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Free Plugin by YITHEMES v4.21.0

YITH WooCommerce Subscription

It allows you to manage recurring payments for product subscription that grant you constant periodical income

YITH WooCommerce Subscription

The facts

Rating
3★ from 46
Active installs
6k+
Price
Free
Last updated
28 Aug 2026
Added
Nov 2015
Requires WP
6.9
Tested up to
WP 7.1
Requires PHP
8.0
Downloads
629,079

Our analysis

AI-assisted

YITH WooCommerce Subscription is a WordPress plugin designed for WooCommerce shops, enabling the sale of products or services on a subscription basis. It allows you to create and manage recurring payments, helping to build customer loyalty by offering various subscription plans. This plugin is suitable for e-commerce sites that wish to implement a subscription model for their products or services.

The plugin supports simple, virtual, and downloadable products, with options for different recurring payment types and subscription variations. Users can manage their subscriptions through their account page, and payment processing is facilitated through PayPal. This tool is ideal for businesses looking to adopt a subscription-based revenue model across various industries, including consulting, gyms, and digital services.

Best for: E-commerce sites looking to implement subscription services for their products.

What it does well

  • Create subscription plans for various product types
  • Choose from multiple recurring payment intervals
  • Users can manage subscriptions via 'My Account' page
  • Integration with WooCommerce PayPal Payments
  • Customisable button labels for cart and checkout

Where it falls short

  • Limited features compared to the premium version
  • Requires specific PHP version and WordPress compatibility

Verdict

YITH WooCommerce Subscription provides a basic framework for managing subscriptions in WooCommerce, making it a practical choice for businesses exploring this sales model. However, users may need to consider the premium version for more advanced features.

From the developer

YITHEMES's own description of YITH WooCommerce Subscription, lightly tidied.

YITH WooCommerce Subscription is the complete solution to sell products or services with a subscription plan in your e-commerce, manage recurring payments and loyalize your customers.

Selling products on a subscription basis lets you get regular payments and monitor your income growth month by month.

This has become the most popular business model in recent years: users pay for a subscription – typically weekly, monthly, or annually – to use software, to access training courses, to read a magazine, to get unlimited access to an archive of useful resources (like the audio file library offered by Amazon Audible or sites with photos stocks) or to benefit from a hosting service. But this applies also to gyms, video games, libraries, consulting or coaching services, legal advisory, etc… It’s a winning business model that suits most of the products or services available for sale.

With this plugin you can easily create subscription products and get recurring payments in your WooCommerce shops.

YITH WooCommerce Subscription Features

Free version

  • Create a subscription plan for simple, virtual or downloadable products
  • Choose the recurring payment type (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, etc.)
  • Set an optional end time for the subscription
  • Enable variations as subscription based (to set different subscriptions plans and pricing using variations)
  • User subscriptions can be charged automatically only when selecting PayPal payment method
  • Users can find the subscription information on “My Account” page
  • Customize the “Add to Cart” button label
  • Customize the “Place order” button label at checkout
  • NEW: Integration with WooCommerce PayPal Payments to let your customers easily pay through PayPal

See it in action here:

Need more? check the premium version!

  • Offer a trial period to users before subscribing to a plan
  • Ask for a sign-up fee when purchasing a subscription plan
  • Synchronize all subscription payments to a specific day of the week, month or year (Example: all payments will be taken the 1st of each month) New
  • Cancel a subscription automatically if the associated order is canceled
  • Suspend a subscription automatically in case the periodical payment fails
  • After three failed payment attempts with Stripe or PayPal, the subscription is automatically set to “Canceled”
  • Postpone the automatic status switch (for “active”, “overdue” and “suspended” status) by a specific number of hours
  • Let users force the payment after the first attempt is failed (through a “Renew Now” button)
  • Users can pause a subscription for a certain number of times (decided by the administrator) and resume it later: the expiration date will update accordingly
  • Allow users access their subscription contents even after the expiring date and while you’re waiting for their payment
  • Suspend access to content on the expiry date, without deleting the subscription
  • Allow users to resubscribe a plan from “My Account” page and being granted the same conditions of the expired or canceled plan, without having to pay the sign-up fee once again or to benefit of the trial period once again
  • Users can upgrade or downgrade a subscription plan (configurable in variable products only)
  • Show users the total duration and the total amount of a subscription
  • Limit users to only one subscription per product
  • Choose if a user can add only one or more subscription products to cart New
  • Edit and load billing and shipping address in the subscription details
  • Let users edit the address for only one or for all subscriptions right from My Account page
  • Create subscriptions manually from the backend
  • Recap the subscription information on a page (Start and expiration dates, details of the subscribed product, billing and shipping information, orders linked to the subscription)
  • Edit subscription details like renewal date, expiry date, amount, billing cycle if used (not available with PayPal standard)
  • Dashboard with sale reports (net sales, renewals, trials, MRR, ARR, etc.)
  • Export all your subscriptions to a CSV file
  • Create coupons for the sign-up fee or for the recurring fee (you can now specify the number of recurring payments to which the coupon will apply)
  • Receive automatic emails on the following conditions: a subscription plan is going to expire/has been canceled/has been paused/has been resumed
  • Receive automatic emails when a payment has been made
  • Automatically enable the staging mode when you clone the site to prevent double charges
  • Choose to show or not custom messages in the product page about the Signup Fee, the Trial and the recurring payment scheduling
  • Use the advanced Gutenberg block to show subscription plans with a modern columns design
  • Organize and plan your subscription-based product deliveries and decide if you want to synchronize all the deliveries on a specific day (every Monday, every 1st of the month etc.)
  • Print a PDF list of shipping labels with all the addresses of subscription-based deliveries
  • Make users pay shipping fees only once in the subscription period with one-time shipping
  • NEW: The “Subscription Box” module lets your customers sign up for a box and customize it by choosing the quantity and types of products they want to include

See it in action here:

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