beehiiv vs. WooCommerce Subscriptions

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
beehiiv
Score 9.8 out of 10
N/A
beehiiv is an email newsletter content creation and distribution platform from the company of the same name in New York. It boasts a sleek minimalist editor with flexibility, and customization, and a no-code template editor used to build a newsletter. Users can create content exclusively for different subscriber tiers and segments while beehiiv handles user authentication, paywalls, subscription management, and billing.
$49
per month
WooCommerce Subscriptions
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
WooCommerce Subscriptions is a premium extension for WooCommerce which supports recurring payments and subscription-based services and products.N/A
Pricing
beehiivWooCommerce Subscriptions
Editions & Modules
Grow
$49
per month
Scale
$99
per month
Launch
Free
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
beehiivWooCommerce Subscriptions
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
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Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
beehiiv
9.4
1 Ratings
16% above category average
WooCommerce Subscriptions
-
Ratings
WYSIWYG email editor7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Dynamic content10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Landing pages10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
A/B testing10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile optimization9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
List management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
beehiiv
10.0
1 Ratings
26% above category average
WooCommerce Subscriptions
-
Ratings
Dashboards10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Standard reports10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom reports10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-Send Testing
Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of Product A and Product B
beehiiv
9.5
1 Ratings
16% above category average
WooCommerce Subscriptions
-
Ratings
URL Validation9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Email Previews10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
beehiivWooCommerce Subscriptions
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.6
(8 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.4
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
beehiivWooCommerce Subscriptions
Likelihood to Recommend
beehiiv, Inc
Based on the analysis I made of various newsletter providers, beehiiv is the most suited for high-growth ones. If you ever plan or try to grow to 200k users, beehiiv has the best cost/value ratio.
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Automattic
WooCommerce Subscriptions is a solid option for WordPress based eCommerce sites, particularly if you are already using WooCommerce as your eCommerce platform. It works for simple subscriptions, allows for customization in terms of email notifications, pricing, coupons, etc. It obviously would not be a good fit for non-WordPress websites, and it may be too much if all you need are very simple subscription plans.
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Pros
beehiiv, Inc
  • Signup forms
  • Ease of use
  • Available documentation and video tutorials
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Automattic
  • Recurring payments
  • Dunning / retrying of payments if it fails the first time
  • Automatically removing access if payments fail
  • Keeping records of who is on which subscription
  • Users can manage their own subscription
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Cons
beehiiv, Inc
  • Pricing model - too steep
  • Weekly demo sessions or Q&As
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Automattic
  • Better syncing to ActiveCampaign for renewal reminders
  • Make it easier for clients to update their credit cards and have it automatically apply to all subscriptions
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Likelihood to Renew
beehiiv, Inc
No answers on this topic
Automattic
We are very likely to renew our Woo Commerce subscriptions add on. We are dedicated to WordPress and plan to grow our business significantly. Woo Commerce subscriptions enables us to manage and extend our subscription revenue easily. We did not have this a few years ago and we have seen the uplift in revenue from using it!
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Usability
beehiiv, Inc
No answers on this topic
Automattic
I like almost everything about WooCommerce Subscriptions EXCEPT one of the main reasons we started using it has never worked out. When we started this subscription box company, I discovered that it was difficult to track how many of each unique product we needed to order to fulfill subscriptions. In my naivete, I thought it was a simple task . 4 years later, I have recently developed my own custom solution (after learning 5 different programming languages) and I now use the WooCommerce and WooCommerce Subscriptions API to get the data I need from the store en masse. Basically, I offer multiple selections that customers can make as part of their subscriptions. WooCommerce does not offer totals or reports for anything up that is not tracked using a 'variation ID' which you have to manually generate. My products have 80 or so variations per product sometimes and the WooCommerce system was actually a little buggy when I tried setting them all up at once so I gave up. Now I know that without that info, the selections in orders are treated as metadata and handled almost as if they are not relevant to the order
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Support Rating
beehiiv, Inc
No answers on this topic
Automattic
The ticketing system of WooCommerce and WooCommerce Subscriptions is not state of the art. I wish it were an intercom type of support, But I honestly very rarely need support so it's partially a non-issue. Documentation is also very good so it preemptively addresses things that you might typically need support on. One thing I hate about WooCommerce plugins' support MO is that you're always asked to reset to the standard WP theme and deactivate all plugins, which is near impossible to do in a production environment. So their preliminary steps for offering support are highly onerous.
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Implementation Rating
beehiiv, Inc
No answers on this topic
Automattic
It was a smooth and easy implementation for us. Downloaded the add-on and made a few integrations to salesforce and shipstation and we were up and running within a day
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Alternatives Considered
beehiiv, Inc
I found beehiiv the best suited for growth. The pricing model for other providers means your costs go up faster and steeper than with beehiiv.
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Automattic
We liked that WooCommerce Subscriptions was easier to implement, use, and (slightly) modify over Shopify's subscription model. We can implement and grow Wordpress and WooCommerce (with subscriptions) on our micro-sites fairly quickly and without much long term hassle. The UI is pretty easy to navigate, and the code is a bit simpler than Shopify's (from what we reviewed).
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Return on Investment
beehiiv, Inc
  • Ease of use translates into more time focused on core business
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Automattic
  • Increased recurring monthly/yearly revenue
  • Decreased time spent managing billing and subscriptions manually
  • Eliminated manual onboarding time, creating accounts by hand, etc.
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