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This tutorial is geared for a subscription website that keeps content or services behind a paywall and asks customers to pay a recurring fee for access.

In this example let's imagine a basic scenario of a subscription website (language courses for example). We will be setting up three levels of memberships: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced (access to learning material will be according to the selected level), also three billing plans will be available: 3 months, 6 months, 12 months

Step-by-step guide:

One simple way to get this setup would be to create a virtual product 'Language Courses' with configurable options: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

  1. Creating "'Language Courses" product

  • Product Name: Language Courses

  • SKU: language-courses

  • Price: $9 (original price)

  • Click on the Advanced Inventory link

    1. Change Manage Stock to "No"

    2. Click Done

  • Create configurations:

Beginner - 9$

Intermediate - 14$

Advanced - 19$

  • our basic product setup is complete

2. Enable Subscriptions

  • Navigate to MPOWER - Configuration – General

  • Enable recurring subscription

3. Setup Billing Frequency (how to set up a billing frequency)

  • Navigate to MPOWER - Configuration – Billing Frequency

  • Add new billing frequency (3 months, 6 months, 12 months)

4. Open previously created product Scroll down to the Subscription Options section and open it

  • Scroll down to the Subscription Options section and open it

  • Available For: Recurring Purchase Only

  • Click on the ‘Manage’ button for opening Recurring Options Management

  • Step 1: Select attributes - Set to No all attributes

  • Step 2: Recurring Settings

    Is Trial Offered - NO

    Start Date - Moment of purchase

    Lock Product Price - NO

    Unlock Preset Qty - NO

    Hide Qty - YES

    Savings Calculation - YES

    Infinite Subscriptions - NO

  • Step 3: Billing Frequencies - Click on Add New button three times and select correspond Billing Frequency (3 months, 6 months, 12 months)

  • Step 4: Summary

  • Click Next and Save

  • At this point subscription product (parent) setup is complete

5. Next, we need to add all child products we've created from configuration options to the same billing frequencies

  • Open child simple product (Beginner)

  • Scroll down to the Subscription Options section and open it

  • Available For: set to "Recurring Purchase Only"

  • Click on the ‘Manage’ button for opening Recurring Options Management

  • Step 1: Recurring Settings

Is Trial Offered - NO

Start Date - Moment of purchase

Lock Product Price - NO

Unlock Preset Qty - NO

Hide Qty - YES

Savings Calculation - YES

Infinite Subscriptions - NO

  • Step 2: Billing Frequencies - Click on Add New button three times and select correspond Billing Frequency (3 months, 6 months, 12 months) and specify prices
    3 months - $27

6 months - $45

12 months - $75

  • Step 3: Summary

  • Click Next and Save

  • At this point subscription product (child) setup is complete (repeat for all child products related to our configurable product)

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