How to setup WooCommerce Subscriptions? (2021 Guide)

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   Nicole August 5, 2020 | 1:11 pm

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   Hey Simon,
   Thanks for the help on getting this started! Would you be able to help remove the “-subscribe and save X%” from the pricing. It’s everywhere, on the homepage, shop, products, recently viewed products… Just makes the site look too busy. I can’t find anything on the internet about removing this. Thanks!
   Nicole

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     Simon Gondeck August 5, 2020 | 4:20 pm

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     Yes for sure! The quickest way to remove the “-subscribe and save X%” from the pricing would be to add this to your CSS file:

     .wcsatt-sub-options {
         display: none;
     }
     

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       Simon Gondeck September 12, 2020 | 8:14 pm

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       You could also add this filter and function to the bottom of your functions.php file:

       add_filter( 'wcsatt_price_html_suffix', 'apfs_remove_suffix', 10, 3 );
       
       function apfs_remove_suffix( $suffix, $product, $args ) {
       	return '';
       }
       

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   Lindsay C. October 9, 2020 | 12:45 am

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   Hi Sam, Thanks for these! you are a super star! Quick question – we are offering a yearly golf membership. the first 6 months of a year are set. then the last 6 months each have different prices. At the moment, the visitors has to chose e.g. june – dec and they get 1 price or they have to choose e.g. feb – dec and they get another price. do you think there is a way where this plugin can automate that e.g. jan – dec costs $100, mar – dec costs $80, nov – dec costs $20 – and that WP can automatically give them the cost based on the current month? hope that makes sense. Thanks for any help 🙂

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     Simon Gondeck October 9, 2020 | 1:16 am

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     Hey Lindsay, anything is possible with the right developer and no perfect way to do this.
     
     What I would recommend is setting up a simple subscription product for $100/year and have it always renew on a specific date of the year (i.e. the 1st of January).
     
     Then, in your WooCommerce Subscriptions settings, under Synchronize renewals enable “Align Subscription Renewal Day”. In addition, set Prorate First Renewal to “Never (do not charge any recurring amount)”.
     
     
     
     Finally, edit your product and update the Sign-up fee price to what price you should charge for that period. For example, since it’s still October you would update the Sign-up fee price to $80. If customer John signed up for a membership in October, 2020 he would pay $80.
     
     
     
     On January 1st, 2021 his membership could automatically renew for $100 because that is the subscription price each year. Another example is for the month of November 2020…you would go back and edit the Sign-up fee price from $80 to $20. If Sam purchased a membership in November or December he would pay $20 on that date and then his subscription could automatically renew for $100 on the 1st of the year. What about the price for January – December? On January 1st, 2021 simply update the Sign-up fee price from $20 back to $100. If Katie signs up on February 5th, 2021 she would pay $100. Her next payment would automatically renew on January 1st, 2022. On March 1st, 2021 update the Sign-up fee from $100 to $80. On November 1st, 2021 go back and update the Sign-up fee from $80 to $20.
     
     Overall, this method requires you to update the Sign-up fee price only a few times a year but assures customers have the same renewal price. You could also look into prorating the $100 fee but that is calculated by number of days left in the year and not the months and could get confusing quickly.

3. 
   Pelle K. October 18, 2020 | 1:25 pm

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   I got this message on checkout “woocomerce subscription No Available Payment Gateways Warning” I have set up woocommerce subscription with paypal standard what is the problem?

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     Simon Gondeck October 18, 2020 | 1:32 pm

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     On your WordPress dashboard, hover over WooCommerce and click ‘Settings’. Next, click the ‘Payments’ tab and then click ‘Manage’ in the PayPal Standard row. Then, check ‘Enable PayPal Standard for Subscriptions’. Finally, scroll to the bottom of the and click ‘Save changes’.

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   Shid Tech December 4, 2020 | 4:59 am

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   I got this error on my woocommerce subscription “Subscriptions Mode: Staging” the woocommerce it has a read label Staging, i would like to know what it means.

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     Simon Gondeck December 4, 2020 | 5:00 am

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     Good question! What this means is that your site is in ‘staging mode’ and will not automatically charge customer’s credit cards or subscription related emails. This was setup so if you copied your live site to a staging site your customer’s credit cards would not get charged twice. See more here: https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/subscriptions-handles-staging-sites/

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   Shid Tech December 4, 2020 | 5:00 am

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   Am using subscription for Videos but what happens when the subscription ends, does the product get automatically removed from the user Account , I would like to know the Logic.

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     Simon Gondeck December 4, 2020 | 5:01 am

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     Does your subscription product expire after a set period of time or is this set to renew every month and never expire unless the customer cancels? If you set the subscription to expire after a specific time period the customer will not have access to the subscription product after the subscription expires.

     For example, you set up your subscription product to be $10/month and expire after 4 months. A customer signs up on December 4th and pays $10 for their 1st payment. Their next order date is January 4th for $10, February 4th for $10, and March 4th for $10. the customer’s subscription will automatically update from Active to Expired on April 3rd/4th. The customer would no longer have access as their subscription is Expired now. Note: are you using another plugin to manage the customer’s access besides subscriptions?

     Another situation is if you set the subscription product to be $10/month and never expire. A customer signs up on December 4th and pays $10 for their 1st payment. Their subscription will keep renewing each month for $10 and always be Active unless the customer cancels their subscription. If the customer decides to cancel June 15th of next year, their subscription status will update from Active to Pending Cancellation until July 4th and they will still have access since they paid $10 for that month already. On July 4th, their subscription status will update from Pending Cancellation to Cancelled and thus no longer have access.