Recurring Discounts for Woocommerce Subscriptions

July 14, 2015 10:34am

I’ve covered everything one might need to know about the default setup for coupons in Woocommerce before, but a commenter over there couldn’t figure out how to setup recurring discounts for the Subscriptions plugin / add on to everyone’s favorite e-commerce platform.

Firstly, you’ll need the Woocommerce Subscriptions plugin.

Once you’ve purchased, installed and activated that plugin, go to Woocommerce > Coupons.

In the dropdown list, you’ll now have four more choices:

screenshot showing additional choices for Woocommerce coupons — You can now offer discounts on the signup fees or monthly subscription fees.

Though they’re somewhat self-explanatory, let’s review them quickly:

Sign Up Fee Discount: A specific dollar amount off of any associated signup fees you may have with your subscriptions.
Sign Up Fee % Discount: Same as above, but instead of a fixed amount (like $10 or $5.99) you’ll give them a percentage off, such as 50% off.
Recurring Discount: A set amount (such as $1 or $99.99) off of the monthly subscription fee they pay.
Recurring % Discount: A percentage–such as 30%–off of their monthly subscription fee.

Enjoy!

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Discussion

Elliot Taylor 29 Mar 2016

Any ideas about how to create a discount for the first month only – not the signup fee.

So if £100 per month. The first month is £50 with a coupon?

Thanks

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1. nathan 31 May 2016
  
  Not off the top of my head, Elliot.
  
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2. Joanne Walsh 6 Sep 2016
  
  Hi Elliot,
  
  You’ve likely already discovered the answer but for my site I set up the discount for the first months subscription using the ‘basket discount’ setting – on the image above it says ‘cart discount’ but on my version of woocommerce it’s ‘basket discount’.
  
  Hope you find this of use.
  
  Thanks,
  
  Joanne
  
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Utkarsh 31 Mar 2016

i wanted to know whether this kind of subscriptions
plugin associated with woo commerce which offers recurring local delivery options for example –
a user wants the delivery of breads daily or on specific days of week continuously in a month with single subscription .Is this kind of functionality is available is available in woocommerce subscription plugin . please reply fast

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1. nathan 31 May 2016
  
  I don’t tend to “reply fast”, Utkarsh. What is it that they say, “You can have it fast, good or cheap, pick two.”
  
  Anyway, yeah, that’s exactly what this is for.
  
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  1. Rehan 10 Nov 2016
    
    How can I generate a discount coupon which applies the discount on signup fee as well as recurring amount? I want to have a single coupon does it both in one go, is it possible?
    
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Robert 28 Jan 2017

Question – We are trying to implement a subscriptions coupon that would provide $x discount on a subscription monthly fee and provide the discount for X number of months, rather than just the first month. Suggestions?

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1. nathan 30 Jan 2017
  
  Nothing off the top of my head, Robert, haven’t personally had to face that challenge.
  
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2. Niklas Hellerstedt 20 Oct 2018
  
  Have you found a solution for this?
  
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Hans 10 Apr 2017

Thanks for the tutorial. What I’m looking for is a way to implement something like the first three months a low subscription rate after which the normal rate will go in effect. Something like telecom companies do so often. First three months for 15 a month and then 60 a month, something like that. Can it be done with woocommerce subscriptions, perhaps with some additional plugin?

Thanks, Hans

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1. Dan 24 Apr 2017
  
  Hi Hans
  I am looking for the same solution. If you happen to find anything please let me know. Thanks.
  
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Joan Llompart 19 Jul 2017

Hello,

For those who want to create a discount for the first month only, just use the “Product Discount” or “Product % Discount” and it will be applied only for the first recurring payment.

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1. Tanner 20 Jul 2017
  
  That is what we did Joan. A straight product discount on a subscription item will only discount the first month of the subscription.
  
  We have the same problem as some above:
  We want to offer a 12-month free subscription for a prize winner, we have chosen reoccurring percentage and marked it 100% off. But need to set a deadline to the recurring subscription.
  
  Would this be set in the coupon expiry? Has anyone encountered this?
  
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Clifton Lawson 7 Sep 2017

Nathan, I’ve got a 7 day free trial. Can I have a coupon set up that will apply the discount to the price once the trial is over?

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1. nathan 13 Sep 2017
  
  That’s more or less how it works, Clifton.
  
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Brandon Smith 16 Nov 2017

Hi,

We are trying to add a coupon that takes 10% off of the first recurring payment only – we are struggling to do this however as we have no sign up fee and all of our payments are synchronised to the 24th of the Month.

Can anybody please help?

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Neo 10 Oct 2022

Hi, There is no recuring Discount like you are showing in the screenshot for Woocommerce Subscription Plugin. Only Product discount. Can you please confirm as I need to add a recuring subscription coupon and this is not possible now.

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1. nathan 10 Oct 2022
  
  Are you sure you have Woocommerce’s Subscription plugin installed? It’s definitely in there, if so. If you’re not seeing it, I’d reach out to them to see what’s up.
  
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