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Flexible Subscriptions — WordPress Membership Plugin

by wpdesk · WordPress.org page · Website

v1.8.4 Tested up to WP 7.1 PHP 7.4+ Paid version available

Flexible Subscriptions has 1,000+ active installs on WordPress.org and 39,102 downloads all time. We have tracked it since September 4, 2026; download trends appear after 30 days of data. The last update was on August 28, 2026, tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Flexible Subscriptions at a glance

Active installs
1,000+
Total downloads
39,102
Downloads, last 30 days
–
available after 30 days of tracking
30-day growth
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tracking since September 4, 2026

Is Flexible Subscriptions well maintained?

Support threads resolved
8 of 8
recent threads on the WordPress.org support forum
WordPress compatibility
Current
tested up to WordPress 7.1, the current release is 7.1

Features

The feature list from the plugin's own readme on WordPress.org, trimmed to the essentials.

  • Install the plugin and activate it
  • Add or edit a WooCommerce product
  • Select “Simple Subscription” or “Variable Subscription” as the product type
  • Set subscription prices, billing intervals, expiration, and optional trial or sign-up fee
  • Publish – and start selling subscriptions instantly!

Flexible Subscriptions reviews and ratings

9 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.

All reviews
4.6 out of 5

9 reviews

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  • Flexible Subscriptions - affordable & easy to use

    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 RemindersFlexible Subscriptions Payment RetryFlexible Subscriptions One-Time Payment Add-onFlexible Refund and Return Order for WooCommerce Also, WPDesk offers other WooCommerce plugins that may be useful for your situation. Here are some:Print Orders and Address Labels WooCommerceFlexible Pricing WooCommerceActive Payments WooCommerceFlexible Product Fields PRO WooCommerceFlexible Checkout Fields PRO WooCommerce 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

    Lucian Mihailescu

  • Great Plug in!

    Perfectly customizable, functional Woocommerce subscription plugin. Great support team! Continuously updated.

    elevenelven2

  • It works well even with Stripe!

    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.

    hugopoiret59

  • plugin that works with excellent support

    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.

    sectorx

  • Excellent plugin and amazing support!

    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

    theNathanBaker

  • Not production ready yet

    Stumbled over this subscription plugin and tested it as I'm looking for a way to offer monthly and annual subscriptions for a service.As this plugin even offers variations for subscription products, I thought it would be the solution. Yet, it turned out the variations do not work as I thought they would. Also, adding variations manually did not work at all.Furthermore, the checkout page gets messed up, though it looks awful (twenty-twenty-one theme). It seems to work fine in the latest twenty-twenty-five theme.On top of it, the plugin seems to conflict with the plugin I use for legal checkboxes on the checkout page.From my point of view, the plugin is not production ready yet. Anyway, it would be great if it works. As it is simple and exactly what I was looking for. I keep it installed on my test website to see how it's evolving.

    mw815371

Where Flexible Subscriptions ranks on WordPress.org

The rankings we track that Flexible Subscriptions appears in, and how its position changed over 30 days.

Ranking WordPress.org placement Position 30 days
Best Membership Plugins #47 by tag, not in search #77 –

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Details

Meet Flexible Subscriptions for WooCommerce. The best & free plugin for recurring payments and subscriptions in WooCommerce.

The full description, screenshots and every review live on the WordPress.org page.

Rankings Flexible Subscriptions competes in

Tags

  • Recurring payments
  • recurring revenue
  • subscription management
  • subscriptions
  • woocommerce

More from wpdesk

Version
1.8.4
Last updated
Aug 28, 2026
First published
Apr 22, 2024
Requires WordPress
6.4
Tested up to
7.1
Requires PHP
7.4
Requires plugins
WooCommerce
Pricing
Free, paid version available

Flexible Subscriptions FAQ

What does Flexible Subscriptions do?

According to its WordPress.org readme, Flexible Subscriptions offers Install the plugin and activate it, Add or edit a WooCommerce product, Select “Simple Subscription” or “Variable Subscription” as the product type, Set subscription prices, billing intervals, expiration, and optional trial or sign-up fee and Publish – and start selling subscriptions instantly!.

How many active installs does Flexible Subscriptions have?

WordPress.org reports 1,000+ active installs for Flexible Subscriptions as of September 7, 2026.

Is Flexible Subscriptions still maintained?

Yes. The last release was on August 28, 2026 and it is tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Does Flexible Subscriptions have good support?

On the WordPress.org forum, 8 of 8 recent support threads for Flexible Subscriptions are marked resolved. That is the developer's free support; a paid version usually comes with its own channel.

Is Flexible Subscriptions free?

Flexible Subscriptions is free to install from WordPress.org. The developer lists it as commercial, so a paid version or paid add-ons exist.

Where does Flexible Subscriptions rank among Membership Plugins?

Flexible Subscriptions is #77 in the WordPress.org Membership Plugins ranking.