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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cleverbridge

    Score6.6 out of 10
    N/ACleverbridge is an enterprise eCommerce solution with subscription management capability to drive growth.N/A

    WooCommerce Subscriptions

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AWooCommerce Subscriptions is a premium extension for WooCommerce which supports recurring payments and subscription-based services and products.N/A
    Pricing
    CleverbridgeWooCommerce Subscriptions
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CleverbridgeWooCommerce Subscriptions
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    CleverbridgeWooCommerce Subscriptions
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    Cleverbridge
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    Automattic
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    9 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    9 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
    Features
    CleverbridgeWooCommerce Subscriptions
    Online Storefront
    Comparison of Online Storefront features of Cleverbridge and WooCommerce Subscriptions
    Feature
    Cleverbridge
    7.9
    2 Ratings
    1% above category average
    WooCommerce Subscriptions
    -
    Ratings
    Product catalog & listings8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Product management8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk product upload6.32 Ratings00 Ratings
    Branding6.32 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile storefront8.32 Ratings00 Ratings
    Product variations9.42 Ratings00 Ratings
    Website integration8.32 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visual customization8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    CMS8.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Shopping Cart
    Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Cleverbridge and WooCommerce Subscriptions
    Feature
    Cleverbridge
    8.7
    2 Ratings
    13% above category average
    WooCommerce Subscriptions
    -
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    Abandoned cart recovery8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Checkout user experience9.42 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Payment System
    Comparison of Online Payment System features of Cleverbridge and WooCommerce Subscriptions
    Feature
    Cleverbridge
    9.7
    2 Ratings
    15% above category average
    WooCommerce Subscriptions
    -
    Ratings
    eCommerce security9.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    eCommerce Marketing
    Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Cleverbridge and WooCommerce Subscriptions
    Feature
    Cleverbridge
    8.2
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    WooCommerce Subscriptions
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    Promotions & discounts8.32 Ratings00 Ratings
    Personalized recommendations7.32 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    eCommerce Business Management
    Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Cleverbridge and WooCommerce Subscriptions
    Feature
    Cleverbridge
    8.8
    2 Ratings
    9% above category average
    WooCommerce Subscriptions
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-site management8.32 Ratings00 Ratings
    Order processing10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Inventory management9.42 Ratings00 Ratings
    Shipping9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom functionality7.32 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CleverbridgeWooCommerce Subscriptions
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.6
    (2 ratings)
    8.9
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.1
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CleverbridgeWooCommerce Subscriptions
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cleverbridge
    Cleverbridge is well-suited for big companies that have a client base and want to start online. If you have a wide range of products, and you sell worldwide--where different languages and different settings are needed for each region--then Cleverbridge is good solution. If you just want to start selling with limited stock and with couple of product types only in one region, then it's not good idea to begin with Cleverbridge.
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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
    Cleverbridge
    • Excellent partnet
    • Terrific at subscription software
    • Excellent security and uptime
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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
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Cleverbridge
    • Because of the many different settings, it becomes hard sometimes to set everything up
    • The slow system can take up to 10 seconds to save something
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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
    Cleverbridge
    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
    Cleverbridge
    Usability is native, but the system is complex. It has a knowledge base, but who reads that, right? So without explanation, sometimes it's hard to understand how to move and set things. But as soon as you get it, it's not a problem anymore. There are 2 major things, which keeps me from giving a higher score: 1 - Delay in time when making changes; can take up to 2 sec when opening a product, and 10 secs when saving a product update. When you do several updates, it is time consuming; 2 - A lot of settings, which also in the end becomes time consuming.
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    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
    Cleverbridge
    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
    Cleverbridge
    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
    Cleverbridge
    DR Waco e screwed up the company when we worked with them - they didn’t like customers - I know that sounds odd but it was true and their software was dreadful
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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
    Cleverbridge
    • We couldn’t have done this on our own
    • They provided cost-effective eCommerce for us
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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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