Woo Subscriptions
Woo's official premium extension for selling recurring products, memberships and subscription boxes, with renewals, switching, retries and gifting.
95
YITH WooCommerce Subscription
Freemium WooCommerce subscription plugin from YITH with PayPal renewals free and trials, pauses, subscription boxes and delivery schedules in premium.
Free installs6K+WordPress.org, active
Est. Pro installs~4.4KLikely 2.9K–6.6K
Rating3.0/546 reviews
Price from€199.99/yrFreemium
Last updated7 Oct 2026Version 4.22.0
Overview
YITH WooCommerce Subscription is a freemium recurring-payments plugin from YITH, the Italian developer behind a large catalogue of WooCommerce extensions. A free version is listed on WordPress.org and a premium version is sold on yithemes.com with one year of updates and support.
The free plugin turns simple, virtual, downloadable and variable products into subscriptions with daily, weekly, monthly or yearly billing and an optional end date. Customers manage their subscriptions from the WooCommerce My Account page. Automatic charging in the free version is limited to PayPal (PayPal Standard and WooCommerce PayPal Payments), so it suits small stores that already take PayPal.
Premium additions
- Free trials, sign-up fees and recurring or sign-up coupons.
- Renewal synchronisation to a set day, plus scheduled deliveries and a printable PDF address list for physical shipments.
- Customer pause and suspend with limits on the number of pauses or days, and upgrade or downgrade between variation plans.
- Rules for failed payments that decide when a subscription is suspended or cancelled.
- A subscription box builder where customers choose the products in each box.
- A dashboard with revenue, popular plans and trial-to-paid conversion, CSV export and manual subscription creation from the backend.
- Automatic renewals with 12 listed gateways, including WooCommerce Stripe, WooPayments, Amazon Pay and YITH’s own Stripe and Braintree plugins.
Limitations
There is no skip-renewal option, no gifting and no cancellation survey on the feature list, and migration support is export-only. The free version’s WordPress.org rating is mixed, with several reviews criticising support response times. Pricing is shown dynamically on yithemes.com rather than in a static table, so confirm the current price at checkout.
YITH Subscription is a good fit for stores already using other YITH plugins, or for subscription-box and physical delivery businesses that want box building and shipping tools in one package.
Best for: Subscription-box and physical-delivery stores, especially those already invested in the YITH plugin ecosystem.
YITH WooCommerce Subscription offers a usable free tier and a premium version with standout subscription-box and delivery tools. Its gaps in skipping, gifting and migration, plus mixed support feedback, make it a better fit for YITH users than for stores needing advanced retention features.
Pros
- Free version covers basic recurring billing with PayPal renewals
- Subscription box builder included in premium
- Delivery scheduling and PDF address lists for physical boxes
- Pause limits by count or days give stores control
- Revenue dashboard with trial conversion metrics
- Works with YITH Membership and YITH payment plugins
Cons
- Free version auto-charges through PayPal only
- No skip-renewal, gifting or cancellation survey
- Export-only; no importer for migrating subscriptions
- Mixed WordPress.org reviews about support speed
- Premium price not shown in a static pricing table
Key features
What YITH WooCommerce Subscription highlights on its WordPress.org page and its own website, split by version.
Free version WordPress.org
- Subscriptions on simple and variable products
- Daily, weekly, monthly or yearly billing
- Optional subscription end date
- Automatic PayPal renewals
- WooCommerce PayPal Payments support
- Subscriptions in My Account
- Custom add-to-cart and checkout labels
- Cart and Checkout blocks support
Pro / paid adds From €199.99/yr
- Free trials and sign-up fees
- Renewal synchronisation to a set day
- Subscription box builder
- Scheduled deliveries and PDF address list
- Pause and suspend with limits
- Upgrade and downgrade between plans
- Failed-payment suspend and cancel rules
- Recurring and sign-up fee coupons
- Revenue and conversion dashboard
- Manual subscription creation in admin
- CSV export of subscriptions
- Subscription Plan Gutenberg block
- 12 gateways for automatic renewals
Feature checklist
18 of 24 features we track in WooCommerce Subscriptions, feature score 82/100
Billing options 7/7
Recurring billing Key
Sell products that renew automatically on a schedule.
