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Learn how subscription purchases work—simple, flexible, hassle-free. Your quick guide to buying and managing subscriptions.

What are subscriptions?

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Learn how to use the native PayWhirl for Shopify subscription app. It works seamlessly with Shopify Checkout.

Shopify Subscription App

Quickstart guide and setup instructions for PayWhirl's Shopify app.

Getting started with the PayWhirl subscription app for Shopify

With our Shopify app, you can configure selling groups to give customers extra purchase options for your products

How to Configure a Selling Plan Group

Pricing information for PayWhirl's Shopify subscription app

How does Shopify pricing work?

With our new app, you can attach subscriptions directly to the products and variants in your Shopify store.

How to attach a subscription to a Shopify Product

With prepaid subscriptions, you can create subscription plans that bill and generate orders at different frequencies.

How to configure and manage prepaid subscriptions on Shopify

Prepaid gift subscriptions are a great way to add another purchase option for customers browsing your Shopify store.

How to sell gift subscriptions on Shopify

Setting up local pickup and delivery with PayWhirl is easy and fast.

How local pickup and delivery work for subscriptions with PayWhirl

Learn how to use subscription billing anchors on Shopify. Billing anchors allow you to bill customers on a specific day of the month or week

How to configure subscription billing anchors for Shopify

Shopify requires customers to confirm understanding that they are purchasing a recurring product

How to customize the subscription terms and policies

If you want to change, edit, or translate the text relating to subscriptions, this guide will show you how to do it.

How to customize text or add translations in Shopify

For simplicity, Shopify controls all of the tax rules for subscriptions and they work the same as one time products.

How taxes work with Shopify subscriptions

If you need to modify the shipping rate of a subscription for any reason this guide has some tips/tricks.

Tips and tricks to adjust the subscription shipping rates in Shopify

Detailed instructions for integrating PayWhirl's subscription snippets into your Shopify theme.

Shopify theme installation and troubleshooting guide

Shopify discounts work seamlessly with PayWhirl subscriptions

How do Shopify discount/promo codes work with subscriptions?

Set up automatic shipping discounts for subscriptions

How to Offer Free Shipping Discounts for Subscriptions on Shopify with PayWhirl

Sell Subscriptions In-Person with Shopify POS

These articles go over the basics of getting setup

Setup and Getting Started

You can update customer profiles, shipping addresses, payment methods, adjust billing cycles, pause, skip, cancel, and more.

How to manage PayWhirl subscriptions in Shopify

Customers with Shopify accounts can manage their own subscriptions. They can edit, skip, pause, cancel, update their information, and more.

How do Shopify customers manage their subscriptions?

How to give customers who cancel additional options like skipping an installment, editing their subscription or by offering them a discount.

How to prevent churn with customer cancellation flows from PayWhirl

How to manually create a subscription for a customer using the PayWhirl subscription app for Shopify.

How to subscribe a Shopify customer to a product in your store

How to configure subscription-related email notifications that are automatically sent to your customers.

How to Manage Subscription Notifications in Shopify

Workflows are designed to provide you with unprecedented customization and automation capabilities for managing your subscriptions.

How to modify subscriptions with PayWhirl Workflows

Setting Up Automatic Dunning Rules in PayWhirl for Shopify

How to Manage Failed Payments and Declines in Shopify

Make changes to multiple subscriptions simultaneously. Pause, cancel, or update subscriptions in bulk to save time.

How to Perform Bulk Actions for Subscriptions on Shopify

A quick product swap can help ensure that your pricing is up to date.

How to Update Subscription Pricing by Performing a Product Swap on Shopify

This guide helps you to add a one-time or fixed number of billing cycle product to an existing subscription

Guide to Adding One-Time or Fixed Cycle Payments to Subscriptions

Adjust shipping rates for your existing subscribers in bulk or individually

How to Adjust Shipping Rates for Existing Subscribers

Automatically adjust subscriptions based on stock levels, enabling skipping, continuing, or pausing orders to prevent fulfillment issues.

