ArraySubs – Effortless Memberships, Subscriptions, Content Restriction & Recurring Payments for WooCommerce vs Simple Payment

ArraySubs is a free WooCommerce subscription plugin and WooCommerce membership plugin for stores that want subscriptions, recurring billing, gated content, customer self-service, retention offers, and subscription analytics in one system. If you are looking for a WooCommerce Subscriptions alternative, ArraySubs helps you start without assembling separate plugins for recurring products, memberships, content restriction, cancellation surveys, member discounts, customer portals, and reporting. The current ArraySubs feature catalog lists 67 feature areas: 41 work in the free core, and 26 Pro upgrades add automatic gateway billing, store credit, checkout builder workflows, advanced analytics, gateway health, and revenue automation when your store is ready. Visit ArraySubs | User Guides & Documentation ArraySubs turns WooCommerce into a subscription business platform: Sell simple and variable subscription products with trials, signup fees, intro pricing, coupons, and one-click checkout URLs. Run recurring billing with manual renewal invoices in the free core, or add automatic Stripe, PayPal, and Paddle renewals with Pro. Give customers a WooCommerce My Account subscription portal for invoices, details, cancellation, pause, skip, plan switching, and renewal actions. Build memberships with content restriction, member-only discounts, URL rules, gated downloads, Elementor container restriction, Gutenberg block restriction, and content dripping. Reduce churn with a 3-step retention flow, cancellation reason capture, targeted save offers, and retention analytics. Manage subscriptions from wp-admin with lifecycle notes, exports, refund tools, emails, reports, troubleshooting, and HPOS compatibility. Start Free. Upgrade for Autopilot. The free core is built for real launches, not a limited demo. You can publish subscription products, collect checkout payments, send renewal invoices, restrict member content, manage subscribers, run retention offers, and report on churn without a license key. Upgrade to ArraySubs Pro when you need automatic off-session billing through Stripe, PayPal, or Paddle; failed-payment retry automation; auto-downgrade fallback plans; Store Credit; Checkout Page Builder; Feature Manager; Gateway Health; Member Insight; activity audits; scheduled-job logs; and advanced analytics. The website also offers a 10-day Pro trial with no credit card and a 30-day money-back guarantee. What You Can Build With ArraySubs SaaS and digital products – tiered plans, free trials, plan switching, feature entitlements with Pro, and automatic billing with Pro gateways. Membership sites – gated communities, premium libraries, role mapping, member-only pricing, content dripping, and self-service account management. Online courses and content platforms – restrict lessons, posts, custom post types, page sections, downloads, URLs, Elementor containers, and Gutenberg blocks. Subscription boxes and physical products – recurring products, manual renewal invoices, WooCommerce tax, product guardrails, and Pro recurring shipping workflows. Agencies and service retainers – recurring service plans, admin-created subscriptions, support impersonation, notes, refunds, reports, and customer portal actions. Stores replacing multiple plugins – subscriptions, memberships, retention, profile tools, My Account customization, reports, and access control in one plugin. Subscription Products and Checkout Turn WooCommerce simple or variable products into subscription products. Each plan can have its own billing period, interval, trial, signup fee, subscription length, and renewal price behavior. Variable products can model Basic, Pro, Agency, monthly, annual, or other tiered pricing without duplicating product pages. Core product and checkout features include: Simple subscription products with one recurring price. Variable subscriptions with per-plan price, billing cycle, and trial settings. Free trials before the first recurring charge. One-time signup or setup fees at checkout. Different renewal pricing after a configured cycle. Lifetime deals for one payment and ongoing access without renewal invoices. One-click checkout URLs for direct purchase flows. WooCommerce coupons on subscription purchases, recurring discounts, and cycle limits. Purchase guardrails for one-per-customer, one-per-product, mixed-cart, and migration rules. Classic checkout and WooCommerce block checkout support. WooCommerce tax handling on checkout and renewal orders. Price locking so existing subscribers keep their purchase-time rate. Recurring Billing: Manual in Free, Automatic in Pro ArraySubs uses WooCommerce orders for subscription checkout and renewal invoices. In the free core, renewals are manual invoices: ArraySubs creates the renewal order, sends the customer a payment link, and lets the customer pay through the available WooCommerce gateway. That means the free plugin can work with the wider WooCommerce gateway ecosystem for checkout and manual renewal payments, including offline methods such as bank transfer. For automatic recurring payments, ArraySubs Pro adds supported gateway workflows: Stripe – ArraySubs-managed billing with saved payment methods, SCA / 3D Secure handling, card lifecycle events, refunds, disputes, and webhook reconciliation. PayPal – gateway-managed billing agreements with webhook sync back to ArraySubs subscriptions and renewal orders. Paddle – gateway-managed subscriptions, hosted payment flows, native tax/VAT handling as merchant of record, and webhook sync. Renewal Recovery, Grace Periods, Skip, Pause, and Plan Changes Subscriptions should not fail permanently because a payment is late or a customer needs temporary flexibility. ArraySubs includes recovery and self-service workflows designed to keep customers active: 2-phase grace period – keep access alive during payment recovery before moving toward cancellation. Skip Next Renewal – let eligible customers or admins skip an upcoming billing cycle while keeping the schedule intact. Pause / Vacation Mode – temporarily pause a subscription instead of forcing cancellation. Plan Switching – support upgrades, downgrades, and crossgrades between allowed plans. 