Milo Subscriptions – Subscriptions for WooCommerce and Recurring Payments vs Quick Paypal Payments

Milo Subscriptions is a free subscriptions plugin for WooCommerce, built on modern WordPress. The free core handles recurring billing, free trials, sign-up fees, and plan switching with proration. Customers manage their own plans in My Account. Mixed carts and the WooCommerce Blocks checkout work out of the box. Not running WooCommerce? A built-in standalone mode sells recurring plans on any WordPress site, with no store, products, or cart required. Already selling subscriptions elsewhere? The built-in migrator imports from six plugins, including WooCommerce Subscriptions and Easy Digital Downloads Recurring Payments, with a dry-run preview before anything is written and a verification report after. The core plugin, completely free: Subscription product type with daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, or custom billing intervals Free trials and one-time sign-up fees Mixed carts – subscription products and one-off products in the same checkout Plan switching with prorated charges and credits Variable subscription products Customer self-service portal in My Account: cancel, pause, resume, update payment method WooCommerce Blocks checkout fully supported Subscription Health Check that automatically scans for broken subscriptions (expired payment methods, stale gateway tokens, drifted renewal dates, auto-renewing subscriptions with no card on file) Bulk re-authorization: one campaign asks every affected customer to confirm their payment method through a secure link, ideal after a migration or a batch of expired cards Built-in migrator that imports from WooCommerce Subscriptions, Easy Digital Downloads (Recurring Payments), YITH, WP Swings, Flexible Subscriptions, and Sublium An email audit trail on every subscription: each subscription email is recorded in its notes, whether it was handed to the mail server, refused, or never attempted Modern admin with subscriptions that are sortable, filterable, and searchable REST API for core subscription management (list, create, update, status, notes, renewals, bulk actions, and more) HPOS (High-Performance Order Storage) compatible Standalone mode: sell subscriptions and recurring plans without WooCommerce (plans, subscribe blocks and shortcodes, a customer portal, and gateway webhooks) Available in 17 languages, fully translation-ready (Arabic, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Simplified Chinese) Payments Milo Subscriptions takes subscription payments through the free Milo Payments plugin. It connects PayPal, Stripe, Mollie, and Square in one admin. Already using another gateway, like Authorize.Net, Braintree, or GoCardless? The Any Gateway add-on lets subscriptions check out with any recurring-capable gateway you already have. Sell subscriptions without WooCommerce (standalone mode) No WooCommerce store? Milo Subscriptions runs on its own. Turn on standalone mode and take recurring payments on any WordPress site, with no products or cart. It is a complete way to sell recurring plans on WordPress without WooCommerce. Create subscription plans with their own price, billing interval, and free trial Add a subscribe button to any page with a block or shortcode Recurring billing through Stripe, PayPal, Mollie, and Square (via the free Milo Payments plugin), driven by secure gateway webhooks A customer portal where subscribers manage, pause, or cancel their plan Subscription emails, analytics (MRR and active subscribers), and GDPR export and erase built in Leave standalone mode off and Milo behaves like a classic WooCommerce subscriptions plugin. Same plugin, your choice. 42 premium add-ons, one ecosystem Milo Subscriptions handles the fundamentals. When your store needs more, 42 premium add-ons cover the whole subscription journey, available individually or all together in the All Add-ons Bundle. Browse them from the in-plugin marketplace (Subscriptions > Add-ons) or on milosubscriptions.com. Billing flexibility Subscription Coupons – recurring discounts and prepayment incentives All Products for Subscriptions – add a Subscribe & Save option to existing products Payment Plans – split a purchase into a fixed number of installments Trials Pro – free or paid trials with one-trial-per-customer protection Scheduled Start Dates – customers pick when billing begins Store Credit – balances that pay renewals automatically Gift Cards – sell codes that redeem into store credit Invoices – sequential invoice numbers, printable invoices, VAT field Any Gateway – subscription checkout with any recurring-capable gateway Stripe Bridge – recurring billing through the official WooCommerce Stripe gateway, made for WCS migrations Retention and lifecycle Failed Payment Retry – smart retry schedules that recover real revenue Cancellation Flows – pause or discount offers before a cancellation goes through Winback – automated come-back campaigns with one-click resubscribe Onboarding – welcome email sequences that kill early churn NPS – one-click satisfaction surveys, detractor alerts Loyalty – points on every payment, redeemable on renewals Compliance – consent proof, pre-renewal notices, one-click cancel links, audit trail Growth and marketing Referrals – subscriber referral links with two-sided rewards Affiliates – partner program with recurring commissions on renewals Social Proof – live subscriber counters and “someone just subscribed” toasts Pricing Tables – current-plan-aware pricing tables as a block or shortcode Waitlist – capacity-limited products with automatic FIFO invitations Gifting – let customers buy subscriptions for someone else Physical subscriptions and fulfillment Box Builder – mix-and-match boxes customers fill and edit each cycle Fulfillment – shipments screen, aggregated pick lists, packing slips, tracking Stock Management – reserve inventory for active subscribers Split Shipping – one subscription order, multiple addresses Calendar – private renewal/delivery calendar feeds and a merchant schedule Age Check – date-of-birth verification for age-restricted subscriptions Access, teams, and community Memberships – restrict content, products, and downloads by active subscription Teams – one subscription, multiple seats, manager-invited members Transfer – move a subscription to a new owner, history intact Discord – automatic subscriber roles on your Discord server Download