setting up WooCommerce variable subscription products (with Autoship Cloud).
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 […]
Payment Gateways for Selling Subscriptions on a WooCommerce Store
Here are the best WooCommerce Subscriptions payment gateways to accept subscription payments on your WooCommerce store.
Can I Sell Subscription Boxes on WooCommerce?
Here's how to create a WooCommerce subscription box site (and recommendations for the best WooCommerce subscription box plugins).
How to Set up WooCommerce Product Subscriptions on Your Store (with the 3 Best Plugins)
In an independent survey, about 35% of (U.S.) customers said they subscribed to Amazon’s ‘Subscribe & Save’ scheme. And another 36% said that they would consider doing so. Also, almost all of Amazon’s ‘Subscribe & Save’ customers plan on continuing their subscriptions. They seem to enjoy not having to visit the store repeatedly to complete […]
5 Best WooCommerce Subscriptions Plugins for 2023
Looking to set up a WooCommerce subscription product on your store? Here are five of the best plugins that bring subscriptions to WooCommerce.
How to Accept Recurring Payments in WooCommerce
Here's how to accept WooCommerce recurring payments on your store and move to a subscription-based model to sell physical goods/supplies.
What are scheduled orders? And how to let your customers schedule orders on your WordPress website.
Order scheduling — or letting customers schedule one-time or repeat orders to be delivered on a specific date or time or on a set day each week, month, or over a customized regular cadence — is an excellent way for businesses to offer customers convenient delivery experiences. Moreover, when scheduled orders are recurring (and they […]
The 5 Best Plugins to Enable WooCommerce Recurring Orders on Your Store
Looking to automate your WooCommerce recurring orders? Here are five of the best subscription plugins to put your repeat orders on autopilot.
The Best Recurring Payment Systems for 2023
Looking for the best recurring payment system to automate your business's repeat payments? We're rounding up five of the top options in this list.
How Do Recurring Orders Work In WooCommerce?
Learn how a WooCommerce recurring order works and how you can start selling Amazon-like "Subscribe and Save" plans on your WooCommerce store.
How to Display Autoship Schedule Options on Product Pages as Radio Buttons
Learn how to customize the Autoshop Schedule Options displayed on the Product pages in order to maximize conversions, create cohesion, and make your shop as user friendly and well designed as possible!
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?