WooCommerce: Set up subscriptions

Explore how Mollie supports recurring payments for regular billing.

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Tip

• Minimize chargeback risk by clearly communicating the charge amount and frequency to your customers.
• Ensure customer awareness by sending advance notifications before each payment, for example via email.

Native WooCommerce subscriptions module

Mollie supports subscriptions through WooCommerce's own built-in subscriptions module.

Supported payment methods

Customers who buy a subscription from your shop must use a supported payment method to make their initial payment. This authorizes future subscription payments as well.

• Credit/Debit cards: If your customer initially pays with a credit/debit card, all subsequent payments will be by credit/debit card as well.
• Other payment methods: If your customer initially pays with any other payment method, all subsequent payments will be by SEPA Direct Debit.

Your customers can use these payment methods for the initial subscription payment:

• Apple Pay
• Bancontact
• Belfius pay button
• Credit/debit cards
• EPS
• Giropay
• iDEAL
• KBC payment button
• SOFORT bank transfer

Supported WooCommerce Subscriptions features

Mollie supports these features offered by WooCommerce Subscriptions:

• Synchronise renewals
• Retry failed payments
• Suspend, switch, cancel and reactivate subscriptions
• Manage multiple subscriptions and recurring total charges
• Change the payment date or method (merchants only)
• Change the address for one or all subscription
• Resubscribe
• Enable automatic or early renewals and set next payment date

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Note

Customers can also change the payment method but only when they make a manual payment and any of these circumstances apply:

• Early renewal
• Renewal status is "pending renewal order"
• Renewal payment fails

Customers cannot change the payment method for an entire subscription. To use a different payment method, they must cancel the current subscription and re-subscribe at the end of the term.