How to create subscription service?

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June 4, 2016, 5:08 am

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How to create subscription service?

If you ever wanted to create subscription service for sale at Seoclerks and not sure what is it, how it work or how to set it up, read following tutorial.

What is subscription service?
It is service which should be periodically done again and again until you or your buyer cancel subscription. It can be set (as you see on screenshot below) to following recurring periods:

Once a day
Once a week
Every two weeks
Once a month
Once a year

Example:
If you selling webhosting packages and for example want to charge your customer every month for it, then you can set up "once a month" option. In that case, you will receive payment from your customer every month (until it's canceled).
In some other cases then webhosting you may be need to do your work again and again, for example provide 100 backlinks every month, then you have to do it every month and you will be automatically paid for it every month while your customer is also automatically charged for it every month.

It's recommended to write in your sales description if the payment is periodical subscription so you don't get in troubles with customers if they not know about it!

How to set up subscription service?

How to create subscription service?

From explanation above and screenshot it's self explanatory i guess. So be careful to set your subscription period correctly and your buyer will be charged amount you set in price of your service every time it occur as per your setting.

Be careful and don't use this option unless you can provide your service on time every time it occurs.

Find out how to Cancel a Subscription Service on SEOClerks

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TommyCarey

If anyone is reading this and plans on doing a subscription type service, please have it set up for monthly payments.

There aren't many people/service providers out there offering 1 day, 1 week, 2 week, yearly subscription terms for their services. I think this is because they norm is set by the big companies such as Netflix, Amazon, and such. I know this is an SEO and Marketing forum and I used 2 websites that are not, but you get the idea

How to create subscription service?

Setting your subscription service to anything but 1 month (30 days) will probably lower your sales since everyone is expecting to pay monthly.

Now I've never offered a subscription type service to random clients, we've always went over the terms prior to purchasing and if they wanted to do bi-monthly (twice a month) payments I'd let them do that. But 99% of the clients I have prefer to do the monthly payments and nothing else because it's less book keeping for their accountants I would assume.

Thanks,

Razzy

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idealmike

Thanks Raz! Is this the same with PayPal then? I have a service that would be better suited to once a week rather than once a month. Have set it to monthly now just in case but don't weekly subscriptions work just as well with PayPal as any other length of subscription?

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TommyCarey

I'd say bi-weekly and monthly payments would work best.

Bi-weekly payments would work well because people can pay you similar to how they're doing payroll. Or if they're already working a 9 to 5 they can align their payments with the subscription so that they are sure they can pay you.

Monthly payments are also good because people can put it into their monthly bills like the water bill, gas bill, electricity bill, phone bill, car bill, etc.

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EliteWriter

Thanks for sharing this. I had not idea about it actually. It would be helpful if I discuss this with some of the clients who order on a regular basis, as they do not have to create a new service every time then? It will be sort of a recurring order that charges them automatically right?

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anwebservices

Well if you have frequent orders from returning buyer i guess they wouldn't mind to save some time by turning it in subscription service. And YES, it it recurring order that charges them automatically in periods as you set

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idealmike

Hi anweb thanks for posting this! I've not previously sold a service with subscription but was just now setting one up and wanted to make one of my older services available by subscription as well as sold individually like normal as well so that subscription is only "optional" for the buyer. Is it possible to do that so that they can optionally subscribe only if they wish to when checking out? I notice that I can only sell that service as a subscriptions service but not as both a subscription and a once-only service as well. Is it not possible to do that?

I think it would be cool if that was possible. And then just have a checkbox on the order details page which they can tick to subscribe instead of just making a one off payment but only as an option. Wouldn't that make more sense do you think abid?

#featurerequest I think

How to create subscription service?

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mary

If I sell gig with extra, if possible set recurring just for an extra gig ? or recurring just for the main gig without extra Even if the client buys with extra gig?

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