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Chala<\/strong> (pronounced CHOH-la, Bengali for \"to keep going\") turns any WooCommerce product into one that bills on a schedule, using the payment gateway you already have configured.<\/p>\n\n Sell a product that bills weekly, monthly or yearly, and let Chala handle the rest: taking the renewal payment on time, retrying it when the card declines, emailing the customer, and giving them a place to pause or cancel without opening a support ticket.<\/p>\n\n Every amount is stored as an integer in the currency's smallest unit, so JPY (no decimals) and KWD (three) are as correct as USD. Every webhook is de-duplicated before it is acted on, because payment providers deliver the same event more than once. Every subscription order is a real WooCommerce order under High-Performance Order Storage.<\/p>\n\n Built by the team behind Nishchoy Reviews<\/a> and Uttor AEO<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n Chala Pro<\/a> is a separate plugin that adds five more gateways (Authorize.Net, plus Razorpay, Mollie, Paystack and Square as experimental \u2014 see the FAQ), multiple plans per product, prorated upgrades and downgrades, configurable dunning retry ladders, subscriber-only coupons, cohort retention analytics, cancellation save flows, and priority support. Everything described above is in this plugin and stays that way.<\/p>\n\n Chala integrates with our other plugins when they are installed. Nishchoy Reviews can request a review from long-term subscribers. Uttor AEO adds recurring price information to your subscription products' schema markup. Neither is required.<\/p>\n\n If you're on the official plugin, migrate in three steps:<\/p>\n\n Full guide at chala.bytloop.com\/migration<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n Chala takes money-handling seriously. Payment method tokens are encrypted at rest. Webhook receivers verify cryptographic signatures. Every renewal is idempotent \u2014 replayed webhooks never cause double-charges. Every state change is audit-logged for reconstruction. Full details at chala.bytloop.com\/security<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n Chala never touches raw card data. Card entry happens in the payment gateway's own iframes or redirects, keeping your PCI compliance scope at SAQ A.<\/p>\n\n Chala talks to a payment provider only when you have configured that provider and only to move money you asked it to move. It has no analytics, no telemetry, and no phone-home of any kind. Nothing is sent anywhere if you use manual renewal.<\/p>\n\n Used when you enable the Stripe gateway, to charge subscription renewals and to store a reusable payment method.<\/p>\n\n Chala sends to Stripe also sends webhooks back to your site to report payment outcomes.<\/p>\n\n This service is provided by Stripe: terms of service<\/a>, privacy policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n Used when you enable the PayPal gateway, to charge subscription renewals against a billing agreement the customer approved at checkout.<\/p>\n\n Chala sends to PayPal also sends webhooks back to your site to report payment outcomes.<\/p>\n\n This service is provided by PayPal: terms of service<\/a>, privacy policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n Chala ships no minified, obfuscated or compiled code that is not accompanied by its source.<\/p>\n\n The admin and front-end scripts under The one bundled script is That rebuilds Yes. Unlimited subscriptions, unlimited products, trials, sign-up fees, custom billing intervals, the full customer portal, the admin tools and the MRR dashboard. Nothing here is time-limited or disabled until you pay. Pro is a separate plugin that adds more on top.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. Chala includes a one-click importer with dry-run mode. Test on staging first. Full migration guide at chala.bytloop.com\/migration<\/a>.<\/p><\/dd>\n Chala retries on a fixed schedule up to a limit you set, emails the customer each time, and puts the subscription on hold when the retries run out. Pro adds configurable retry ladders and recovery analytics.<\/p><\/dd>\n Chala adds a simple subscription product type. Variable and grouped subscription products are in Pro.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes, via Stripe's Payment Intents API. Cards requiring authentication trigger the appropriate flow.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. Chala is built HPOS-native. Subscription orders and renewal orders are first-class WooCommerce orders under HPOS. We never touch Yes. Full and partial refunds are supported through the WooCommerce order admin. Chargebacks are handled via gateway webhooks and update subscription status appropriately.<\/p><\/dd>\n Stripe and Authorize.Net have. Both have been charged repeatedly against the providers' own sandboxes \u2014 real cards, real declines, real webhook signatures, real duplicate detection.