ArraySubs – Effortless Memberships, Subscriptions, Content Restriction & Recurring Payments for WooCommerce vs YITH WooCommerce Subscription

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.

YITH WooCommerce Subscription is the complete solution to sell products or services with a subscription plan in your e-commerce, manage recurring payments and loyalize your customers. Selling products on a subscription basis lets you get regular payments and monitor your income growth month by month. This has become the most popular business model in recent years: users pay for a subscription – typically weekly, monthly, or annually – to use software, to access training courses, to read a magazine, to get unlimited access to an archive of useful resources (like the audio file library offered by Amazon Audible or sites with photos stocks) or to benefit from a hosting service. But this applies also to gyms, video games, libraries, consulting or coaching services, legal advisory, etc… It’s a winning business model that suits most of the products or services available for sale. With this plugin you can easily create subscription products and get recurring payments in your WooCommerce shops. YITH WooCommerce Subscription Features FREE VERSION Create a subscription plan for simple, virtual or downloadable products Choose the recurring payment type (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, etc.) Set an optional end time for the subscription Enable variations as subscription based (to set different subscriptions plans and pricing using variations) User subscriptions can be charged automatically only when selecting PayPal payment method Users can find the subscription information on “My Account” page Customize the “Add to Cart” button label Customize the “Place order” button label at checkout NEW: Integration with WooCommerce PayPal Payments to let your customers easily pay through PayPal See it in action here: Check the Live Demo of the Free Version > NEED MORE? CHECK THE PREMIUM VERSION! Offer a trial period to users before subscribing to a plan Ask for a sign-up fee when purchasing a subscription plan Synchronize all subscription payments to a specific day of the week, month or year (Example: all payments will be taken the 1st of each month) New Cancel a subscription automatically if the associated order is canceled Suspend a subscription automatically in case the periodical payment fails After three failed payment attempts with Stripe or PayPal, the subscription is automatically set to “Canceled” Postpone the automatic status switch (for “active”, “overdue” and “suspended” status) by a specific number of hours Let users force the payment after the first attempt is failed (through a “Renew Now” button) Users can pause a subscription for a certain number of times (decided by the administrator) and resume it later: the expiration date will update accordingly Allow users access their subscription contents even after the expiring date and while you’re waiting for their payment Suspend access to content on the expiry date, without deleting the subscription Allow users to resubscribe a plan from “My Account” page and being granted the same conditions of the expired or canceled plan, without having to pay the sign-up fee once again or to benefit of the trial period once again Users can upgrade or downgrade a subscription plan (configurable in variable products only) Show users the total duration and the total amount of a subscription Limit users to only one subscription per product Choose if a user can add only one or more subscription products to cart New Edit and load billing and shipping address in the subscription details Let users edit the address for only one or for all subscriptions right from My Account page Create subscriptions manually from the backend Recap the subscription information on a page (Start and expiration dates, details of the subscribed product, billing and shipping information, orders linked to the subscription) Edit subscription details like renewal date, expiry date, amount, billing cycle if used (not available with PayPal standard) Dashboard with sale reports (net sales, renewals, trials, MRR, ARR, etc.) Export all your subscriptions to a CSV file Create coupons for the sign-up fee or for the recurring fee (you can now specify the number of recurring payments to which the coupon will apply) Receive automatic emails on the following conditions: a subscription plan is going to expire/has been canceled/has been paused/has been resumed Receive automatic emails when a payment has been made Automatically enable the staging mode when you clone the site to prevent double charges Choose to show or not custom messages in the product page about the Signup Fee, the Trial and the recurring payment scheduling Use the advanced Gutenberg block to show subscription plans with a modern columns design Organize and plan your subscription-based product deliveries and decide if you want to synchronize all the deliveries on a specific day (every Monday, every 1st of the month etc.) Print a PDF list of shipping labels with all the addresses of subscription-based deliveries Make users pay shipping fees only once in the subscription period with one-time shipping NEW: The “Subscription Box” module lets your customers sign up for a box and customize it by choosing the quantity and types of products they want to include See it in action here: Check the Live Demo of the Premium Version > Suggestions If you have any suggestions concerning how to improve YITH WooCommerce Subscription, you can write to us, so that we can improve YITH WooCommerce Subscription.