Woocommerce Subscription/membership

Hi there,

Thank you for reaching out!

I understand that you’d like to start offering membership plans on a subscription basis to your customers so that they’d be able to receive membership discounts in return for the annual subscription fee.

The core WooCommerce plugin itself doesn’t come with such functionality, so you’d need an additional plugin or two.

Such functionality could be added using plugins such as WooCommerce Subscriptions and WooCommerce Memberships:

https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-memberships-subscriptions-integration/

Both orders and subscriptions themselves are a custom WordPress post type, and the subscription number is assigned automatically. It is also not editable.

Each renewal will generate a new renewal order which is bound to the subscription and the original order.

Other subscription/membership plugins might have different functionality.

If you have additional questions about Subscriptions and Memberships extensions offered on WooCommerce.com – feel free to submit a support request:

https://woocommerce.com/contact-us/

I hope this helps!

Hi grigaswp

Thanks for the replay. That is indeed what I found out. The only thing I need to figure out is that I can add a custom field to a customer account linked to a subscription or membership. isn’t the support request only for paying accounts?

For example there are 2 options you subscribe to a single Subscriptions for $10/year or a familie pack for $20/year. I know how to create that with the Subscriptions plug-in. I used that on a couple of sites: Works great, big fan!

But for the site i’m currently building they want the customer membership number, they have for over 40 years, linked to the customer account on the site. When they take a new subscription next year.

If I understand you correctly I should look for a extra plug-in outside WooCommerce

Hi there,

Thanks for the replay. That is indeed what I found out. The only thing I need to figure out is that I can add a custom field to a customer account linked to a subscription or membership. isn’t the support request only for paying accounts?

Adding a custom field to a subscription should be possible – since the billing details are shown on a subscription page, you could add a custom field with some custom code:

https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/tutorial-customising-checkout-fields-using-actions-and-filters/

Alternatively, you could use a plugin like Checkout Field Editor:

https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-checkout-field-editor/

If you decide to pursue such functionality and find yourself in need of help with the code – I’d recommend reaching out to someone from WooCommerce.com customizations page.

The support team at WooCommerce.com will be happy to answer any pre-sales questions, although the support they are able to offer for non-paying users is limited.

For example there are 2 options you subscribe to a single Subscriptions for $10/year or a familie pack for $20/year. I know how to create that with the Subscriptions plug-in. I used that on a couple of sites: Works great, big fan!

But for the site i’m currently building they want the customer membership number, they have for over 40 years, linked to the customer account on the site. When they take a new subscription next year.

If I understand you correctly I should look for a extra plug-in outside WooCommerce

Indeed, the fact that existing sequential membership numbers have to be assigned to particular subscriptions, including existing ones, complicates things quite a bit as that is not something WooCommerce Subscriptions is capable of by default.

Custom development might be necessary in order to make this happen, so if you’ll be able to find a third-party plugin which comes with such functionality by default – that might be a better option than customizing WooCommerce.com extensions.

I’m not aware of such plugin though.

I hope this helps!

This helps, grigaswp. Thanks

Hi @cd_be,

I’m glad if this helps!

I’ll be marking this thread as resolved but feel free to open a new thread and link to this one if you have further questions.

Have a wonderful day ahead!