Free version sells simple, virtual, downloadable and variable products as subscriptions.
Included
Flexible billing intervals
Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly or custom intervals and lengths.
Daily, weekly, monthly or yearly billing with optional end date in the free plugin.
Included
Free trials
Trial periods before the first payment.
Trial periods are a premium feature.
Paid version Premium
Sign-up fees
One-off fee charged at the start of a subscription.
Sign-up fee with custom label is premium-only.
Paid version Premium
Synchronised renewals
Renew all subscriptions on a fixed day (e.g. the 1st).
Premium syncs renewals to a set day such as the 1st or every Monday.
Paid version Premium
Subscribe & save option Key
Let shoppers choose one-time or subscription on the same product, with a discount.
No one-time/subscribe toggle listed; can be approximated with variation-level plans.
Partial
Variable subscriptions
Subscription options per product variation.
Free version supports variable products for different plans.
Included
Payments & renewals 4/5
Automatic renewal payments Key
Charges saved cards automatically (e.g. via Stripe).
Card auto-renewals via Stripe, WooPayments and others need premium; free is PayPal-only.
Paid version Premium
PayPal renewals
Automatic renewals through PayPal.
Free version auto-charges via PayPal Standard and WooCommerce PayPal Payments.
Included
Manual renewals
Customers pay each renewal invoice manually.
Manual payment of renewal orders is not clearly documented.
Not verified
Failed payment retries
Automatic retry schedule for failed renewals.
Premium sets how failed payments are handled before suspending or cancelling.
Paid version Premium
Renewal & dunning emails
Reminders, failed-payment and expiry emails.
Premium sends renewal reminder and status emails, including for trials.
Paid version Premium
Customer self-service 3/6
Subscription management in My Account Key
Customers view and manage subscriptions in their account.
Customers manage subscriptions from the My Account page in the free version.
Included
Pause & resume
Customers can pause and resume subscriptions.
Premium lets customers pause with limits on number of pauses or days.
Paid version Premium
Skip a renewal
Customers can skip the next shipment or renewal.
Not on the detailed premium feature list; pausing is the closest option.
Not included
Upgrades, downgrades & proration
Switch plan or variation with prorated charges.
Premium lets customers upgrade, downgrade or switch between variation plans.
Paid version Premium
Change payment method / address
Customers update card or shipping details themselves.
Customer payment-method updates are not clearly documented.
Not verified
Cancellation flow & retention
Cancellation reasons or retention offers before cancelling.
Customers can cancel from My Account; no reasons or retention offers listed.
Not included
Admin & compatibility 4/6
Admin create & edit subscriptions
Create or modify subscriptions manually in admin.
Premium can create a subscription from an order and assign it to a user.
Paid version Premium
Subscription reports
MRR, churn, renewals and subscriber reports.
Premium dashboard shows revenue, popular plans and trial conversion.
Paid version Premium
Gifting
Buy a subscription as a gift for someone else.
No gifting option on the premium feature list.
Not included
Import / migration
Import subscriptions from another plugin or platform.
Only CSV export is offered; no subscription importer listed.
Not included
HPOS compatible
Declared compatible with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage.
Changelog includes HPOS-specific fixes since v3.1, indicating HPOS support.
Included
Block checkout compatible
Works with the WooCommerce Cart and Checkout blocks.
Cart and Checkout blocks supported since version 3.0.0.
Included
Pricing
Free
$0On WordPress.org
Free
Freeper yearUnlimited
WordPress.org version; PayPal-only automatic renewals.
Premium (1 site)
€199.99per year1 site
Price loads dynamically on yithemes.com; figure from third-party comparisons, so verify at checkout. 30-day money-back.
Prices are list prices from the vendor's site, checked 14 Oct 2026. Many vendors discount the first year.
How many sites use YITH WooCommerce Subscription?
Free installs from WordPress.org, the vendor's own claim, and our estimate of paid installs.
Free version (WordPress.org)
6K+
Active installations reported by WordPress.org.
Vendor claim
28,668
Paying customers claimed by the vendor. source
Estimated Pro / paid installs
~4.4K
Our estimate, see method below.
