About this plugin
This plugin adds a subscription engine for WooCommerce products with the following features:
- Subscriptions and Renewals: When a customer purchases a subscription product, a record is created under Subscriptions with start date, expiry date, status (active / expired), customer details, and original order.
- Subscription Pricing Plans: Define one or more billing plans for a product, each with its own interval (e.g. every 1, 2, etc.), period (day, week, month, year), and custom price.
- Frontend Selector Layout: Choose between displaying plans as a dropdown menu or radio buttons on the single product page.
- My Account Subscriptions: Customers can view, manage, and manually renew their subscriptions from the “Subscriptions” page in My Account.
- Flexible Expiry Reminders: Set a custom list of comma-separated days before expiration to send reminder emails (e.g., 30, 10, 3).
- Subscription Notes: Tracks change logs (such as status changes and expiry date modifications) and allows custom notes to be saved for each subscription.
- WooCommerce Emails: Integrates template-based customer emails for automated expiry reminders and expired alerts, customizable in WooCommerce settings.
- Manual Renewal: Admin can trigger subscription renewal directly from the dashboard.
Important: this is a free lightweight subscription plugin for WooCommerce. It does not process automatic recurring payments or payment retries. Subscriber must manually renew / pay subscription on expiration.
Shortcodes
Restrict Content to Subscribers
[/wpgps_content]
Displays the enclosed content only to logged-in users who have an active subscription for the specified product ID(s).
Attributes:
g. product_id="123,456" ).
* require_all: Set to true to require active subscriptions to all listed products, or false if having a subscription to any one of them is sufficient (default: false ).
* status: Subscription status to check (default: active ).
Developer API
Other plugins and themes can check subscription statuses using the following helper functions:
Check if a user has an active subscription
wpgps_has_active_subscription( $user_id, $product_id )
Returns true if the user has an active subscription for the specified product, otherwise false.
Retrieve user subscription IDs
wpgps_get_user_subscriptions( $user_id, $status )
Returns an array of subscription post IDs for the user, filtered by status (defaults to 'active' ). Pass '' to retrieve all subscriptions regardless of status.
Manual Subscription Creation
To manually create a new subscription for a customer:
- Navigate to WooCommerce > Orders and click Add order.
- Select the customer you want to assign the subscription to.
- Click Add item(s) and then click Add product(s). Search and add a subscription-enabled product.
- (Optional) Click the Edit icon (pencil) next to the added product item. Under Subscription Settings, select a custom Interval and Period if needed (leave them empty to use the default product settings). Save the item.
- Set the order status to Processing or Completed and save/update the order.
- The plugin will automatically generate a new active subscription under Subscriptions linked to the customer and order.