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How to Create & Manage Flexible Subscription Plans with Magento 2
aheadWorks, awarded Most Innovative Extension Developer at Magento Imagine 2016, have just released another extension for the Magento 2 platform into the wild. As the tin says, the brand-new Subscription and Recurring Payments (SARP) allows you to create and manage subscription plans as well as accept recurring payments for both products and services.
To get things rolling you can even offer trial periods with discounted prices for individual products. Also you can set the number of trial periods for every subscription plan.
Purchase SARP for Magento 2 from just $499 »
Features
The module comes with loads of features. For your convenience, we have listed the highlights below.
Subscription Product
- Payment methods: PayPal only (for the initial release)
- Option to buy any (existing) product as a subscription
- Promotion of subscriptions via trial persiods
- Automatic order placement in Magento once customers are charged
- Option to specify initial fees
- Subscription button discount
- Multistore support
Subscription Management
- Admin subscription grid with subscription, order & customer details
- Support of bundle & configurable products
- Flexible subscription periods, e.g. daily, weekly or X time intervals
- Intuitive subscription management UI
- Shared subscription plans
- Mass subscription updates
- Unlimited number of subscription plans
Customer Experience
- Secure subscriptions
- Dedicated subscription cart
- Transparent checkout process (also with multiple products)
- Mobile-friendly
- Plan descriptions can be enriched via HTML tags & images
- Custom subscription start date selected by customers
- Subscription dashboard: Option to suspend or cancel active plans
- Option to edit both billing & shipping address
- Support of guest subscriptions
If you are not satisfied with PayPal being the only method of payment for recurring payments, check out aheadWorks’ roadmap. Soon they are planning to support AuthorizeNET, Braintree and Stripe. Also multiple payment methods per store will be available as well as more flexibibily in terms of plan adjustments and additional product settings.
Pricing, Support & Updates
Subscription & Recurring Payments for Magento 2 can be purchased for just $499 for the Community edition and $1,499 for the Enterprise version. Upon purchase you will receive free updates and support for 180 days (CE) and 360 days (EE). You will also receive a free installation and a Personal Account Manager.
You might also be interested in the aheadWorks M2 Pack Builder which allows to save up to 55% off the regular price.
Existing customers of SARP for Magento 1 can migrate to Magento 2 at half price.
aheadWorks are providing an installation guide, user manual and a knowledge base as well as a 45 day money-back guarantee.
Purchase SARP for Magento 2 from just $499 »
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