Meet Flexible Subscriptions for WooCommerce. The best & free plugin for recurring payments and subscriptions in WooCommerce.
As of April 2026, Flexible Subscriptions is a WordPress reorder plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 9 reviews. It has been downloaded 24K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.4+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2024. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are down 70% this week. Support resolution rate: 100%. Top alternative: Rearrange Products for WooCommerce.
★★★★★
💡 Fully compatible with the new WooCommerce Checkout Block!
Flexible Subscriptions has been updated by our developers to fully support the latest WooCommerce checkout experience.
Your subscription products now work smoothly with the new, faster, and conversion-optimized Checkout flow — no extra setup required.
Stay compatible with upcoming WooCommerce features and updates.
Do you want to sell subscriptions in WooCommerce?
The Flexible Subscriptions for WooCommerce plugin lets you:
– Sell WooCommerce products as subscriptions (choose a simple or variable subscription)
– Implement recurring payments in WooCommerce (including Stripe and PayPal)
– Offer rental or service-based products w…
When I looked for an accesible alternative to WooCommerce Subscriptions, I found Flexible Subscriptions from WPDesk to be easy to install and use, and much more affordable. The core plugin is free. Then you may need to add an add-on for email reminders, for the inactive/cancelled subscriptions. Many other add-ons are available:
Flexible Subscriptions Email Reminders
Flexible Subscriptions Payment Retry
Flexible Subscriptions One-Time Payment Add-on
Flexible Refund and Return Order for WooCommerce
Also, WPDesk offers other WooCommerce plugins that may be useful for your situation. Here are some:
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Flexible Product Fields PRO WooCommerce
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It is much cheaper to get a BUNDLE of 20 plugins for $99/year. Their support is one of a kind, with quick replies, and great tehnical knowledge. Thank you, Krzysztof!
I warmly recommend WPDesk for your work with WooCommerce Subscriptions!
Lucian
Perfectly customizable, functional Woocommerce subscription plugin. Great support team! Continuously updated.
After spending two days tearing my hair out testing multiple plugins to configure my subscriptions, this one finally works! Great job, I might even get one of your add-ons.
I have tired multiple subscription plugins as alternative to official WC Subscription plugin. These plugins either did not work properly or support was poor, or both. Finally stumbled upon Flexible Subscriptions. I have to say it’s plugin what that works and support is great. I use it with WooCommerce PayPal Payments.
I’d welcome paid PRO version with WC emails (subscription created, cancelled, etc..) , option to cancel subscription immediately, priority support. Paid add-ons – I do not need any of them. Nevertheless I purchased one to support this plugin and get paid support.
I think it would be good to have free version and PRO version with all paid add-ons/extra features included. This is how all other subscription plugins have it and I think it makes sense.
Many thanks and keep up a good work.
I’ve never written a review for a WordPress plugin before. However, after my experience with wpdesk, I felt like it was the least I can do.
First, the plugin itself works as expected. Unlike all the many other subscription plugins, it actually handles subscriptions in a way that meets the needs of my specific use-case. Configuration of subscription products in Woocommerce was intuitive and simple. Again, unlike many other plugins it did not over-complicate the process. I have not had any issues at all with the functionality and performance of the plugin.
However, what really compelled me to take the time to write this review is the amazingly impressive quality of support I received for an issue I did have. Short version: when using Woocommerce + Easy Payments PayPal gateway + Flexible Subscriptions, there is an issue that prevents any of the payment methods from displaying on the checkout page.
I reached out to Flexible Subscriptions support to see if they could help fix the issue. They quickly found out the cause as well as a short-fix work-around. The quick fix was to use the classic woo commerce checkout page rather than the newer block-based checkout page. The cause is that while the payment methods are registering correctly in the API, the UI doesn’t display them in the block based template (and it appears that is a fix required by the Easy Payments team). Sidenote: I think the Easy Payments PayPal Gateway plugin is by far the easiest and best plugin to integrate PayPal for Woocommerce. It’s reliable and I don’t have every other transaction failing (like it does with the official PayPal plugin).
Not only did the support at Flexible Subscriptions provide an immediate solution for me (using the free version), but they pro-actively reached out to the team at Easy Payments to work on better compatibility. THEN they followed up with me 3 weeks later just to keep me in the loop.
I’m thoroughly impressed with wpdesk. I can’t speak to anyone else’s experience with them, but my experience has been great. I have no affiliations with wpdesk other than being a happy user of the free version of their plugin.
| WordPress | 6.4+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
| Dependencies | woocommerce |
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