Guide to Baphomart Subscriptions

Baphomart Subscription empowers you to create and sell your own subscription products to your customers. If you are a visual artist, writer, podcaster, musician, educator or any other creative this is a great way to develop a strong relationship and build direct engagement for your loyal customers.

You can use Baphomart Subscription to develop your own recurring income stream through monthly membership payments from your customers.  

Subscriptions products can be virtual, downloadable or physical products such as mail order subscription boxes, digital downloads, courses, artworks, services, and many more subscription-based products.

You can create different subscriptions based on locations and offer variable options, such as sign up fees, trial periods, recurring prices, billing periods and subscription lengths.

Creating a Subscription Product

To create a subscription product, you need to first create a product. After your product is created click on the Edit option below the product name.

You can set two types of subscriptions: Simple and Variable.

Let’s start with Simple Subscription…

Using simple subscription

To set your subscription to simple, select the Simple Subscription product type from the drop-down box. You will get all the options to set up your subscription.

Subscription price

Subscriptions give you a lot of flexibility in scheduling renewals for your subscription products. You can charge renewal payments using a billing period of daily, weekly, monthly and yearly and anything in between.

If you want to charge a fortnightly payment Set the price to every 2nd week.

Want to bill quarterly? Set the price to every 3rd month.

Subscription expiry date

You can set the expiry date of the subscription plan. Subscriptions products with “Never Expire” set in the field can renew indefinitely as long as renewal payments are successful.

For example, consider a one-year newspaper subscription, billed monthly, with a fee of £4/month. Also, the length of the subscription could be 10 months and the billing period would be one month. In the subscription product details, this would be:

Subscription price: £4 every month
Expire after: 10 months

Sign up fee

This sign-up fee is in addition to any recurring amount that you have set for the subscription product. For example, if you create a subscription product for £70 per month with a £100 sign-up fee, the subscription’s initial total during checkout will be £170.

However, when a subscription has a sign-up fee and a free trial, only the sign-up fee is charged at the beginning of the subscription period. If there is no free trial period set on the subscription product with a sign-up fee, the price charged will be:

sign-up fee + recurring first month’s total

Free Trial

This period is added to any length you set for the subscription. For example, if you create a subscription of £5 per month for 6 months with a 1 month free trial period, the subscription will expire after 7 months.

After setting all the fields, click the Save Product button and you will able to view the product.

Using variable subscription

Variable Subscription is like the Variable Product, where variations will be location based. To set up a variable subscription follow these steps:

1. Select the Variable Subscription product type from the Drop-Down menu
2. Click on the Add Attribute button

1. Set the Attribute name, add value options using “|”
2. Click the Save Attribute button
3. Remember to choose the “Used for variations” option.

5. In different product attributes each variation in a Variable Subscription can have a unique:

• Sign-up fee
• Trial period
• Recurring price
• Billing period
• Subscription length

6. Click Save Variations to finish.

Now you can view the product with Variable Subscriptions.

How can I see who has subscribed?

Click on the User Subscriptions button from the sidebar of the dashboard and you will be able to see which subscriptions have been purchased.

Subscription Coupons

A subscription coupon will reduce both the sign-up fee and recurring amount of the subscription, but only for the first payment. For example, a £25/month subscription product with a £50 sign-up fee would normally cost £75 up front, then £25 per month. If a £10 product coupon was applied to the purchase of the subscription product, the subscriber pays only £65 up front, then £25 per month.

Follow these steps to set up a subscription coupon:

1. Click on Coupons from the left sidebar.

2. Select Recurring Product Discount for the Coupon Title and Recurring Product % Discount as your Discount Type, you will see another field open for you Active for x Payments.

3. Fill in this field with a number to make the coupon apply only for that number of payments, including the initial payment. Once the coupon has reached its limited number of payments, it will be automatically removed from the subscription.

That’s it for your Subscription Product. All ready to go!