Overview
When creating your subscription plan, you can choose from different plan types inside your store’s merchant portal.
Currently, Appstle offers four plan types:
Pay As You Go (Auto-Renew)
Prepaid One-Time
Prepaid Auto-Renew
Prepaid (Separate Orders)
Each plan works differently, so let’s review them in detail.
1. Pay As You Go (Auto-Renew)
Customers are charged at regular intervals based on the order frequency.
Example: A customer on a monthly subscription is billed once a month for that month’s order value.
Billing is automatic and continues until the subscription is cancelled by either the merchant or the customer.
2. Prepaid One-Time
Customers pay upfront for multiple upcoming orders in the subscription.
Example: The billing period is 12 months, and the fulfilment frequency is 1 month → the customer pays for 12 monthly deliveries in advance.
This creates 12 fulfillments in Shopify’s Orders section.
The subscription ends automatically after all fulfillments are completed.
3. Prepaid Auto-Renew
It works like Prepaid One-Time but continues automatically after each billing cycle until it is cancelled.
Example: Charge customers every 12 months for the next 12 deliveries.
Creates 12 fulfillments per billing cycle in Shopify Admin.
Continues without interruption unless cancelled.
4. Prepaid (Separate Orders)
Let's merchants set different billing and order fulfilment intervals.
Example: The delivery interval is once per month, and the billing interval is once every three months. → Customers receive products monthly but are billed quarterly.
The system automatically handles billing cycles, order creation, and loyalty discounts.
Free trials are not available for this plan type.
Want to dive deeper? Check out our dedicated article on Prepaid Separate Orders for all the details!
🤝 Need Help?
Have questions or need assistance with any subscription settings?
Our experts are available 24×7×365 to help you.
📧 Email: support@appstle.com
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