Setting up subscriptions
After you set up subscriptions, your customers can make scheduled purchases in a repeating frequency. To review information about your subscriptions, you must be using asubscription app from the Shopify App Store. If you have a subscription app installed, then subscription information becomes available in the following areas of your Shopify admin:
On this page
Eligibility requirements
To use third-party subscription apps, your store must meet the following requirements:
- You must be using one of the following payment gateways:
- Shopify Payments
- PayPal Express
- Authorize.net
- Stripe, which is only available to some merchants
- Customers can also useaccelerated checkoutssuch as Shop Pay, Apple Pay, Google Pay, or PayPal to purchase subscriptions.
- Customers can't uselocal payment methodssuch as Klarna, mollie iDEAL, and Sofort to purchase subscriptions.
- Shipping,local delivery, andpick up in storeare supported as delivery options for subscriptions.
- Subscription products are only supported on the欧宝体育官网入口首页andCustom Storefrontsales channels.
Using subscriptions in the Shopify admin
Before you complete any of the set up steps in the Shopify admin, you need to complete the setup in thesubscription app from the Shopify App Storeyou installed in your Shopify admin.
If you have completed the setup in your subscription app, then there are some steps to take in your Shopify admin to complete your subscriptions app setup.
Adding a subscription policy
If you have set up a subscription, then a new purchase options cancellation policy is added to your store. This policy is linked in the checkout footer as a subscription policy. If the policy in the Shopify admin settings is blank, then a generated template is displayed to customers.Add or edit your store policiesto update the subscription policy that's displayed to your customers.
Subscription products
If you use a subscription app to offer subscription products, then you can view a product's subscription details on the product page in your Shopify admin.
If a product or any of its variants have a subscription applied to it, then its subscription details are shown in theSubscriptionssection of the product page.
You can limit your subscription products to being sold only as a subscription, or you can enable both subscription and one-time purchases.
Steps:
- From your Shopify admin, clickProducts.
- Click the product that you want to manage the subscription of.
- Select whether to sell the product as a subscription only:
- To sell the product as a subscription only, checkSell product as a subscription only.
- To sell the product as one-time purchases as well as subscriptions, uncheckSell product as a subscription only.
Subscription discounts
If you offer subscription products, then there are more options when creating fixed-amount, percentage, or free shipping discounts.
ThePurchase typesection appears on theCreate discount codepage. You can choose if a discount applies to subscription purchases, one-time purchases, or both.
Change a discount's purchase type
When youcreate a discount codeyou can choose to limit the use of your discount to specific purchase types. If you selectSubscriptionin thePurchase typesection of theCreate discount codepage, then you can choose to apply the discount toAll subscription products,All subscription products in a specific collection, orSpecific subscription products.
如果你有一个现有的折扣代码,你苍白t to update, then you can edit your discount code to include subscription-based rules.
Steps:
From your Shopify admin, go toDiscounts.
Click the discount that you want to edit.
In thePurchase typesection, choose the purchase type that you would like to limit your discount code to:
- If you selectSubscriptionas the purchase type for your discount code, then you can choose which subscription products to apply your discount to. You can limit the use of your discount code to specific subscription products, or a specific collection.
- 如果你选择到一个特定的限制你的折扣subscription product, or collection, then search for your product or collection usingBrowsebutton that appears.
Change usage limits on Free shipping discount
If you offer afree shipping discountthat applies to subscription products, then you can specify for how long the discount applies. You can choose to limit your free shipping discount to the first payment, to limit your free shipping to a certain number of payments, or to enable free shipping on all future subscription payments.
If you have an existing free shipping discount that you want to update, then you can edit your discount code to include subscription-based rules.
Steps:
From your Shopify admin, go toDiscounts.
Click the free shipping discount you want to edit.
Update the purchase type toSubscriptionin thePurchase typesection of the discount editor.
In theUsage limitssection, select the limitations that you want to apply to your discount underRecurring payments for subscriptions.
Customer checkout experience
Subscription apps show subscription information to customers in the checkout. For example, when buying a subscription product, the order frequency is shown in the order summary.
During theInformationstep of the checkout and whenpick up in storeis enabled, your customer can choose thePick upoption to pick up the order from one of your locations.
During theShippingstep of the checkout, your customer is shown the shipping costs per delivery and the frequency of the subscription in theShipping methodsection. If your customer is buying more than one subscription product, then the shipping cost, and frequency of their subscription is shown under each line item in the order.
During thePaymentstep of the checkout, your customer needs to confirm that they understand that they are purchasing a subscription. They can't complete their purchase without agreeing to this.