Side-by-side comparison · 24 data points
Improve your order management by creating additional order statuses. Manually or automatically assign order statuses and keep customers informed with automatic email notifications.
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WooCommerce Subscriptions is a WooCommerce extension that lets customers subscribe to your products or services and pay on a weekly, monthly, or annual basis. It integrates with over 25 payment gateways for automatic recurring payments and supports automatic rebilling on failed subscription payments. Subscribers can manage their own plan — upgrading, downgrading, suspending, or canceling — and update their shipping address or payment method. It's a paid annual extension with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
| Metric | Custom Order Status | WooCommerce Subscriptions |
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| Rating | ★ 4.4 ★ | 3.5 ★ |
| Total reviews | 13 | ★ 104 |
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| Pricing | ★ $49/year | $279/year |
Based on the data on this page, Custom Order Status is the stronger choice for most WooCommerce Marketplace store owners — 4.4★ vs WooCommerce Subscriptions's 3.5★ is a meaningful gap that usually reflects real product or support quality differences across the user base.
Pricing differs significantly: Custom Order Status at $49/year vs WooCommerce Subscriptions at $279/year (WooCommerce Subscriptions is roughly 5.7x the entry-tier cost of Custom Order Status). The pricier tier typically signals deeper feature coverage or higher capacity ceilings; confirm the gap matches your actual feature requirements before treating cost as the deciding factor.
WooCommerce Subscriptions has the larger user base (104 reviews vs 13), which usually maps to broader integration coverage, faster bug-fix cadence, and a deeper bench of community workflow patterns. Custom Order Status's smaller cohort can be an advantage for niche workflows where the bigger app has accumulated bloat.
Recommended by size: small/early-stage store owners who need fast install and low risk should default to Custom Order Status; mid-market and enterprise store owners with specific feature requirements should evaluate both — WooCommerce Subscriptions's 104-review base may include the workflow context that matches your specific use case better than Custom Order Status's broader-but-shallower coverage.
This verdict is generated from the live marketplace data on this page — rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position all refresh from the canonical WooCommerce Marketplace listing every 24 hours. AppRanks does not accept payment to influence comparison outcomes; the methodology is documented on the About page and applies identically to every pair on the site.
Read each app's audit: Custom Order Status audit • WooCommerce Subscriptions audit
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| form | #306 | #15 |
| payment | #306 | #15 |
Both Custom Order Status and WooCommerce Subscriptions offer paid plans only. Custom Order Status starts at $49/year; WooCommerce Subscriptions starts at $279/year. Compare the per-tier features in the Pricing section above before committing.
Custom Order Status has the higher average rating (4.4★ from 13 reviews) compared to WooCommerce Subscriptions (3.5★ from 104 reviews). Both are tracked daily by AppRanks, so the figures here update each refresh cycle.
Custom Order Status holds the higher average rating (4.4★ vs 3.5★). That is the one dimension AppRanks can separate them on here — read both apps' detail pages for the feature breakdown and recent listing changes.
Both apps are one-click installs from the WooCommerce Marketplace. WooCommerce Subscriptions has the deeper published review base (104 vs 13), which often — though not always — accompanies better-tested setup docs. AppRanks doesn't measure setup time directly: read the recent reviews on each app's detail page for user-reported install experience.
Custom Order Status typically suits early-stage and growth-mode teams based on its published review base (13 reviews). WooCommerce Subscriptions typically suits early-stage and growth-mode teams based on its published review base (104 reviews). A larger review base generally means the app has been exercised at scale — relevant if you are processing high volume or handling enterprise compliance requirements.
Migration support varies by app and category. Custom Order Status and WooCommerce Subscriptions both publish their export options on their marketplace listing pages (or in their support docs); some apps offer one-click import from competitors, others require CSV. The fastest check: search "import from Custom Order Status" in each app's help center. AppRanks does not track migration tooling directly — this is a category-specific capability worth verifying before commitment.