3 proration methods – charge immediately, apply at renewal, or switch with no proration. Trial conversion – move trial subscriptions into the paid renewal flow. Pro failed-payment automation – add automatic retry schedules and auto-downgrade fallback plans. Pro Flexible Renewal Sync – align eligible new subscriptions to shared billing-cycle boundaries with full, prorated, or next-cycle first-charge behavior. Customer Subscription Portal ArraySubs adds a customer-facing subscription portal inside WooCommerce My Account, so subscribers can handle common actions without opening a support ticket. The portal can show subscription lists, details, billing cycles, next payment dates, related orders, Pay Now links, refund history, notes, status badges, and available actions. Customer self-service covers cancellation, scheduled cancellation undo, reactivation where available, skip renewal, pause, and plan switching. Pro adds payment-method workflows for supported automatic gateways. Member Access, Content Restriction, and Member Discounts ArraySubs combines subscriptions and memberships in one plugin. Member Access can use subscription status, purchased products, purchased variations, categories, lifetime spend, WordPress roles, and nested AND/OR conditions to decide who gets access. Use ArraySubs to: Gate pages, posts, and any custom post type. Restrict specific posts, all posts of a type, or taxonomy-based content. Protect URL paths by exact match, prefix, contains, or regex pattern. Restrict only part of a page with shortcodes, Elementor containers, or Gutenberg blocks. Drip content over time by date or member timing. Restrict WooCommerce downloadable files. Hide products, block purchases, redirect visitors, show access-denied messages, or protect shop areas. Create member-only discounts and pricing rules for products, categories, carts, and checkout. Map WordPress roles based on subscription status. Use advanced nested condition groups for real membership tiers. Retention Flow Builder and Retention Analytics The cancellation button becomes a save flow. Before cancellation is finalized, ArraySubs can collect the customer’s reason, show a matching retention offer, and ask for final confirmation only after the save attempt. The Retention Flow Builder supports 4 offer types: Discount offer. Pause offer. Downgrade offer. Contact support offer. Retention Analytics reports cancellation reasons, offer acceptance, churn trends, product churn, and saved revenue so you can improve pricing, onboarding, plans, and support from real subscriber behavior. Admin Subscription Management Store owners and staff can manage subscription operations from wp-admin: Central subscription list, search, filters, status views, and detail screens. Create subscriptions from wp-admin for migrations, phone orders, support, and manual setup. Export subscription data to CSV or JSON. Subscription notes and lifecycle timeline. Refund management with prorated, full, and partial refund workflows. Lifecycle emails for customers and admins across signup, trial, renewal, payment, failure, cancellation, retention, card, gateway, and Pro store-credit events. Reports hub and WooCommerce Analytics extensions for subscription revenue, growth, churn, retention, and customer behavior. Troubleshooting guides for renewal failures, portal action failures, access conflicts, gateway issues, and scheduled jobs. HPOS compatibility for WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage. Setup, Profiles, My Account, and Site Access Toolkit ArraySubs also includes store-building tools that normally require more plugins: Easy Setup Wizard – a guided 9-step setup flow with business profiles and settings import/export. Profile Builder – custom profile fields, avatars, and account profile controls. My Account Page Builder – reorder, rename, hide, and add WooCommerce My Account endpoints. Shortcodes – content restriction, login/logout links, visibility controls, and user profile output. Admin Bar Visibility – hide the frontend WordPress admin bar for customers. Admin Dashboard Access – redirect customer roles away from wp-admin safely. WordPress Login Page controls – route login and registration through WooCommerce My Account. Login as User – support customers without asking for their password. Pro Automation and Revenue Upgrades ArraySubs Pro adds the automation layer for stores that have outgrown manual renewal workflows: Automatic Stripe, PayPal, and Paddle recurring billing. Failed-payment retry automation and recovery emails. Auto-downgrade on failure to preserve the customer relationship. Store Credit wallets, credit purchases, refund-to-credit, history, expiry, and credit emails. Checkout Page Builder for branded classic checkout flows with conditional fields. Feature Manager for per-plan entitlements and “what’s included” product displays. Feature-based member access conditions. Flexible Renewal Sync. Fixed-date subscriptions and subscription shipping workflows. Product page redirection controls. Multi-login prevention. Member Insight customer dashboards. Gateway Health, activity audit screens, and scheduled-job logs. Advanced analytics and reporting extensions. Support For setup help, feature guides, and troubleshooting, visit the ArraySubs User Guides. For product information, visit ArraySubs.

