Why prefer manual recurring payments over automatic payments?

Recurring payments, or recurring billing, are a great option for consistent and steady income. It also helps retain customers. These can include digital downloads, monthly magazines, courses, tutorials, and more. It's easy to renew subscription products.

Now, there are two renewal options – automatic renewals and manual renewals. One of the biggest advantages of having automatic renewals is that payments get automatically debited from the customer’s account.

However, not all payment gateways support automatic recurring payments. Automatic renewals won’t give customers flexibility to change payment methods, shipping methods, or billing and shipping addresses. The situation remains unchanged. And only recurring discount coupons will be applied.

On the other hand, manual WooCommerce recurring payments give full flexibility to customers to choose their preferred payment gateway, shipping method, and billing and shipping address for each renewal. They also enjoy the privilege of applying multiple coupons (product and cart) and paying taxes applicable at the time of renewal.

So if you want a simple solution that does these and a lot more for manual orders, this WooCommerce recurring payments plugin, called WooCommerce Renewals, is an ideal choice.

• • Simple subscription setup: Customers can reorder or make renewal payments manually just like normal payments. Supports both simple and variable product types.
  • Set special price for renewals: Allow more customers to renew their subscriptions by giving them special renewal prices. Customers can renew or reorder both digital and physical products.
  • Freedom to customers: No forced renewals. Customers can renew as per their wish from their ‘My Account’ section.
  • Works with all payment gateways: PayPal, Stripe, Square, credit cards… the plugin works seamlessly with them all.
  • Expiry notice to encourage renewals: The plugin shows an expiry notice under the ‘My Downloads’ section, encouraging customers to renew. Works with expiry in the number of days and number of times.
  • Reorder any product/full order: Allow people to replace an entire order. A full order can be reordered, and renewal prices for all products will be applied. You can choose what products get special pricing.