Create a Standard Subscription Group

Once a standard subscription group has been created and activated within Bold Subscriptions, a subscription widget will appear on the product page that customers will use to select their options to purchase.

If you would like to remove the One-time purchase only option, you can enable the setting on the product page within Shopify to Only allow purchase of this product as a subscription. This will ensure the product can only be purchased as a subscription.

When a subscription product is added to your customer's cart, they will be able to continue shopping. This means that multiple items can be added to the cart prior to your customer checking out. This is referred to as Multiple Cart Mode, as it allows both subscriptions and one time purchases to be added to the cart and purchased at the same time.

At this time, Single Cart Mode is not available for Shopify's checkout.

The Subscription frequency options allow you to choose how often your recurring orders are generated. These options will be available for your customers to select when they purchase a subscription on your store.

Non-Fixed Subscription Frequency

With non-fixed frequencies, orders will recur based on the day of your customers initial purchase. Because of this, each customer can have a different date at which their order will reoccur.

Daily subscriptions will recur every number of days you select, starting from the time of your customer's initial purchase.

Weekly subscriptions will recur every number of weeks, on the same day of the week that the original order was placed. For example, if an initial order is placed on a Thursday, the recurring order will complete every following Thursday on a weekly basis. If it is placed on a Monday, it will recur every Monday.

Monthly subscriptions will recur every number of months you select, on the same day of the month as the original order. If an order was placed on the 15th, it will recur every month on the 15th. If an order was placed on the 31st, the order for the next month will use the next closest date. For example, an order placed on Jan 31st will recur on feb 28th, or in the case of a leap year, it will recur on the 29th.

Yearly subscriptions will recur every number of years you select, on the month and day that the original order was placed.

Fixed Subscription Frequency

Fixed subscription frequencies are subscriptions that recur at fixed intervals. For example, they could recur each month on the 15th or every week on Monday. This is different from non-fixed subscription frequencies because regardless of when the order was placed, all orders recur at the same time.

When using a fixed subscription frequency, you may want to use cutoff days. This feature is useful to ensure that the recurring order does not take place too soon after the initial subscription purchase on your store.

When using cutoff days, you are able to set a number of days before the recurring order is scheduled as a cutoff time. Initial orders that are created before the cutoff will be included in the upcoming recurring charge date. Orders created after the cutoff time, will not be charged again until the next cycle. The number of cutoff days used will depend on your fulfillment cycle.

The cutoff day controls are available with the respective recurrence type when using the following settings under the Advanced Settings.

You are able to specify a day of the week or month where orders are generated. Advanced options such as RRULES allow for frequencies to match your fulfillment cycles using cut-off days.

For more information on custom frequencies, please visit our RRULES in Bold Subscriptions article.

When creating your subscription, you will be presented with multiple features that can be enabled within the group.

For an explanation of these features and a step-by-step on creating your subscription group, please follow the steps below.

1. Within Bold Subscriptions, select Subscription Groups.

2. Select Create Subscription Group.

3. Enter a Group name.

   Note: This is an internal name, your customers will not see it.

4. Select Select Products.

5. Select the checkbox beside all of the products you'd like to include in the group.

   Note: At this time, digital products will not require a shipping address be entered in the checkout.

6. Select Confirm.

7. Set your Subscription Frequency. Select Days, Weeks, Months or Years.

8. Select Show advanced options.

   There are a few different options to choose from:

   On Purchase Day
   This will cause the customer's subscription to renew based on the first date of their purchase.

   On a Specific Day of the Month
   This will cause the customer's subscription to renew on the same day every month; regardless of their date of purchase.

   Note: If this option is selected, you will see the optional feature to Use cutoff days. For more information on cutoff days, please see What Are Cutoff Days? below in the FAQs.

9. Enter Frequency name.

10. Select Save Frequency.

11. Select Add new frequency and repeat steps 7 - 10 for additional frequency intervals.

12. Select Offer a discount for subscribing. (optional)

    Note: This provides a Subscribe & Save! incentive to your customers. Discounts applied within this area for Bold Subscriptions V2 will be reoccurring on every order for this product.

13. Select Save Changes.

Offer as Subscription only

By default, all products added to the Subscriptions app will be available as recurring purchases, or one-time purchases. Setting the subscription to only allow purchase of this product as a subscription will remove the option for a one-time purchase on the product page widget. 

If you would like your items to be available by subscription only, please follow these steps:

1. Once you're done creating your subscriptions, navigate to the Shopify admin.
2. Select Products > All Products.
3. Find a subscription product.
4. Select Only allow purchase of this product as a subscription.
5. Select Save.