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WooCommerce Subscription Minimum Period Plugin: build your own, pay once

Set a minimum term and stop subscribers cancelling early. Describe it and Ora builds a WooCommerce subscription minimum period plugin for your store.

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Try it on a practice WooCommerce site for 7 days with 2 free changes. Pay from $9 once only if you keep it.

Example: minimum term
Cancel available from 12 Jan
PlanSupport
Minimum3 payments
Can cancel from12 Jan
Save term
Illustration only. Your plugin follows your own rules.

What your Subscription Minimum Period plugin does

A focused plugin that hides the cancel button until a subscriber has completed a minimum number of billing periods.

Set the term
A minimum number of billing periods per product, such as three months.
Block early cancel
Hide or disable the cancel button until the term is done.
Clear messages
Show customers the date they can cancel from.
One settings page
Its own item in your WordPress admin menu, so options are easy to find and change.
Good to know: It stops customers cancelling in their account. You can still cancel on their behalf. Early exit fees are a separate build.

Tell Ora what you need. Check the plan before you pay.

Describe your WooCommerce Subscription Minimum Period Plugin in your own words. Ora replies with a plan and a price. Nothing is built until you approve it.

Example request
My software support plan needs a three month minimum. Hide the cancel button until three payments are made, show the date they can cancel and email me if someone asks to cancel early.
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Here is the plan:
  • Three payment minimum on the support plan
  • Cancel button hidden until the term ends
  • Date shown in the customer account
  • A settings page in its own menu in your WordPress admin
Standard build · $19 once
In this build: Early exit fees and contract documents are not in this plan.
Want more? Add it to your request:
  • Cancellation fee. Charge a fee when someone cancels early.
  • Pause instead. Offer a pause in place of cancelling.
Add these to my request and get a quote
Ora builds it together with the plugin and the quote goes up to match. You see the new price before you pay. One plugin never costs more than $39. If it needs more than one plugin, Ora quotes each one. Or add it later as a separate build.

How to set up Subscription Minimum Period

Here is how to get a Subscription Minimum Period plugin from idea to working plugin on your site. Most of the work is a few decisions, and these steps walk through them.

1. Choose the term
Set the minimum in billing periods or a date, per product. Longer terms need clear wording on the product page.
2. Decide what customers see
The message under the cancel button and in the account, and who gets an email when someone tries to cancel early.
3. Describe it to Ora
Paste your own version of the example request on this page, or start from one of the examples, and change the details. Ora replies with a plan and a price, and nothing is built until you approve it.
4. Test on the practice site
Buy a test subscription on the practice site, open the account and check cancel is hidden, then move the dates forward and check it appears.
Common snags:

No yearly fee for your WooCommerce Subscription Minimum Period Plugin

Looking for an alternative to the paid WooCommerce Subscriptions extension from WooCommerce? It lists at $279 a year. Your own version is a one-off.

the paid WooCommerce Subscriptions extension from WooCommerce
$279 / year
After 1 year$279
After 3 years$837
Your own WooCommerce Subscription Minimum Period Plugin on Pluginora
$19–$39 once
After 1 yearthe same
After 3 yearsthe same
Includes5 free changes

Paid plugin price is the list price for one site, as shown on the seller's site in October 2026. The price of your build depends on its size. Ora quotes it before you pay. The paid product may do more than the plugin described above.

Start from an example

Pick one to open the builder with it filled in, then change anything you like.

Three month minimum
Stop cancellation for the first three billing periods.
Show cancel date
Tell customers the first date they can cancel.
Alert me
Email me when someone asks to cancel early.

Questions

Is there a free WooCommerce Subscription Minimum Period plugin?

Free ones may exist. Build your own when you want exact behavior and nothing extra.

Is a minimum term allowed?

Many places allow it if you tell customers clearly before they buy. Check consumer rules where you sell, and show the term on the product page.

Can I still cancel for a customer?

Yes. The limit only applies to the customer cancel button.

Do I need WooCommerce?

Yes. This plugin is built for WooCommerce stores and works with your products and payment gateway. You don't need to buy the paid WooCommerce Subscriptions extension from WooCommerce.

Can I get a refund?

The trial fee is refunded automatically if a build fails. A purchased plugin can be refunded within 14 days if it doesn't do what the approved plan said and Ora can't fix it, as long as it hasn't been downloaded or installed.

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