Inventory management settings in PayWhirl

PayWhirl's subscription tagging features allow you to add or remove customer tags when subscriptions are created, canceled, paused, etc.

How to add or remove Shopify customer and order tags on subscription events

Integrate the PayWhirl customer portal in the Shopify customer account page. Create a seamless experience for subscription management

How to Enable the New PayWhirl Checkout & Customer Portal Extensions for Shopify

Orders with multiple subscriptions will be grouped together as one subscription as long as they share a billing frequency

How does PayWhirl handle orders for customers with multiple subscription products?

How to ensure addressed are automatically updated when customers make changes in shopify.

How to Auto-Sync Shopify Delivery Addresses & Methods

While PayWhirl provides tools to manage and automate subscriptions, Shopify determines how subscription contracts are created during checkout.

How does Shopify handle subscriptions with different selling plans or billing intervals?

How to manage subscriptions, payment issues, notifications, pricing and tags

Managing Subscriptions and Customers

Paywhirl workflows

Learn how you can customize the display of our Shopify widget using CSS

Customizing the PayWhirl Subscription widget for Shopify with CSS

Learn how you can create a subscription buy button on Shopify to add specific subscriptions to the cart using a link.

How to add a subscription product to the cart with a direct link on Shopify

With Shopify app blocks, customizing the PayWhirl plan selector widget has become even easier and more accessible.

How to customize the PayWhirl subscription plan selector in Shopify

Automatically apply a discount code to any checkout in Shopify. This requires coding and may require the help of a developer/theme expert.

How to automatically apply a Shopify discount code to a subscription in the cart

If you've modified your CSS and want to use our new customer portal features, this guide will walk you through the process of migrating.

How to use custom CSS with the new customer portal on Shopify

Progressive discounting helps you reward your customer's loyalty by offering discounts throughout their subscription.

How to Set Up Automatic Milestone Discounts with PayWhirl

Learn how to use PayWhirl subscriptions with Klaviyo's advanced marketing tools to implement powerful email and SMS strategies.

How to send emails and SMS messages with our Klaviyo integration

Add subscriptions to PageFly pages and landing pages with PayWhirl

Add subscriptions to PageFly with PayWhirl

Automatically restrict access to specific pages, collections, or products in Shopify, ensuring only active subscribers can view or purchase.

How to Restrict Content and Grant Access Using PayWhirl & Locksmith

Set custom recurring billing cycles on specific calendar dates or weekdays, making fulfillment easier and more predictable.

Setting up specific dates billing on Shopify with PayWhirl

How to set-up a Post Checkout up-sell by directly linking to another Widget's Checkout from your Original Widgets checkout.

How to create a Post Checkout Up-Sell

Want to translate or customize the shipping method name for subscriptions. This guide walks you through the steps

How to adjust the shipping method text in Shopify emails

Loyalty and referral programs help you retain more customers, increase average order value, and grow through word-of-mouth.

Grow Your Business with Glow Loyalty & PayWhirl

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Customizing PayWhirl on Shopify

How to migrate existing subscriptions, and payment methods from Stripe to Shopify with the new version of PayWhirl for Shopify.

How to connect Stripe to Shopify to migrate existing subscriptions

How to import your existing subscriptions to PayWhirl on Shopify for a seamless customer migration experience.

How to migrate active subscriptions to Shopify in bulk with PayWhirl

Authorize.net credit card payment methods can be easily migrated to Shopify to subscribe your existing customers.

How to import Authorize.net customer payment methods to Shopify

PayPal credit card payment methods can be easily migrated to Shopify to subscribe your existing customers.

How to import PayPal Express customer payment methods to Shopify

Braintree credit card payment methods can be easily migrated to Shopify to subscribe your existing customers.

How to import Braintree customer payment methods to Shopify

Shopify has yet to give app developers the tools to make this process easy

Can I move existing Shopify customers to a new Shopify store?

Importing Subscriptions to PayWhirl on Shopify

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