WooCommerce Subscriptions

Of the options out there for offering subscriptions, this one is one of the best. Setting up a store is relatively straightforward, if a little time-consuming, and you can always expand it over time. Theoretically, you can accomplish a lot of very complicated things with WooCommerce Subscriptions itself and there are many ways to enhance it like plugins or custom code. The times where it falls short though are in handling metadata for orders and subscriptions. It has taken a long time just to understand how the process works and now that I do, I have developed a unique system outside of WooCommerce to handle the data I need. In reality, it would be very simple for WooCommerce to offer this data in reports within the Admin system already. Compiling reports on active subscriptions and tallying products and metadata from orders and subscriptions is simple when you are doing it inside the platform. Overall the system works well and comparing it to other options it still holds up as one of the best at the moment. Why pay selling fees when you can just have your own store?

The support I've received has always been timely and mostly helpful. I have found that they are not always able to offer the perfect solution and may direct you to a developer at times depending on the complexity of your inquiry.

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.

WooCommerce is best suited for organizations that need to charge customers on a recurring basis. It does not work if this is not a tool your business needs. It is a great tool for us as we offer care packages and plans to pay off your device. It really helps bring in more revenue.

I rate WooCommerce Subscriptions a 9 out of 10 because it has helped our business grow and allows new options for our customers. It would get a 10 if we were able to customize it further to our business needs, but it works well right out of the box.

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!

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.

It is simple and easy to use right out of the box. One can always make it more complicated i.e. extracting and reporting on data with python and SQL, but overall for an organization that wants to get subscription products or service up and running this a great tool and easy to use right out the box.