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WooCommerce Subscriptions Installation and Sample Product Setup

What is WooCommerce Subscriptions?

WooCommerce Subscriptions is a premium WooCommerce extension that allows you to sell products and services with recurring payments. With the new update of AIBMS Authipay, the team added support for it, as it is one of the most awaited, and requested integration – The subscription/recurring payments support!

This guide aims to help those who are new to WooCommerce Subscriptions, in terms of where to purchase and download it, and how you can create a subscription product.

Download & Installation

You can purchase, and download WooCommerce Subscription from the WooCommerce site – https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-subscriptions/

After purchasing, and downloading the plugin, proceed in uploading, and activate the plugin on your WordPress site.

Setting up a Subscription Product

To create a subscription product:

1.) Log in to your WordPress dashboard. Go to Products > Add new
2.) Select Simple Subscription as the product type.

3.) Set the terms for the subscription, including price, billing interval, billing period, length, sign-up fee, and trial period (length, sign-up fee and trial period are all optional).

4.) Add any other product details you require, as instructed by Managing Products.
5.) Click Publish.

Done! Your store now has a subscription product available that customers can subscribe to using AIBMS Authipay. As always, do a test purchase before making a live product on your stores.

Setting up Authipay for subscription payments

Reminder, the Rest API Details are required for this feature. You can check out our guide on “how you can request your site’s Rest API details” from the Authipay team, here.

Once you receive the details, you can now follow the steps below to set it up for the plugin:

1.) Go to your WordPress dashboard, in WooCommerce >> Settings >> Payment, and click on the “Manage” button for Authipay Checkout Settings.
2.) Add the keys to their respective fields

3.) Then click “Save changes”.

Check out our introduction, and guide about how you can set up, and prepare your AIBMS Authipay for subscription payments in our guide – Subscription Payments Support.