Setting Up Subscriptions

In this chapter we will look more into setting up subscriptions in your woocommerce site and connect & automate them in infusionsoft.

InfusedWoo has its own built-in subscription feature that connects with infusionsoft. Using this feature you can set some of your woocommerce products to subscriptions and tie this to Infusionsoft subscriptions.

Alternatively, you can also use the Woocommerce Subscriptions plugin and still integrate with infusionsoft.

Setting up subscriptions is a bit more complicated compared to setting up one-time products and this is one reason why a whole chapter is dedicated for this.

Unlike one-time products where you only trigger actions when they are purchased, in subscriptions you have to make sure the following are setup:

• Purchase Actions - Trigger actions when a subscription is purchased. E.g. give access to content.
• Payment Failure Actions - Trigger actions when the recurring payment fails. E.g. temporarily remove access to a content, or trigger task to customer support to contact customer.
• Payment Success Action - Trigger actions when payment is successful. E.g. re-activate access to content.

Note that payment success action is different to the purchase action. Purchase action is only triggered right after they have purchased the subscription (first payment). While payment success action is triggered when the charge failed at some point and customers next payment succeeds.

Implementing these action triggers will be explained in depth in the next sections and in these sections, two methods will be shown - either by using InfusedWoo's subscription module or using the woocommerce subscription plugin.

Let's first look into how to create subscriptions in your woocommerce site.