WooCommerce support for monthly payments

  • Greetings, I have a question about configuring a WooCommerce product for a Membership level that is paid in 3 monthly payments.

    Can WooCommerce handle this type of product? When configuring the WooCommerce product there is no option for recurring payments. I did configure the membership level to have an initial payment and two more monthly payments. The product would be “dripped” (using the Series Add-On) so that a chapter of the product is delivered with the first payment, then the second chapter after 31 days and the third after 62 days.

    I created a product in WooCommerce using the price of the initial payment and tested it with a PayPal sandbox account. It worked fine as far as giving the buyer access to the first chapter of the Series, and the other chapters are scheduled correctly.

    The question is whether or not WooCommerce will collect for the next two payments over the next two months, or whether we should be using the PMPro Levels page instead of WooCommerce so that the payment installments are properly invoiced and collected.

    Thanks in advance for your help with this question.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/pmpro-woocommerce/

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  • You will need WooCommerece Subscriptions to make that function happen.

    I wrote a full article about this whole integration today.

    https://thinkingmancreative.com/want-create-paid-newsletter-website-using-woocommerce/

    Hope that helps.

    Thread Starter TitoZ

    (@titoz)

    Thanks, Skylermoon! Your article was indeed helpful.

    I have every piece set up as you describe, but was trying to find a way to avoid paying for WooCommerce subscriptions, so I did not have the option to define the product as a “simple subscription”.

    In my case there’s only one product, a downloadable PDF, but there are two options for payment: A full payment of $197 or 3 separate payments of $77.

    If the client chooses the 3-payment version, they would have to pay $77 for the first of three chapters. The second chapter becomes available after 31 days, the third after 62 days.

    This is already working fine as long as we do NOT use WooCommerce. The Paid Memberships Pro plugin includes all functionalities required to create a 3-month subscription and “drip” the content into monthly chapters.

    Apparently the only way to do this with WooCommerce is to pay for the WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin, which may be well worth it if there were more than just one product, or if there were a mix of different products including physical products with shipping, etc.

    Your article is well presented and should be very useful to others: Well done!

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