Limits – cap downloadable file access by subscription status Pass – QR member passes scanned at the door, verified live License Server – sell software licenses with keys, activations, updates, and GitHub release sync Insights and operations Advanced Analytics – MRR, churn, LTV, retention cohorts, forecasts Webhooks – signed event deliveries with retries for any integration Slack – subscription events in your team channel as they happen Milo TV – a live full-screen dashboard for the office TV Gravity Forms – sell subscriptions through Gravity Forms Digest – a periodic email summary of your subscription business Learn more at milosubscriptions.com. External Services Milo Subscriptions connects to milosubscriptions.com, in two situations: 1. Anonymous usage tracking (opt-in, off by default). If you enable “Usage tracking” in the plugin settings, Milo Subscriptions sends an anonymized weekly report to our website. This is disabled by default and never runs unless you turn it on. The report contains no personal data: plugin, WordPress, PHP, and WooCommerce versions; locale, currency, and store base country; a one-way hash of your site URL; aggregate subscription counts and MRR; the payment gateways and billing periods in use; and which Milo add-ons are active. It is sent once per week while enabled, and stops when you disable the setting. 2. Downloading the free Milo Payments plugin (on demand). When you choose to install Milo Payments from the plugin’s admin, the plugin file is fetched from our website. This request only happens when you click to install and sends no data beyond a standard download request. 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Take a PayPal payment today. One shortcode puts a payment form anywhere on your WordPress site. All it needs is your PayPal email address, so you can be taking money in a few minutes, with no business account, no API keys and no developer. Unlimited forms, any currency PayPal accepts, and every label and colour is yours to change. What the free version does Unlimited payment forms, placed with a shortcode, a block or a widget Any currency PayPal accepts Charge one set price, or let the buyer type the amount Quantity, item number, and a list of options to pick from Name, email, postal address and phone number, if you want to collect them Your own message field, terms and conditions, a consent tick box and a maths captcha Change every label, caption and colour, or leave the defaults alone A record of every payment, with a CSV download Mark a payment as paid by hand once you have checked it in PayPal Multi-language and GDPR ready A personal PayPal account is enough. There is nothing to configure beyond your email address. What the paid version adds The paid version is about getting your time back and selling more than one thing. Payments confirm themselves. PayPal tells your site the moment a payment clears, so orders mark themselves paid and you stop opening PayPal to check whether one went through. Your buyer gets an automatic thank you email, and you can create their WordPress account at the same time, in whichever role you choose. Take card payments as well as PayPal. Send buyers to Stripe instead and take cards directly, on a page hosted by Stripe so no card details touch your site. Some people will not pay through PayPal, and that is the reason they abandon a payment. Sell properly rather than just collect money. Offer a choice of prices on one form, a slider, or a set of pre-set references. Run coupon codes with percentage or fixed discounts, expiry dates and limited quantities. Add postage and handling as a fixed amount or a percentage. Set a minimum amount, or switch the form to donations. Charge again next month. Recurring payments through PayPal on a schedule you choose, stopping automatically after the number of payments you set. Recurring forms use PayPal even on a site that otherwise takes cards. Sell up to nine things at once, each with its own price and quantity, on one form. And the rest: a datepicker field, Mailchimp signup, your own logo on the PayPal checkout page, sandbox mode for testing, and support by email and knowledge base. See what is in each plan. PHP Tested up to PHP 8.5 Developers plugin page quick paypal payments plugin. External Services This plugin relies on PayPal to take payments. It cannot function without it. PayPal checkout When a visitor submits one of your payment forms, the plugin sends them to PayPal to complete the payment. The data submitted to PayPal is the payment amount, currency, item name and payment reference, together with any name, email address, postal address and telephone number the visitor entered on your form. This happens only at the point a visitor submits a payment form. On pages that contain a payment form, the plugin also loads PayPal’s checkout script from https://www.paypalobjects.com/api/checkout.js. PayPal Instant Payment Notification If you enable IPN, PayPal sends your site a notification when a payment is made. Your site posts that notification back to PayPal at https://ipnpb.paypal.com (or https://ipnpb.sandbox.paypal.com in sandbox mode) so PayPal can confirm it is genuine. Only the notification PayPal sent is posted back. PayPal terms of service: https://www.paypal.com/uk/legalhub/useragreement-full PayPal privacy policy: https://www.paypal.com/uk/legalhub/privacy-full Stripe (paid version only) The free version does not contain the Stripe integration and never contacts Stripe. In the paid version, if you enter your Stripe keys and switch Stripe on, submitting a payment form creates a checkout session at https://api.stripe.com and sends the visitor to a payment page hosted by Stripe. The data sent is the payment amount, currency, item name and, if your form collects it, the visitor’s email address. No card details are entered on or handled by your site. Stripe then notifies your site when the payment completes. Stripe terms of service: https://stripe.com/legal/ssa Stripe privacy policy: https://stripe.com/privacy Freemius Licensing, updates and optional usage tracking are handled by Freemius. Usage tracking is opt in and you are asked when the plugin is activated. If you opt in, your site URL, WordPress and PHP versions and the administrator email address are sent to Freemius. If you decline, no data is sent. Freemius terms of service: https://freemius.com/terms/ Freemius privacy policy: https://freemius.com/privacy/