How we estimated this: Website scans by WPoptic find the paid plugin (folder yith-woocommerce-subscription-premium) on 1,588 live sites; they find the free version on 3,845 sites against about 6.5K WordPress.org installs, so each site found stands for about 1.7, giving 2.7K. 28,668 paying customers or sales over 11 years; assuming 30% still use it and 1.3 sites per licence gives 11K. About 6.5K free installs x 30% (the usual share of free sites that also run the paid version when many key features are paid, and store owners upgrade more often) gives 2K. Combining these (weighted average) gives about 4.4K. Likely range: 2.9K to 6.6K. This counts sites running the paid version, including sites whose licence has lapsed. Estimates are rough and based on public figures as of 14 Oct 2026.
Stats & health
Weekly downloads
919 downloads last week, 639.4K all time
Rating breakdown
| Version | 4.22.0 |
|---|---|
| Last updated | 7 Oct 2026 (27 days ago) |
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4 |
| Requires | WordPress 6.9+, PHP 8.0+ |
| Support threads (2 months) | 0 of 1 resolved |
| On WordPress.org since | 24 Nov 2015 |
Company & policy
| Paying customers claimed | 28,668 (source, 5 Oct 2026) Customer count shown on the premium product page; likely cumulative purchases. |
|---|---|
| Refund policy | 30-day money-back (source, 5 Oct 2026) |
YITH WooCommerce Subscription compared
WPSubscription/YITH WooCommerce Subscription
Autoship Cloud/YITH WooCommerce Subscription
Flexible Subscriptions/YITH WooCommerce Subscription
Sublium Subscriptions/YITH WooCommerce SubscriptionWoo Subscriptions/YITH WooCommerce Subscription
Subscriptions for WooCommerce (WP Swings)/YITH WooCommerce Subscription
SUMO Subscriptions/YITH WooCommerce Subscription Alternatives to YITH WooCommerce Subscription
Subscriptions for WooCommerce (WP Swings)
Freemium WooCommerce subscription plugin by WP Swings with free trials, sign-up fees and Stripe renewals free, plus switching, gifting and retries in…
93
SUMO Subscriptions
Low-cost CodeCanyon subscription plugin for WooCommerce by Fantastic Plugins with built-in Stripe and PayPal renewals, sync, switching and order subscriptions.
89
WPSubscription
Freemium WooCommerce subscription plugin with Stripe and PayPal renewals in the free version, plus installments and churn tools in Pro.
84
Sublium Subscriptions
FunnelKit's 2026 WooCommerce subscription plugin: recurring, subscribe-and-save and installment plans, with retention and analytics in paid plans.
82
Autoship Cloud
Cloud-hosted subscribe-and-save and scheduled-order service for WooCommerce, run by QPilot, for stores selling replenishable physical products.
80
FAQ
Is YITH WooCommerce Subscription free?
Yes. YITH WooCommerce Subscription has a free version on WordPress.org. Paid plans start at €199.99/yr.
How many sites use YITH WooCommerce Subscription?
WordPress.org reports 6K+ active installations of the free version. We estimate around 4.4K sites run the paid version.
Does YITH WooCommerce Subscription have recurring billing?
Yes: included. Free version sells simple, virtual, downloadable and variable products as subscriptions.
Does YITH WooCommerce Subscription have subscribe & save option?
Yes: partial. No one-time/subscribe toggle listed; can be approximated with variation-level plans.
Does YITH WooCommerce Subscription have automatic renewal payments?
Yes: paid version (Premium). Card auto-renewals via Stripe, WooPayments and others need premium; free is PayPal-only.
Does YITH WooCommerce Subscription have subscription management in my account?
Yes: included. Customers manage subscriptions from the My Account page in the free version.
What does the free YITH Subscription version include?
Recurring billing on simple and variable products, flexible periods, end dates, My Account management and automatic renewals through PayPal only.
Does YITH Subscription work with Stripe?
Yes in premium. Automatic renewals are supported with WooCommerce Stripe, WooPayments and YITH's own Stripe plugins, among others.
Can customers build a subscription box?
Yes, the premium version includes a subscription box module where customers pick the products and quantity in each box.
Can I import subscriptions from Woo Subscriptions?
No importer is listed. Premium can export subscriptions to CSV, but moving subscribers in requires manual creation or custom work.
Last updated 5 Oct 2026. Spotted something wrong? Suggest an edit.