Subscription pricing
In this help article, we’ll cover how you can use recurring pricing to sell subscriptions.
Subscription pricing is a rolling payment plan, recurring at the interval of your choice.
Simply create your one page checkout and select Subscription as your pricing.
How to create subscription pricing
- Create a checkout
- Select Subscription as your pricing
- Set your Amount under Price
- Select your Currency
- Select how often the payment Repeats (daily/weekly/monthly/every 3 months/every 6 months/yearly)
- Optionally, check the box if you’d like to:
- Add discounted from pricing to show the original price of your subscription
- Offer a free trial and enter the number of days
- Charge a setup fee along with the first subscription payment
- Select price from Stripe to reuse products and prices from Stripe
- Click Create checkout
- Now you’ve created a checkout with subscription pricing!
“Discounted from” pricing
You can choose to add a strike-through price to your subscription to show the discount you’re offering.
Select Add discounted from price and enter the original price of your subscription.
Learn more about “discounted from” pricing here
Trial periods
Set a period of days where your customers can try your product without being charged.
Tick to Offer a free trial and enter the number of days.
Your customers will be charged as soon as the trial period ends.
Example:
Your customer purchases a subscription on May 3 at 14:00 with a 5-day trial period.
Your customer will be charged on May 10 at 14:00.
Learn more about free trial here
Setup fee
You can charge a one-time setup fee to your customer when they sign up for a new subscription.
Example:
Your customer purchases a subscription of $49 per month and a $199 initial setup fee, charged once.
This is a one page checkout that your customer will see when making the first payment:
Learn more about setup fees here
Select price from Stripe
When you set up a new subscription or payment plan, Checkout Page automatically creates a new price for you on Stripe. This price mirrors the settings from Checkout Page and bills your customers accordingly.
If you are an existing Stripe user and have already set up a number of products on Stripe, you can easily reuse one of your existing payment plans or subscriptions by selecting a price from Stripe.
This way you can keep your Stripe account organized, subscribing your customers to the same plan you have already been using and reuse the same price across multiple checkouts.
Learn more about selecting prices from Stripe here
Managing customers
You can view your subscription customers on the Subscriptions page.
From your dashboard, navigate to Payments and then Subscriptions to view all your subscribers and their status.
Here you will see the plan a customer has subscribed to and any other information they provided at checkout.
You can click on each subscription to manage it. This will allow you to open the subscription in the Stripe dashboard, where you can make any changes if needed.
Subscription analytics
From your Checkouts page, click on Payments next to your checkout and view Analytics.
Here you will see the statistics for your subscription, like the total number of subscriptions, volume, visits and referrals.
Subscription management for customers
Your customers can manage their subscriptions in your customer portal.
They receive a link to your portal in the payment confirmation email.
To see the link to your customer portal, open Settings from your dashboard and click on the Customer portal.
A customer can access your customer portal by filling in their email address. They will then receive an email with a link that provides access to the portal for 20 minutes.
