stripe recurring payments

Hi Webziss,

This is a good question, and one I haven’t seen before! I did some digging, and it looks like while Stripe supports WooCommerce Subscriptions (that is, Stripe will continue to bill properly when your customers have a WooCommerce Subscription), WooCommerce doesn’t support Stripe subscriptions. I have a couple links for you to look at here:
https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/stripe/?_ga=1.1296049.1847262562.1482433701#section-17

https://stripe.com/subscriptions

Stripe can do the leg work for a site, but the way that the WooCommerce dashboard is set up, it is designed to keep that subscription information on WooCommerce; however, the way Stripe does it is to keep that information on the Stripe dashboard – WooCommerce wouldn’t know that you have a customer with a subscription, in other words.

Now, that’s not to say you couldn’t contract with a developer (such as a Woo Expert to make this work – there are advantages and disadvantages; for example, we wouldn’t be able to help you support that integration, but you’d have a dedicated developer to help you.

A possible route forward is to look into how much it might cost you to have this set up and coded for you, and compare that to the price of Subscriptions. My inclination is to use WooCommerce Subscriptions, because it’s a tested, highly rated plugin (and comes with guaranteed support).

I hope that helps!

ZandyRing ,

Thank you for your detailed answer , I really appreciate that.

I am starting to understand the situation , and considering to buy the Woocommerce Subscription plugin.

As I understand , it is also supports paypal right? cause my customer has both of this payment methods on his site.

I also want to be sure that I will be able to make it possible to split the total price. the idea is to let the customer choose the amount of the split he wants before he hits the “place order” button and continues to the payment method. and then to create the subscription dynamically I guess? because the recurring payments will be based on the product he chose and the amount of the splits , and not from an existing subscription.

I hope I explained my self in the right way….
And thank you so much for your help! ??

Hi Webziss!

Subscriptions does support PayPal, but you may want to encourage your customer to use additional payment gateways – PayPal will work just fine however.

To your other question about whether the site customer can enter her own price at checkout, no, out of the box, Subscriptions doesn’t support that feature. You can read a bit more from the FAQs here about unsupported features.

It may be possible to contract with a developer to get something special built, as I mentioned above, so if you end up finding you need a developer anyway, you may want to step back and decide if having the developer build out something to integrate Stripe’s Subscription API instead.