Title: Recommendations for Subscription Options
Last modified: May 21, 2019

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# Recommendations for Subscription Options

 *  Resolved [mallo82](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mallo82/)
 * (@mallo82)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recommendations-for-subscription-options/)
 * I am in the process of setting up a WooCommerce store for a subscription product
   but I’m struggling to get all the options that I would ideally like to have. 
   Can anyone please make any recommendations?
 * My store has 3 products – two simple products and one variable product.
    I want
   to give the option to choose subscription frequency – to have a product delivered
   each month, every 2nd month, or every 3rd month. Plus the option to instead just
   make a one-off purchase.
 * I also want to give the option to pre-pay for 3, 6 or 12 shipments. If it is 
   not possible to do it by number of shipments then 3, 6, or 12 calendar months
   instead. When the pre-paid period is finished, then another pre-paid payment 
   would be automatically debited for the same period-length as the previous, rather
   than changing to the typical billing cycle (e.g. monthly).
 * Finally, I would like to give the option to make a pre-payment as a gift subscription,
   whereby, if selected, the subscription will not renew.
    I had previously been
   using Shopify and these were basic subscription options available. However, for
   WooCommerce I can’t find such a solution.
 * At present, I have WooCommerce Subscriptions installed and I have the All Products
   for WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin installed to provide the subscription frequency
   and one-off purchase options.
 * I then installed the FlyCart Prepaid/Upfront Payments plugin but have hit a problem.
   The All Products for WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin uses Simple Products and
   Variable Products, and creates a new tab on the Product Data section for ‘Subscriptions’,
   rather than using Simple Subscriptions and Variable Subscriptions, which is what
   the FlyCart Prepaid plugin requires to be used. Therefore I can’t use the FlyCart
   plugin along with the All Products plugin.
 * I had also been recommended a solution using the AutomateWoo plugin but from 
   my research it seems I would have the same problem as with the FlyCart plugin.
 * I really don’t know what else to try now. Can anyone help at all please?

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 *  [madeincosmos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madeincosmos/)
 * (@madeincosmos)
 * Automattic Happiness Engineer
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recommendations-for-subscription-options/#post-11564875)
 * Hi [@mallo82](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mallo82/),
 * I understand you’re looking for an option to decouple subscription delivery schedule(
   every 1, 2, 3, etc months) from the billing schedule (pay for 1, 3, 6 deliveries
   at once). That’s a tricky case, as different billing & delivery schedules aren’t
   an option in WooCommerce Subscriptions yet, and we’re not aware of any prepayment
   plugins that would be compatible with it.
 * I can see this was already suggested on the Ideas Board for Subscriptions, so
   can you please add your votes and comments here?
 * [http://ideas.woocommerce.com/forums/133476-woocommerce/suggestions/4439471-subscriptions-prepaid-subscription-package](http://ideas.woocommerce.com/forums/133476-woocommerce/suggestions/4439471-subscriptions-prepaid-subscription-package)
 * We’d like to see how many people would be interested in this.
 * As a workaround, you may consider using sign-up fee as a substitute for pre-payment.
   This isn’t perfect as the customer would need to login on the site each time 
   manually, but would at least let you decouple billing from shipping schedule.
   Here is an article that explains how this works:
 * [https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/subscriptions/faq/#section-69](https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/subscriptions/faq/#section-69)
 * If all else fails, you may consider a custom-tailored solution for your site 
   that extends the default features of our plugins. If you need any coding help,
   you can reach out to one of our customization partners:
 * [https://woocommerce.com/customizations](https://woocommerce.com/customizations)
 * Cheers!

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 * Last reply from: [madeincosmos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madeincosmos/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recommendations-for-subscription-options/#post-11564875)
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