Subscriptions PRO

Recurring billing for memberships and subscription boxes, self-managed from the account page.

Category: Checkout · Enable at: Ambikly → Add-ons → Subscriptions

What it does

Any product with a billing period becomes a subscription: when the order is paid, a subscription is created per line with its period, interval, cycle limit, trial and next payment date. An hourly job claims due subscriptions atomically, creates a renewal order and charges through the gateway’s renewal method — Stripe today — with configurable retries. Customers cancel, pause and resume from their account.

Capabilities

• Hourly renewal job with an atomic claim — overlapping runs can’t double-charge
• Automatic renewals through Stripe; other gateways are hidden when a cart contains a subscription
• Configurable retry attempts, hours between retries, and cancel-after-failure
• Renewal success and failure emails, each toggleable
• Soft cancel (runs out the paid period), immediate cancel, pause and resume
• Month and year advances clamped to the last valid day
• Renewal orders tagged so they never spawn new subscriptions
• Deleting a customer cancels their active subscriptions

Turn it on

1. Make sure Ambikly Pro is active and your license is activated under Ambikly → Settings → License.
2. Go to Ambikly → Add-ons, find Subscriptions and switch it on. There is nothing else to install.
3. Open its settings panel and set the options listed below.
4. Visit your storefront to confirm the new surface appears: “subscriptions” account tab — status, next payment, amount, cancel.

Settings

Open the add-on's settings panel from Ambikly → Add-ons → Subscriptions.

• Failed-payment retry attempts
• Hours between retries
• Cancel after all retries fail
• Email customer on successful renewal
• Email customer on failed renewal

Where it appears

On the storefront

• “Subscriptions” account tab — status, next payment, amount, cancel
• Renewal succeeded and renewal failed emails

In the admin

• Subscriptions list with status and customer filters
• Subscription detail with renewal history
• Force a renewal charge now

Third-party services

This add-on talks to:

• Stripe off-session charges

You supply your own credentials; they are stored on your server and masked in the admin. Nothing is proxied through Ambikly.

For developers

REST routes

• GET /ambikly-pro/v1/subscriptions
• GET /ambikly-pro/v1/subscriptions/{id}
• POST /ambikly-pro/v1/subscriptions/{id}/cancel
• POST /ambikly-pro/v1/subscriptions/{id}/pause
• POST /ambikly-pro/v1/subscriptions/{id}/resume
• POST /ambikly-pro/v1/subscriptions/{id}/charge

Every route enforces the same capability checks as the rest of the API — see the REST API guide.

Core hooks it listens to

• ambikly_pro_subscriptions_tick
• ambikly_order_paid
• ambikly_customer_deleted
• ambikly_account_tabs
• rest_api_init

The full list is in the hooks reference.

Questions

Who owns the renewal schedule?

Ambikly does — the schedule is driven by the plugin’s own job, which keeps the add-on gateway-agnostic.

Which payment methods renew automatically?

Stripe. PayPal and the offline methods leave renewals pending so you can invoice manually.

What does Cancel do for the customer?

By default a soft cancel: access continues until the end of the paid period. Staff can cancel immediately.

Works well with

Store Credit Wallet · Software Licensing Pro · CRM Sync

Turning it off

Switch the add-on off from Ambikly → Add-ons. Its settings and data stay in the database, so turning it back on restores exactly what you had. A lapsed license pauses it the same way — the store keeps selling on the free core, and nothing is deleted.

PROSubscriptions is part of Ambikly Pro

One license covers all 35 add-ons — $199 a year or $549 once for a single site. Nothing here is sold separately.

See pricing →