Milo Subscriptions is a free subscriptions plugin for WooCommerce, built on modern WordPress. The free core handles recurring billing, free trials, sign-up fees, and plan switching with proration. Customers manage their own plans in My Account. Mixed carts and the WooCommerce Blocks checkout work out of the box. Not running WooCommerce? A built-in standalone mode sells recurring plans on any WordPress site, with no store, products, or cart required.
The core plugin, completely free:
- Subscription product type with daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, or custom billing intervals
- Free trials and one-time sign-up fees
- Mixed carts – subscription products and one-off products in the same checkout
- Plan switching with prorated charges and credits
- Variable subscription products
- Customer self-service portal in My Account: cancel, pause, resume, update payment method
- WooCommerce Blocks checkout fully supported
- Subscription Health Check that automatically scans for broken subscriptions (expired payment methods, stale gateway tokens, drifted renewal dates)
- Built-in migrator that imports existing WooCommerce Subscriptions data
- Modern admin with subscriptions that are sortable, filterable, and searchable
- REST API for core subscription management (list, create, update, status, notes, renewals, bulk actions, and more)
- HPOS (High-Performance Order Storage) compatible
- Standalone mode: sell subscriptions and recurring plans without WooCommerce (plans, subscribe blocks and shortcodes, a customer portal, and gateway webhooks)
- Available in 17 languages, fully translation-ready (Arabic, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Simplified Chinese)
Payments
Milo Subscriptions takes subscription payments through the free Milo Payments plugin. It connects PayPal, Stripe, Mollie, and Square in one admin. Already using another gateway, like Authorize.Net, Braintree, or GoCardless? The Any Gateway add-on lets subscriptions check out with any recurring-capable gateway you already have.
Sell subscriptions without WooCommerce (standalone mode)
No WooCommerce store? Milo Subscriptions runs on its own. Turn on standalone mode and take recurring payments on any WordPress site, with no products or cart. It is a complete way to sell recurring plans on WordPress without WooCommerce.
- Create subscription plans with their own price, billing interval, and free trial
- Add a subscribe button to any page with a block or shortcode
- Recurring billing through Stripe, PayPal, Mollie, and Square (via the free Milo Payments plugin), driven by secure gateway webhooks
- A customer portal where subscribers manage, pause, or cancel their plan
- Subscription emails, analytics (MRR and active subscribers), and GDPR export and erase built in
Leave standalone mode off and Milo behaves like a classic WooCommerce subscriptions plugin. Same plugin, your choice.
42 premium add-ons, one ecosystem
Milo Subscriptions handles the fundamentals. When your store needs more, 42 premium add-ons cover the whole subscription journey, available individually or all together in the All Add-ons Bundle. Browse them from the in-plugin marketplace (Subscriptions > Add-ons) or on milosubscriptions.com.
Billing flexibility
- Subscription Coupons – recurring discounts and prepayment incentives
- All Products for Subscriptions – add a Subscribe & Save option to existing products
- Payment Plans – split a purchase into a fixed number of installments
- Trials Pro – free or paid trials with one-trial-per-customer protection
- Scheduled Start Dates – customers pick when billing begins
- Store Credit – balances that pay renewals automatically
- Gift Cards – sell codes that redeem into store credit
- Invoices – sequential invoice numbers, printable invoices, VAT field
- Any Gateway – subscription checkout with any recurring-capable gateway
- Stripe Bridge – recurring billing through the official WooCommerce Stripe gateway, made for WCS migrations
Retention and lifecycle
- Failed Payment Retry – smart retry schedules that recover real revenue
- Cancellation Flows – pause or discount offers before a cancellation goes through
- Winback – automated come-back campaigns with one-click resubscribe
- Onboarding – welcome email sequences that kill early churn
- NPS – one-click satisfaction surveys, detractor alerts
- Loyalty – points on every payment, redeemable on renewals
- Compliance – consent proof, pre-renewal notices, one-click cancel links, audit trail
Growth and marketing
- Referrals – subscriber referral links with two-sided rewards
- Affiliates – partner program with recurring commissions on renewals
- Social Proof – live subscriber counters and "someone just subscribed" toasts
- Pricing Tables – current-plan-aware pricing tables as a block or shortcode
- Waitlist – capacity-limited products with automatic FIFO invitations
- Gifting – let customers buy subscriptions for someone else
Physical subscriptions and fulfillment
- Box Builder – mix-and-match boxes customers fill and edit each cycle
- Fulfillment – shipments screen, aggregated pick lists, packing slips, tracking
- Stock Management – reserve inventory for active subscribers
- Split Shipping – one subscription order, multiple addresses
- Calendar – private renewal/delivery calendar feeds and a merchant schedule
- Age Check – date-of-birth verification for age-restricted subscriptions
Access, teams, and community
- Memberships – restrict content, products, and downloads by active subscription
- Teams – one subscription, multiple seats, manager-invited members
- Transfer – move a subscription to a new owner, history intact
- Discord – automatic subscriber roles on your Discord server
- Download Limits – cap downloadable file access by subscription status
- Pass – QR member passes scanned at the door, verified live
- License Server – sell software licenses with keys, activations, updates, and GitHub release sync
Insights and operations
- Advanced Analytics – MRR, churn, LTV, retention cohorts, forecasts
- Webhooks – signed event deliveries with retries for any integration
- Slack – subscription events in your team channel as they happen
- Milo TV – a live full-screen dashboard for the office TV
- Gravity Forms – sell subscriptions through Gravity Forms
- Digest – a periodic email summary of your subscription business
Learn more at milosubscriptions.com.
External Services
Milo Subscriptions connects to milosubscriptions.com, in two situations:
1. Anonymous usage tracking (opt-in, off by default). If you enable "Usage tracking" in the plugin settings, Milo Subscriptions sends an anonymized weekly report to our website. This is disabled by default and never runs unless you turn it on. The report contains no personal data: plugin, WordPress, PHP, and WooCommerce versions; locale, currency, and store base country; a one-way hash of your site URL; aggregate subscription counts and MRR; the payment gateways and billing periods in use; and which Milo add-ons are active. It is sent once per week while enabled, and stops when you disable the setting.
2. Downloading the free Milo Payments plugin (on demand). When you choose to install Milo Payments from the plugin's admin, the plugin file is fetched from our website. This request only happens when you click to install and sends no data beyond a standard download request.
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