Description

Subnotice checks your store against three subscription-renewal compliance regimes, auto-detected from your WooCommerce store country (override any time):

UK — the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (DMCCA) subscription contracts regime: clear pre-contract information, renewal reminder notices, easy cancellation, cooling-off rights. Enforcement expected from Spring 2027.
US — state-level Automatic Renewal Laws (e.g. California, New York, Connecticut’s annual-reminder rule). Not a federal FTC compliance check — there is no single federal auto-renewal statute currently in force.
EU — the withdrawal-button requirement under Directive 2023/2673, in force EU-wide since 19 June 2026. This check is structural (declared yes/no/unsure), since a withdrawal button is a UI mechanism, not something policy text can confirm.

What this plugin does (v1)

Auto-detects your jurisdiction from your WooCommerce store country, or lets you pick manually
UK/US: auto-detects your WordPress Privacy Policy page and WooCommerce Terms & Conditions page (or accepts pasted text) and scores the wording
EU: asks two structural questions (withdrawal button present? two-step confirmation?) since there’s no policy text to parse
Shows fix notes for anything pending

What this plugin does not do

Does not read your live checkout or billing flow — policy text/declared setup only
Not legal advice — informational scoring only
Does not send reminder emails or store any subscription/customer data — this plugin is a one-time/on-demand policy-text scan only

Privacy Policy

When you click “Check my compliance”, the policy text you paste (or the auto-detected page content) is sent to Subnotice’s hosted scoring API at subnotice.com over HTTPS, for scoring only. No data is stored by Subnotice — each scan is stateless.

Full privacy policy: https://www.subnotice.com/privacy

This plugin stores no personal data locally and creates no WordPress options.

Installation

Upload the plugin files to /wp-content/plugins/subnotice-woo, or install through the WordPress plugins screen.
Activate the plugin.
Go to the “Subnotice” menu in wp-admin to run a check.

FAQ

Does this require WooCommerce?: No — it works with just a WordPress Privacy Policy page. WooCommerce Terms & Conditions auto-detection is a bonus when WooCommerce is active.
How does it pick my jurisdiction?: It reads your WooCommerce store’s base country (Settings General) and maps it to UK, US, or EU automatically. You can override the detected jurisdiction any time from the checker page — useful if you sell into a jurisdiction different from where your store is registered.
When does the DMCCA subscription regime take effect?: Spring 2027 (subject to secondary legislation still pending UK government guidance). This only applies to the UK jurisdiction — US state Automatic Renewal Laws and the EU withdrawal-button requirement are already in force.

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Contributors & Developers

“Subnotice — Subscription Compliance Checker (UK/US/EU)” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

0.3.3

Fixed WordPress.org manual review findings (review ID P0TDX336368HGN): removed the reminder-emails (Compliance Complete plan) code from this build entirely — it’s not run/downloadable from WordPress.org, only through the separate Freemius-licensed distribution. Previously this code shipped here too, just permanently disabled; the reviewer flagged that as dormant/hard-disabled functionality.
Renamed the Freemius bootstrap helper (sw_fs() subnotice_woo_fs(), and related globals/hooks) to use a WordPress.org-compliant 4+ character prefix.

0.3.2

Added WordPress core “Erase Personal Data” privacy tool support (wp_privacy_personal_data_erasers): erasing a customer now also removes their reminder records from the backend, not just via full-site uninstall.
Refactored uninstall cleanup into a shared function (includes/uninstall-cleanup.php) so it can run from either uninstall.php (WP.org build) or a Freemius after_uninstall hook (Freemius-deployed build, which cannot ship an uninstall.php file).
Not yet uploaded to WordPress.org — v0.3.1 review still pending as of this release.

0.3.1

Fixed a WordPress.org review finding (Guideline 5, Trialware): removed the sw_fs()->is_paying() license check that gated the reminder-emails feature. That feature is disabled because it isn’t finished yet (see FAQ), not because of payment — any future monetization enforcement will happen server-side, not as a local license check in this plugin.
Fixed a WordPress.org review finding: replaced an inline <script> tag with wp_enqueue_script()/wp_localize_script() (assets/js/jurisdiction-toggle.js).
Corrected Contributors to match the actual WordPress.org submitting account.

0.3.0

Added the scaffolding for a paid “Compliance Complete” tier: automated pre-renewal reminder emails (WooCommerce Subscriptions) plus a downloadable audit trail. Dormant — not available for purchase yet, no charge, no data sent unless/until released.
Added a “Reminder Emails” section to the admin page showing paid-tier status.

0.2.1

Fixed text domain mismatch across all translation strings (was “subnotice-woo”, now matches the WordPress.org-assigned slug “subnotice-subscription-compliance-checker-ukuseu”).
Fixed “Tested up to” header (was 9.4, a WordPress version that doesn’t exist — corrected to the actual current WordPress core version).
Shortened the readme short description to fit the 150-character limit.
Removed the “Domain Path” plugin header (pointed to a non-existent languages/ folder — no translations exist yet).

0.2.0

Added US (state Automatic Renewal Law) and EU (withdrawal-button, Directive 2023/2673) jurisdictions alongside UK DMCCA — auto-detected from WooCommerce store country, with manual override.
EU jurisdiction uses structural declared-flag questions instead of a policy-text scan.

0.1.0

Initial release: policy-text audit against DMCCA checks (audit-parity with the Subnotice Shopify app).