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Bartosz Gajewski

Enhancer for WooCommerce Subscriptions

Updated: March 10, 2023 / Plugin Tutorials

Offering products with weekly or monthly payments is a great way to boost your store and gives you a lot of options. In this article, I’ll show how to sell more with custom fields for WooCommerce Subscriptions with the free plugin (enhancer for your products)! Let's begin!

The subscription business model is getting more and more popular around the world. It’s very convenient for both customers and store owners. Some product categories are perfect to offer subscriptions.

But how to customize your WooCommerce products including subscriptions?

WooCommerce core doesn’t offer that kind of product, but you can use a powerful & free plugin.

Table of contents

  • Subscriptions in WooCommerce
  • Enhancer for WooCommerce Subscriptions
  • Summary & more about custom fields

Subscriptions in WooCommerce

💡 First, you need a proper plugin to handle subscriptions. There are few plugins on the market, but I recommend WooCommerce Subscriptions. It costs, but it gives you a lot of options and it comes with built-in support for PayPal payment methods. You can read more about PayPal configuration in the official plugin documentation.

How to add subscription products in WooCommerce?

When you have it all configured, just go to the product you want to sell as a subscription. In my example, it’ll be WooCommerce → Products → Diet Catering. On the edit page, go to the settings below the product description. In Product Data choose Simple subscription like in the screenshot below.

Simple subscription product in WooCommerce
Product Data - Simple Subscription settings

Here you can set the Subscription price and choose the payment period. The plugin allows you to set a Sign-up fee for the first payment and offer a Free trial if you want. Of course, you can also set the Sale price and schedule it.

It’s pretty simple and if you have configured it well, it should look something like my example ⤵️⤵️⤵️.

Simple product subcription: Catering
Diet catering example in WooCommerce

Enhancer for WooCommerce Subscriptions

That example looks fine, but what if you want to offer something more complex? You have two options. If you want to offer different types of catering and you’ll charge differently for every type, you should use variable subscriptions. You can add a few variable products and let the customers choose them. Once again, you can find more about it in the official documentation.

➡️ In my example, I’ll use the second option - extra product fields. It gives you more options and doesn’t add new data to the store’s database.

When it comes to extra product fields, I always choose the Flexible Product Fields plugin. It’s an excellent alternative for variable products that gives you a lot of options. You can add many types of available custom fields, even in the free version of the plugin.

Download the free enhancer for WooCommerce Subscriptions!

Flexible Product Fields WooCommerce

Enhancer for WooCommerce Subscriptions. Add multiple extra custom product add-ons, and combine them with extra pricing for fields and conditional logic.

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Also, see the short presentation of the plugin features.

Extra product fields (free)

✅ Ok, let's add some options to my example. I think, that the best option for customers is the possibility to decide on which day they want to start their catering. With the Flexible Product Fields free plugin, it’s really simple.

Just go to WooCommerce → Products → Product Fields and add a new Fields group.

Adding new fields group in Flexible Product Fields for WooCommerce
Add a new fields group and select products

Enter the name of the new Fields group, set Assign this group to one Product and select the product. In my case, it's Diet Catering that I showed you earlier.

Date picker: The custom start date for WooCommerce Subscriptions (PRO)

I will show you now how to add the Date picker for your subscriptions.

This field is available in the PRO version of Flexible Product Fields. The free version gives you 20 free field types. The PRO adds the date and file upload fields.

🗓️ Now, choose the Date picker field, provide any label, and Add field. Here you can set the field. Set Label and placeholder and set this field as Required.

Add the date picker field to set custom start date for WooCommerce subscriptions
Date picker field, Label and Add Field button: Flexible Product Fields

In the General tab, set the field as Required.

Custom start date for WooCommerce Subscriptions

💡 Read more about WooCommerce Extra Product Options.

Select the type of product (free)

🥗  The second thing I want to add to make an advanced subscription product in WooCommerce is a Select type of product field.

✅  Just like you did before: Choose the Select field type, provide a Label, and Add field. Then, add some options. In my example, it looks like this:

Custom fields for WooCommerce Subscriptions with the free enhancer

💡 Flexible Product Fields PRO lets you additionally add extra pricing to extra product fields, as well as conditional logic.

Advanced subscription products in WooCommerce - Diet Catering enhanced

It's time to find out how it looks in my store 🙂.

🗓️  When I go to the Diet Catering product in my WooCommerce shop I can pick the start date of the catering.

Date field in diet catering example

🥗  Another option is to choose the type of catering.

Select field in diet catering example

It looks good 😉. Of course, you can edit it in CSS to make it look even better and adjust it to your store.

💡 Do you need some help with CSS styling? Read our guide on how to customize elements with CSS.

Summary & more about custom fields

In this article, I showed you how to add advanced subscription products in WooCommerce. Also, how to use Flexible Product Fields as the Enhancer for WooCommerce Subscriptions and selling customizable products!

I hope that now you can offer more for your customers to boost your sales. Good luck!

Flexible Product Fields PRO WooCommerce £59

Enhancer for WooCommerce Subscriptions. Add multiple extra custom product add-ons, and combine them with extra pricing for fields and conditional logic.

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Bartosz Gajewski

Content Specialist in WP Desk. He tries to increase the number of plugin users with useful content. Privately an enthusiast of mountains and European cinema.

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