Title: Can it import subscriptions?
Last modified: February 1, 2025

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# Can it import subscriptions?

 *  Resolved [anphira](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anphira/)
 * (@anphira)
 * [1 year, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-it-import-subscriptions/)
 * I have Woo Subscriptions – [https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-subscriptions/](https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-subscriptions/)–
   on several sites and I’m interested in switching to StellarPay. The key issue
   is — I don’t want to lose any of my existing subscriptions.
 * So, can StellarPay import the existing subscriptions? Or would switching cause
   the loss of all current subscriptions?

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 *  [Ben Meredith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benmeredithgmailcom/)
 * (@benmeredithgmailcom)
 * [1 year, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-it-import-subscriptions/#post-18282741)
 * Hey [@anphira](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anphira/)
 * This is a fantastic question, and one that we anticipated for sure.
 * The short answer is that the only way currently to migrate from WooCommerce Subscriptions
   to StellarPay is to do it manually with the help of a developer familiar with
   WooCommerce Subscriptions (and any customizations as far as the critical data
   needed for your specific store).
 * It’s definitely possible, but right now it’s not what I’d call “easy.”
 * The problem with building a tool to do that migration is the sheer number of 
   moving (or unknown) parts.
 * The way WooCommerce Subscriptions handles the data (and the connection to Stripe,
   even) is markedly different than how StellarPay does, and so moving from one 
   to the other means you have to account for those difference, and for the various
   ways that WooCommerce Subscriptions does things differently. One notable example
   is the way Woo Subscriptions actually triggers the subscription: the last time
   I looked, it’s not technically even a subscription on the Stripe side, it’s a
   series of one-time transactions that WooCommerce Subscriptions is pulling together
   to act like a subscription. (that’s potentially not true at all, as I’ve just
   not looked at Woo Subscriptions in a while and could be confusing it with other
   ecommerce stuff I’ve looked at lately)
 * We’ve not ruled out building a migration tool, but it’s not on the immediate 
   plans.
 * It’s nevertheless a huge priority to be able to support folks who want to migrate
   their sites from WooCommerce Subscriptions (or any other Stripe-based Subscription
   service for WooCommerce Stores) to StellarPay, so our short -term goal is to 
   put together some documentation on how it all works that’s developer-level (but
   accessible to folks who don’t want to be elbow-deep in the code) and walks through
   the potential gotchas involved with a migration.
   If you’d like to help us as 
   we write that documentation, we’d certainly welcome it. The best way you can 
   do that would be to let us know what information is critical in the WooCommerce
   Subscriptions data as you anticipate migrating to StellarPay. In other words:
   what are the “must-haves” for that transition?
 * To gather the answers to that question (without clogging up the forum here) I’ve
   moved this to a [feature request here on our feedback site](https://stellarpay.featureos.app/p/migration-help-from-existing-gateway).
 * I’ll go ahead and mark this as resolved, so that all conversation about it can
   happen on our feedback site!
 * Thanks again for reaching out.

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 * Last reply from: [Ben Meredith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benmeredithgmailcom/)
 * Last activity: [1 year, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-it-import-subscriptions/#post-18282741)
 * Status: resolved