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Subscriptions

Subscriptions, right in the cart

Plans sell in the same cart as your products — and once someone subscribes, renewals happen on schedule, at the price they signed up at.

Plans & groups

A group of plans, one subscription each

Plans come in groups — monthly, annual, tiers of the same offering. The group also sets how billing retries when a card fails.

  • Any schedule — weekly, monthly, yearly, or anything in between.
  • One subscription per group — an account holds a single subscription in a group; they don't stack.
  • You set the retry policy — how many failed payment attempts before a subscription is marked unpaid.
  • Plans can retire — close a plan to new signups without touching the people already on it.
plan group · Pro
one live subscription per account · 3 retries
pro-monthly9.99 / monthactive
pro-annual99.00 / yearactive
pro-legacy7.99 / monthinactive

Signing up

Through the cart, or by hand

Put a plan in the catalog and it sells at checkout like anything else — the buyer picks the plan, pays, and the subscription starts. Your team can also set one up directly.

  • Checkout keeps the card — the payment method is saved, so renewals just work.
  • The price is set at signup — existing subscribers keep their price, even when the plan changes later.
  • Set up by hand when needed — subscribe an account directly, with a saved payment method for renewals.
  • The paper trail is kept — a subscription sold at checkout links back to the order that started it.
subscription
pro-monthlyACTIVE
Price9.99 / month
RenewsAug 12
Renewals6
Failures0

Renewals

Renewals run themselves

Due subscriptions are billed automatically through the store's payment provider. You decide the schedule and the retry policy; billing follows it.

  • Past due, then unpaid — a declined payment is retried on a delay; once the group's retry limit is reached, billing stops and the subscription is marked unpaid.
  • Success moves the date — the next billing date advances one interval and the failure count clears.
renewal sweep
pro-monthlyrenewed · 9.99
team-annualdeclined → past due, retrying
pro-annualprovider outage · retried next run

App-store purchases

Bought in the app, honored everywhere

Purchases made through Apple or Google grant the same subscriptions: the app hands over its receipt, the store confirms it, and the subscription starts or extends.

  • One receipt, one grant — each store purchase is redeemed once.
  • Extends what's there — a receipt for an active subscription extends it rather than starting a second one.
receipt redemption
App Store receiptverified → granted
Play receiptverified → extended
Replayed receiptalready redeemed

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