For WooCommerce stores

WooCommerce Subscriptions Plugin: build your own, pay once

Sell a product that customers pay for every week, month or year. Describe it and Ora builds a WooCommerce subscriptions plugin for your store.

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

Example: your subscription product
Monthly coffee box
24 / month
7-day free trial · 5 sign-up fee
Every month
Subscribe
Illustration only. Your plugin follows your own rules.

What your Subscriptions plugin does

A focused WooCommerce subscriptions plugin. A product renews on the schedule you set, with an optional free trial and sign-up fee.

Billing schedule
Charge weekly, monthly or yearly with automatic renewals.
Trial and sign-up fee
Add a free trial period and a one-time fee at the start.
Customer controls
Customers can pause or cancel from My Account.
One settings page
Its own item in your WordPress admin menu, so options are easy to find and change.
Good to know: It covers the core of a subscription: schedule, trial, fee and self-service. It needs a payment gateway that supports saved cards. Prorating plan switches and advanced dunning are separate builds.

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

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

Example request
I sell a monthly coffee box. Charge 24 a month with a 7-day free trial and a 5 sign-up fee. Retry failed payments after 3 days, and let customers pause or cancel in My Account.
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Here is the plan:
  • Coffee box billed monthly at 24
  • 7-day free trial and a 5 sign-up fee
  • Failed payment retried after 3 days
  • Pause and cancel buttons in My Account
  • A settings page in its own menu in your WordPress admin
Complex build · $39 once
In this build: Switching between plans with prorated charges is not in this plan. Reports and tax filing exports are left out.
Want more? Add it to your request:
  • Renewal date sync. Charge all subscribers on the 1st of every month.
  • Renewal reminders. Email customers three days before each renewal.
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 Subscriptions

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

1. Define the plans
Price, billing period, free trial and sign up fee for each product.
2. Set the rules
What happens when a payment fails, how customers pause or cancel, and renewal emails.
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 plan on the practice site, then force a renewal and a cancellation and check the orders.
Common snags:

No yearly fee for your WooCommerce Subscriptions 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 Subscriptions 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.

Monthly box
Sell my product as a monthly subscription with automatic renewals.
Free trial
Add a 14-day free trial to my yearly plan.
Self-service
Let customers pause or cancel their subscription from My Account.

Questions

Is there a free WooCommerce subscriptions plugin?

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

Which payment gateways work?

Any gateway that can save a customer's payment method for later charges. Ora will check yours.

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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Describe your Subscriptions plugin. See it working on a practice store.

$1 trial on a practice site. No yearly renewal.

Build mine · $1 trial