Want to sell different subscription products in the same transaction? Or change the expiration date for an existing subscription? Or perhaps you want customers to be able to view the full details of their subscription, including taxes, shipping method and shipping address?
You can now do all of this, and much more, with the release of WooCommerce Subscriptions 2.0!
Subscriptions 2.0 reinvents one of our most popular extensions to take into account three years of feedback from store owners. As well as introducing new features, version 2.0 improves a number of existing features and changes the internals, making it easier to customise the extension and scale it to meet the needs of your growing customer base.
Here’s a look at some of the best new additions in Subscriptions 2.0.
Multiple subscriptions
Prior to version 2.0, the customer needed to repeat the entire checkout process to subscribe to different products. No more!
Your customers can now purchase any number of different subscription products in the same transaction.
Better yet, Subscriptions intelligently groups products based on their billing schedule. This reduces payment gateway fees by processing the sign-up and renewal of multiple products in one transaction. It also streamlines fulfillment by creating a single renewal order instead of multiple orders for what might be a single shipment.
Learn all about the way this feature works in the new Guide to Multiple Subscriptions.
Now that Subscriptions has a specially designed interface for modifying a subscription, it also provides you with more power over a subscription’s details.
You can now add and modify all of a subscription’s details, including fields that previously could not be changed or added, including:
- trial end dates
- expiration dates
- payment methods
- shipping methods
- line items
Learn more about the new WooCommerce > Edit Subscription interface in the Guide to Add or Edit a Subscription.
New page for customers to view subscription information
Subscriptions 2.0 also makes it easier for your customers to view and manage their own subscriptions.
Instead of having to contact you, the store owner, to ask about details, like the shipping address for their next order, they can now view that information on a special page under their My Account section.
Similar to WooCommerce’s View Order page, the new View Subscription page comprehensively displays the information about a subscription. Customers will see their billing schedule, payment method, address(es), products, fees, taxes, shipping costs, and other associated line items.
Learn more about the new View Subscription page.
