Creating a subscription product

To create a subscription product, you first have to purchase and install the WooCommerce Subscriptions extension. Once you do, you'll see a new option on the edit product page.

Select Simple subscription although you can also choose Variable subscription, which is very similar to variable products. When you select a subscription product, you'll see new fields:

As you can see, there are a ton of options. You can select the following:

• How often you want to bill people (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, yearly, twice annually, and so on)
• When the subscription should expire—if ever
• Whether there's a free trial or conversely whether there's a signup fee
• Of course, a price

When you take a look at the frontend, the interface has totally changed to show all of our options to the visitor:

Let's see how to add a recurring payment option for the users in the following section.