Product Subscriptions

Make their next order a regular thing.

Turn the products customers replenish into subscriptions with their own Customer Portal. Offer a saving, set the schedule, and fulfil repeat orders in the store you already run. All built into YNS.

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An open bag of roasted whole coffee beans, seen from above — Try a purchase option · Illustrative prices before tax and shipping

Same favourite. A reason to subscribe.

Give regular buyers a clear choice: buy once, or subscribe at a lower price. Attach plans to your existing products, so the saving and delivery rhythm are visible where customers already shop.

House Blend · 250 g

A monthly coffee refill, for example

~~$20~~$18 per delivery

10% off saves $2 on each bag. Illustrative prices before tax and shipping.

Recurring orders · Built into YNS

The next order comes to you.

When a renewal payment succeeds, YNS creates an order in your existing order workflow and sends the customer an order confirmation. Your team picks, packs, and ships it as usual.

Illustrative renewal · One bag at $18.00 · Example tax and shipping: $0.00

Customer Portal · Built into YNS

Give subscribers a place of their own.

A Customer Portal brings their subscription, next renewal, and account controls together. Customers can pause, resume, or cancel themselves, and see what’s in their next curated box when you’ve published it.

Illustrative Customer Portal · A paused subscription shows Resume Subscription.

Subscriber benefits · Customer Portal

Make being a subscriber worth more.

Give subscribers special promotions and a dedicated mini-store with selected products at better prices. It’s all in their Customer Portal, alongside their subscription, so they have a place to discover their benefits and shop your offers.

Illustrative subscriber offers · Prices before tax and shipping

Another way to subscribe · Curated boxes

A fresh selection. One price per box.

For discovery subscriptions, you choose what goes into each box. Publish the contents for each billing period at a fixed subscription price; customers see the current selection and what’s coming next when announced.

Hands placing a wrapped package into a cardboard box on a wooden table — Illustrative curated box · $32.00 before tax and shipping · Contents chosen by the merchant

Keep the next box published before its period begins. Each order records the contents for its billing period, ready for your team to pack.

Ask Elliot AI

Or just describe the plan to Elliot.

Elliot works through the same store API as the admin. Say which products should carry a plan and on what terms, and it creates the plan and attaches the products, ready for you to review under Subscriptions in Manage.

Add an Every 2 weeks plan at 12% off to every coffee product, with the benefit First access to new roasts.

Created the plan Every 2 weeks: renews every 2 weeks at 12% off the one-time price.
Attached it to all 6 products in the Coffee category. Their existing plans stay as they are.
Added the benefit First access to new roasts. It shows under the plan on each product page.

House Blend now offers $20.00 once, $18.00 every month or $17.60 every 2 weeks. Set the plan inactive under Subscriptions › Plans whenever you want to stop offering it.

Illustrative conversation with fictional data. Elliot asks before anything irreversible, and every change shows up in Manage.

What this replaces.

Product Subscriptions in YNS is part of the platform, not an app on top of it. Here is how the usual stacks line up for a brand selling products people replenish.

Platform

Shopify stack: Basic, Grow or Advanced, plus a subscriptions app.
WooCommerce stack: WooCommerce is free. Hosting, maintenance and updates are on you.
YNS: Growth from $90/mo; subscriptions are not on Starter. 0% transaction fees; only Stripe's processing fees apply.

Subscription tooling

Shopify stack: Recharge from $99/mo + 1.49% + 19¢ per transaction. Appstle from free to $100/mo by subscription revenue. Shopify's own app is free with Shopify Payments, PayPal Express, Authorize.net, Adyen or Stripe.
WooCommerce stack: WooCommerce Subscriptions at $279/yr, plus a payment gateway that supports automatic renewals.
YNS: Product Subscriptions: $75/mo + 0.75% + 10¢ on Growth, $50/mo + 0.75% + 10¢ on Pro, included on Managed.