<\/p>\n\n PayPal (free) and Razorpay, Mollie, Paystack and Square (Pro) have not. Each is written against its provider's published API and covered by tests that assert exactly what Chala sends \u2014 endpoint, authentication, idempotency mechanism, amount format, and how each decline is read \u2014 but nobody has charged them for real.<\/p>\n\n The reason is eligibility, not effort. PayPal does not operate in the country this plugin is built in, and the other four require a business registered in India, the EEA, Africa, or one of Square's eight supported countries. Those are walls, not queues.<\/p>\n\n We are telling you because charging a real provider is what finds the bugs mocks cannot. Doing it to Authorize.Net found four, including one that made the integration completely non-functional \u2014 while every one of its contract tests passed.<\/p>\n\n If you run one of these, you can settle it in five minutes.<\/strong> With the gateway in sandbox mode and one test subscription bought:<\/p>\n\n It charges a stored payment method, replays the charge to prove a retried renewal cannot bill twice, refunds it, and prints a report. It refuses to run against live credentials \u2014 the gateway has to declare sandbox mode, and anything that does not say so is treated as production. Send us the output and that gateway comes off this list.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. Customers pick which gateway they want at checkout. Each subscription is tied to a single gateway for its lifetime.<\/p><\/dd>\n Free support is available in the plugin's support forum<\/a> on wordpress.org. Pro customers get email support with a 24-hour response SLA.<\/p><\/dd>\nFeatures (free)<\/h4>\n\n
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wp chala list<\/code>, wp chala renew<\/code>, wp chala export<\/code><\/li>\nwp chala gateway-selftest <gateway><\/code> charges your\nsandbox, replays the charge to prove a retried renewal will not bill twice,\nand refunds it. It refuses to run against live credentials.<\/li>\nPro version<\/h4>\n\n
Works with Nishchoy Reviews and Uttor AEO<\/h4>\n\n
Migration from WooCommerce Subscriptions<\/h4>\n\n
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wp chala migrate --dry-run<\/code> to preview.<\/li>\nwp chala migrate --commit<\/code> to import.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\nSecurity<\/h4>\n\n
External services<\/h3>\n\n
Stripe<\/h4>\n\n
api.stripe.com<\/code>: the renewal amount and currency, the Stripe customer and payment method identifiers created for that customer at checkout, an idempotency key generated by Chala, and your site's Stripe secret key for authentication. It reads back the charge result. Renewal charges are sent when a subscription is due; payment method lookups happen when a customer opens or updates a subscription. Chala never sends or receives raw card numbers \u2014 card entry happens in Stripe's own fields.<\/p>\n\nPayPal<\/h4>\n\n
api-m.paypal.com<\/code> (or api-m.sandbox.paypal.com<\/code> in sandbox mode): the renewal amount and currency, the billing agreement or vault identifier for that customer, a request identifier generated by Chala, and your site's PayPal client credentials for authentication. It reads back the payment result. Requests are made when a subscription renewal is due and when a customer updates their payment method.<\/p>\n\nSource code<\/h3>\n\n
assets\/<\/code> are the original, unminified source and are what runs in the browser.<\/p>\n\nbuild\/blocks-totals.js<\/code>, used by the block-based cart and checkout. Its source is assets-src\/blocks\/blocks-totals.js<\/code>, and the webpack.config.js<\/code>, package.json<\/code> and package-lock.json<\/code> that build it are all included in this plugin. From the plugin directory:<\/p>\n\nnpm install\nnpm run build\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nbuild\/blocks-totals.js<\/code> from that source, using @wordpress\/scripts<\/a>. No repository access or additional tooling is required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Requirements<\/h4>\n\n
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Is this really free?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Will my existing WooCommerce Subscriptions data migrate?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
What happens if a renewal payment fails?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does it work with variable products?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does it handle SCA \/ 3D Secure?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Is it HPOS-compatible?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
wp_posts<\/code> for order data.<\/p><\/dd>\nDoes it handle refunds?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Which gateways have been tested against the real provider?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
wp chala gateway-selftest paypal\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nCan I run multiple gateways for the same store?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Where can I get support?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
I'm a developer \u2014 where are the hooks?<\/h3><\/dt>\n