To create a free subscription to WooCommerce, first sign up for a free account on the official website. Then, navigate to the ‘My Account’ page and click on the ‘Create a Subscription’ button.
Fill out the required information and select the free subscription plan. Finally, click on the ‘Subscribe’ button and your subscription will be created!
Assuming you have a WooCommerce store set up (if not, check out this handy guide), setting up a subscription product is easy.
- From your WordPress dashboard, go to WooCommerce > Products. Then select Add Product
- Give your product a name and choose whether it’s a physical or virtual product.
If you want to offer a subscription, tick the Enable this setting to allow customers to subscribe to this product
- Subscription period: Select how often subscribers will receive the product — weekly, monthly etc. You can also specify whether they’ll be charged per period or in advance.
- Free trial period: If you want to offer a free trial, enter the number of days here. For example, if someone signs up for a monthly subscription with a 14-day free trial, they’ll have 14 days before their first payment is taken.
- Sign-up fee: This is an optional one-time fee charged when someone first subscribes.
- Regular price: Set the price you want subscribers to pay per period.
- Sale price: If you want to offer a discount for signing up, enter that price here.
- Grant access to downloadable products after purchase?
: If you have digital products on your site that you only want people with an active subscription to have access too, then tick this box.
- Stock management at product level?
: This option appears if you are selling physical products with subscriptions and are using WooCommerce inventory management.
→ If yes: Leave this option checked so that each variation of the product has its own inventory.
→ If no: Tick this box if you don’t want WooCommerce to track inventory for each variation of your product individually; instead it will track inventory for all variations as one stock.
For more information on managing stock in WooCommerce see here.
- Shipped via
: This option appears if you are selling physical products with subscriptions.
– Choose how you will ship this product from the dropdown menu.
– The shipping methods available will depend on the ones you have set up in WooCommerce.
– For more information on configuring shipping settings in WooCommerce see here.
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< b > 11 . Save changes < br /> Once you’ve finished configuring all the options for your subscription product , click on the blue ‘Save changes’ button at the bottom of the page . Your subscription product is now ready for customers to purchase !
So there you have it ! A quick and easy way to set up a subscription product in WooCommerce . As always , if you have any questions or comments , please leave them below !