Curated boxes

Shopify stack: Build-a-box comes with the higher app tiers; Shopify's own app is built for subscribe-and-save.
WooCommerce stack: Not part of the core extension; rotating contents need another plugin or manual edits.
YNS: Rolling subscriptions: publish each period's box at one price and every renewal order records that period's contents. Built in.

What customers change themselves

Shopify stack: Pause, skip, swap and reschedule, depending on the app and tier.
WooCommerce stack: Switch, suspend, cancel and resubscribe from My Account.
YNS: Pause, resume and cancel from the Customer Portal; cards updated through Stripe's billing portal. No skip or swap yet.

Renewals

Shopify stack: The app charges the saved card and creates the renewal order in Shopify.
WooCommerce stack: The gateway charges the renewal; the extension creates the order.
YNS: Stripe charges the renewal; each successful payment becomes a normal YNS order with the usual confirmation.

You need	Shopify stack	WooCommerce stack	YNS
Platform	Basic, Grow or Advanced, plus a subscriptions app.	WooCommerce is free. Hosting, maintenance and updates are on you.	Growth from $90/mo; subscriptions are not on Starter. 0% transaction fees; only Stripe's processing fees apply.
Subscription tooling	Recharge from $99/mo + 1.49% + 19¢ per transaction. Appstle from free to $100/mo by subscription revenue. Shopify's own app is free with Shopify Payments, PayPal Express, Authorize.net, Adyen or Stripe.	WooCommerce Subscriptions at $279/yr, plus a payment gateway that supports automatic renewals.	Product Subscriptions: $75/mo + 0.75% + 10¢ on Growth, $50/mo + 0.75% + 10¢ on Pro, included on Managed.
Curated boxes	Build-a-box comes with the higher app tiers; Shopify's own app is built for subscribe-and-save.	Not part of the core extension; rotating contents need another plugin or manual edits.	Rolling subscriptions: publish each period's box at one price and every renewal order records that period's contents. Built in.
What customers change themselves	Pause, skip, swap and reschedule, depending on the app and tier.	Switch, suspend, cancel and resubscribe from My Account.	Pause, resume and cancel from the Customer Portal; cards updated through Stripe's billing portal. No skip or swap yet.
Renewals	The app charges the saved card and creates the renewal order in Shopify.	The gateway charges the renewal; the extension creates the order.	Stripe charges the renewal; each successful payment becomes a normal YNS order with the usual confirmation.

Checked 9 September 2026 against the pages linked below. Your costs depend on plan, region and what you already run.

If you sell one subscribe-and-save product and use an eligible gateway, Shopify's free app or Appstle's free tier may be all you need.

App prices are the vendors' monthly rates on the check date; WooCommerce Subscriptions is the single-site annual rate. The YNS figure is the Growth plan plus the Product Subscriptions add-on, billed monthly.

Good to know

Will it fit the way you sell?

Which schedules can I offer?

Set a weekly or monthly cadence and the number of weeks or months between renewals. Offer several plans on a product, such as every month or every two months, and choose the percentage saving for each plan.

What can customers change themselves?

From their account, customers can pause, resume, or cancel immediately or at the end of the billing period. They can also reverse a scheduled cancellation. Skipping individual deliveries, swapping products, and changing quantities or renewal dates are not available in the customer interface.

How are recurring payments collected?

Connect Stripe to collect recurring payments using the payment method set up at checkout. Customers can open Stripe’s billing portal from their account to update their payment method. A successful renewal payment creates an order in YNS; a failed payment is recorded against the subscription.

Can customers add one-time purchases too?

Yes. A cart can mix several subscriptions with one-time products, and the customer pays once. Subscriptions on the same schedule renew together as one delivery with one shipping charge. The one-time products are part of the initial purchase and do not repeat on renewal. Customers sign in to complete a subscription purchase and manage it afterwards.

See your next repeat order in YNS.

Open a store and attach a plan to a product in minutes, or bring a product and the schedule you have in mind to a demo. We’ll walk through subscribing, renewing, and the Customer Portal together.