Selling something shouldn’t require a full shopping cart. Simple Payment turns any WordPress post, page, block, form or button into a ready-to-pay product or service in minutes — and routes the money through the payment gateway you already trust. No bloated store to configure, no checkout to rebuild: just a shortcode (or a block, or an Elementor widget) and you are taking payments. From a single “Donate” button to installment plans, saved cards, subscriptions and multi-gateway checkouts, Simple Payment scales from a personal blog to a commercial site — while keeping sensitive card data out of your database. Why you’ll love it Sell in minutes, not days. Drop one shortcode on any page and you have a working, styled payment form. Post/page titles become the product name and a custom field becomes the price — automatically. Use the gateway you already have. One consistent form and workflow in front of many gateways — switch providers without rebuilding your pages. Built for real money flows. Installments, monthly subscriptions / recurring, saved-card tokenization, refunds, invoices/receipts, and automatic transaction verification. Beautiful, flexible forms. Multiple templates (Bootstrap, Legacy, Donation, free-amount), inline, IFRAME or modal display, and full support for your own theme templates. Privacy first. PCI-DSS friendly: card data is masked/redacted before anything touches the database, and old records can be auto-archived and purged. Developer friendly. A rich set of actions and filters, a documented Engine API to extend any gateway or build your own, plus a full transactions log with filtering and CSV export. Supported payment gateways (Engines) PayPal, Cardcom, iCount, PayMe, iCredit, CreditGuard, Meshulam, YaadPay, Credit2000, WooCommerce (third-party site), plus a Custom engine for anything else and a Test engine for development. NEW: Sell on one site, charge on another (WooCommerce engine) The WooCommerce engine lets your site take a purchase and hand the actual payment off to a separate, third-party WooCommerce store over its REST API — perfect for agencies, marketplaces, franchises and multi-brand operators who want a central “storefront” and one billing store that owns the gateways, invoices and bookkeeping. The customer clicks Buy on your site; Simple Payment creates the order on the remote WooCommerce store with the correct total and customer details. The shopper pays on the remote store (in a redirect, popup or modal) using whatever gateways that store has enabled. A bundled Companion mode on the receiving store validates and keeps the originating parameters, can auto-complete paid orders, silences the remote store’s duplicate customer/admin emails for outsourced requests, and sends the customer straight back to your site when payment succeeds. You keep a full record of every transaction on the originating site, with automatic status verification. Works with your favorite tools Gutenberg block editor, Elementor, WooCommerce, WPJobBoard, GravityForms and Form Maker — plus Zapier to trigger workflows (CRM, email, spreadsheets, fulfilment) on every payment. What you can build One-click “Buy” / “Donate” buttons anywhere on your site Pay-what-you-want donation forms with a free-entry amount Membership, course or service checkouts on a single landing page Installment plans and monthly subscriptions Central storefront that bills through a separate WooCommerce store Currently on Beta: PayMe – please contact if you require assistance. Soon to be released: Pelecard, Tranzila. PS: You’ll need a Simple Payment API key for advanced gateways to use it. Keys are available for personal blogs; single domain, multiple domains, businesses and commercial sites. Feedback and Support I would be happy to receive your feedback to improve this plugin. Please let me know through support forums if you like it and please be sure to leave a review.. Also you can contact me on my personal page Ido Kobelkowsky or even visit Github of Simple Payment where you can find all the development code of this plugin. I hope it is useful for you and look forward to reading your reviews! 😉 Thanks! Advanced Configuration: Theme Custom Payment Processing To write your own payment processing integration, to be plugin, read the information at this link: https://simple-payment.yalla-ya.com/ you will require to write a simple php class that Pre Process, Process and Post Process the transaction with your your payment gateway.