Getting Started
Stripe via Credit CardIn fact, one of the main concerns in implementing WooCommerce subscription services is finding a payment gateway that syncs accordingly to your WooCommerce business. The WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway plugin works with the WooCommerce subscription service.
This article shows you how the WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway works with the WooCommerce subscription service.
How to achieve WooCommerce Stripe Subscriptions?
Please note that there is a WooCommerce store that sells monthly digestion. Next, let’s create a monthly subscription service for Digest.
Let’s split the entire process into four simple steps:
1. Installing the WooCommerce Subscription plugin
Firstly, install the WooCommerce Subscription plugin. Purchase and install the plugin on your WooCommerce store.
The plugin settings window is as shown below:
2. Add a new subscription product
After installation, add a new subscription product to the store.
Switch to Dashboard > Products > Add New Section. Enter the product name, product description, and other related details.
Next, in the Product Data meta box, select your desired product type. This setting is the most important setting for creating a subscription product. In addition to the standard product types, there are two types of subscription products: simple subscription and variable subscription.
A sample screenshot of the new product edit window is as shown below.
The monthly digest offers a simple subscription type to choose from. Additionally, the settings will be displayed below the screenshot.
Let us set a subscription price of $10/month for a year, and offer a free trial period of 10 days. Enter other details of the product and publish it.
3. Install our WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway Plugin
With our WooCommerce Stripe plugin, you may receive Credit/Debit Cards, Alipay, Google Pay, Stripe Checkout, and Apple Pay bills in your WooCommerce stores. You can capture payments, and perform full/partial refunds as well.
4. Subscribing the product
It’s time to purchase the product. Let’s move to the front end of our WooCommerce store for this.
A sample product page is as shown below.
Moving to the checkout page for purchasing the product. A sample checkout page is as shown below.
Next, click on the Pay via Stripe button to proceed with the payment. Next, in the Stripe checkout form, enter the payment credentials, say credit card information to complete the payment transaction.
Viewing Subscriptions
Go to WooCommerce > Subscriptions to view all subscription orders. Denotes subscription by the current status (ACTIVE – for successful payment/PENDING – for unsuccessful payments/ON HOLD – for pending manual payments), subscription number, total amount, start date, end date trial end, next payment, and so on. In the same way, you can suspend or cancel the subscription as well.
A sample subscriptions page will be as shown below.
Changing the Payment Method
View all subscriptions from My Account > Subscriptions section. If you have turned off automatic payments under the Manual Renewal Payments option in WooCommerce Subscription plugin settings, your customers can change the payment method from the subscription page
Click on Change Payment to change the payment method. You can select from the available payment method, and proceed with the payment.
Therefore, in this way, you can achieve a WooCommerce stripe subscription for your WooCommerce store.
To know more about the product, check out the Stripe Payment Gateway Plugin for WooCommerce plugin.