Recurring subscriptions add-on allows clients to subscribe to products and receive regular product payment bills. Subscription business model provides valuable resource: time. Client saves it on checking out the same order, and a store gets a loyal customer, which helps planning product stock.
Subscription business model becomes more and more popular and is being used to sell various products: books, cosmetics ("beauty boxes"), clothes, food, products for pets, videogames and lots of other things.
What advantages does subscription to product provide in comparison to traditional sales?
Business Advantages:
Business becomes more predictable, as payment is being received regularly.
Ability to optimize product stock and plan business growth.
After selling a product subscription, there is no need to compete for next sales. A store is able to concentrate on service quality and attract new customers.
Lower client losses. A client becomes regular and loyal by developing a habit of subscription usage. That means lower chances of stopping using it.
Customer Advantages:
Saves time on routine purchases.
Receives necessary service or product on a lower price.
Ability to plan budget.
Add-on Features:
Ability to subscribe to product.
Ability to restrict regular purchase for product and leave only product subscription.
Configurable subscription frequency and period with presets.
Configurable ability to select subscription start date.
Ability to set subscription payment period.
Ability to automatically continue subscription after period ends.
Ability to display subscription terms at the product page.
Separate active subscriptions page with ability to search and sort by product, order ID, client name, email, subscription status.
Special promotion for products sold via subscription.
Ability to restrict discounts on first subscription.
Unpaid subscription notification for clients.
CRON commands for auto forming bills and sending notifications to clients.
We have updated our Recurring subscriptions add-on to version 1.2 from 11 February 2021.
What is new:
[*] - The lifetime of the payment link is now tied to the setting Number of days to pay for the order.
[!] - The invoices for recurring payment for downloadable products were not created if there was no shipping method in the parent order. Fixed.
[!] - The customer's name could be missing in the order. Fixed.
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is there anyway make it work with the vendor plans? let say paypal account and integrate recurring subscription for vendors to pay for the vendor plan membership. so marketplace owner’s can more focus on other things, managing companies will be much easier and it’s good for everyone. isn’t? if you check forums, you will see many many people asks for this. this is one of cs-cart’s lack.
This looks like a development of a separate add-on. If you need this functionality, especially fast, please copy your request on sales@cart-power.com and we will quote it for you. Otherwise, we will include those ideas in future add-on release plan.
