1. Mollie Support
  2. Connect Mollie to a website
  3. Pre-built integrations
  4. Mollie for WooCommerce
  5. WooCommerce: Set up subscriptions

WooCommerce: Understand subscriptions

Explore how Mollie supports recurring payments for regular billing.

Tip

  • Minimize chargeback risk by clearly communicating the amount and frequency of charges 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 make an initial payment with a supported payment method. By doing so, they authorise payments for future instalments of their subscription.

If your customer initially paid with a credit/debit card, they will make all subsequent payments by credit/debit card. If they paid with any other payment method, all future payments will be made through 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/CBC Payment Button

  • SOFORT Banking

Supported features

Mollie supports these features offered by WooCommerce Subscriptions:

  • Synchronise renewals

  • Retry failed payments

  • Switch subscriptions

  • Suspend subscriptions

  • WooCommerce: Cancel subscriptions

  • Reactivate subscriptions

  • Manage multiple subscriptions

  • Manage recurring total charges

  • Change the payment date

  • Change the payment method (merchants only)

    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.

  • Pay for renewal

  • Change the address for one subscription

  • Change the address for all subscriptions

  • Resubscribe

  • Enable early renewals

  • Set next payment date after early renewal

  • Enable automatic renewal

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