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  2. Paligo
  3. Pre-built integrations
  4. Mollie for WooCommerce
  5. WooCommerce: Set up subscriptions

WooCommerce: Understand subscriptions

You can use recurring payments to charge customers on a regular basis. Customers make the first payment with the payment method of their choice. Subsequent payments happen automatically using direct debits or credit card charges.

Tip

  • To reduce the risk of chargebacks, we recommend that you clearly communicate to your customers how much and how often they will be charged.

  • We also recommend that you notify your customers a few of days in advance of the each payment, for example by sending them an email.

Supported payment methods

Customers who buy a subscription from your store must make an initial payment with a supported payment method. In so doing, they authorise payments for future instalments of their subscription.

If your customer initially paid with a credit/debit card, all their subsequent payments are by credit/debit card. If they pay with any other payment method, all their subsequent payments are by SEPA Direct Debit.

  • Apple Pay

  • Bancontact

  • Belfius Pay button

  • Credit/debit cards

  • EPS

  • Giropay

  • iDEAL

  • KBC/CBC Payment Button

  • SOFORT Banking

Supported WooCommerce Subscriptions features

Mollie supports most but not all of the features offered by WooCommerce Subscriptions. The following are the features that it supports:

  • Synchronise renewals

  • Retry failed payments

  • Switch subscriptions

  • Suspend subscriptions

  • WooCommerce: Cancel subscriptions

  • Reactivate subscriptions

  • Manage multiple subscriptions

  • Manage recurring total charges

  • Change the payment date

  • Change the payment method (merchants only)

    Note

    Your customers can only change the payment method for a particular order, and only if they make a manual payment in the following situations:

    • Early renewal

    • The renewal status is "pending renewal order"

    • A renewal payment has failed

    It's impossible to change the payment method for the subscription as a whole.

    If a customer wants to use a different payment method for their subscription, we recommend that they cancel their subscription and resubscribe at the end of the subscription term.

  • Pay for renewal

  • Change the address for one subscription

  • Change the address for all subscriptions

  • Resubscribe

  • Enable early renewals

  • Set next payment date after early renewal

  • Enable automatic renewal

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