Do you want to create a subscription plan that expires automatically after a certain amount of time?
Ongoing lets you create subscription plans that expire after a certain amount of billing cycles.
The customer is still allowed to cancel at anytime during that period.
Usage
Create a gift subscriptions so people can buy a product for someone else
Create a subscription plan that ends after a certain amount of time
Let's customers opt out any time, within the time frame
Benefits
Broaden your subscription product offerings with gift subscription products
Automatically stops recurring charges after a specified period of time
Give customer flexibility to pause or cancel their subscription
Earn more money with prepaid gift subscriptions
✅ You can create a new product on Shopify just for gift subscriptions, if you want.
⭐️ RECOMMENDED: Prepaid Gift Subscription Example
Sally wants to offer a 3 month gift subscription (Prepaid).
The plan will end after 3 months.
Delivery is monthly & billing will be 3 months paid upfront.
Delivery every 1 month, & Billing every 3 months.
Sally sets up a subscription plan, and clicks Show Advanced.
She checks the box "This plan should expire automatically".
In this example, it will expire after 1 billing cycle.
1 billing cycle is 3 months, so we want it to end after 1 billing cycle.
Pay Per Delivery Gift Subscription Example
Sally wants to offer a 3 month gift subscription (Pay Per Delivery).
The plan will end after 3 months.
The customer can cancel or pause their subscription within the first 3 months.
Delivery & billing will both be monthly.
Delivery every 1 month, & Billing every 1 month.
Sally sets up a subscription plan, and clicks Show Advanced.
She checks the box "This plan should expire automatically".
In this example, it will expire after 3 billing cycle.
Since customer is billed monthly and she wants it to end after 3 months, that would be 3 billing cycles.
Having issues or seeing errors?
If you are seeing an error message when you try to add a gift subscription plan, this means you are creating duplicate plans.
For example, you can't have a 3 month subscription plan and a 3 month gift subscription plan in the same subscription group.
✅ How to Fix: Create a new subscription group just for the gift subscription plans.
Read our blog article "Ongoing Launches Gift Subscriptions" here.