About this plugin
CorvoWP Subscriptions for WooCommerce adds subscription products, membership access control and subscriber management to WooCommerce.
Create a WooCommerce product, enable it as a subscription, link it to a membership level and choose monthly or yearly billing. After the first successful payment, the plugin creates the subscriber record, grants membership access and tracks the next renewal date.
With Free, renewals are manual. When payment is due, the plugin creates a WooCommerce renewal order and emails the customer a secure pay-for-order link. The customer can pay using any eligible payment gateway available for that WooCommerce order.
Free Features
✅ Monthly and yearly WooCommerce subscription products
✅ Link subscription products to membership levels
✅ Automatic subscriber creation after successful payment
✅ Subscriber and subscription status management
✅ Safe subscriber deletion while preserving WooCommerce order and payment history
✅ WooCommerce renewal orders for manual subscriptions
✅ Secure renewal payment links by email
✅ Advance renewal reminder emails
✅ Overdue renewal reminders
✅ Eligible WooCommerce gateways for manual renewal payments
✅ Membership level management
✅ Restrict pages and posts by membership level
✅ Restrict WooCommerce products by membership level
✅ Restrict supported public custom post types
✅ Restrict categories, product categories and other public taxonomies
✅ Hide classic WordPress menu items by membership level
✅ Hide protected content from supported public listings, search, feeds, REST collections and WordPress core XML sitemaps
✅ Customer subscription summary shortcode: [corvowp_subs_my_subscriptions]
✅ Gateway adapter framework for optional automatic recurring billing add-ons
The Free version is fully functional without a CorvoWP license or Premium add-on.
Premium Add-on
CorvoWP Subscriptions for WooCommerce Premium installs alongside Free and adds automatic recurring payment features.
Premium currently adds:
✅ Automatic PayFast recurring billing
✅ PayFast gateway-scheduled recurring payments
✅ Uses the existing official WooCommerce PayFast merchant configuration
✅ Follows the official PayFast gateway’s Sandbox or Live setting
✅ Verified PayFast payment notification handling
✅ WooCommerce renewal records for successful recurring payments
✅ PayFast subscription status reconciliation
✅ Remote cancellation of supported PayFast subscriptions
✅ Safeguards against duplicate manual and automatic renewal requests
✅ CorvoWP Premium license activation
Learn more about CorvoWP Subscriptions Premium
PayFast Recurring Billing (Premium)
Premium uses PayFast to handle the automatic recurring charge schedule. CorvoWP Subscriptions verifies payment notifications, records successful renewals in WooCommerce and keeps membership access in sync.
The integration does not ask merchants to enter PayFast credentials twice. It reads the Merchant ID, Merchant Key, Security Passphrase and Sandbox/Live setting from the official WooCommerce PayFast gateway.
Automatic PayFast subscriptions currently require the official WooCommerce PayFast gateway, a recurring-enabled PayFast account, ZAR, an eligible simple virtual subscription product and a customer account. Test recurring billing in PayFast Sandbox before going live.
Membership & Access Control
Membership levels determine what active subscribers can access. Multiple subscription products can grant the same membership level, so a monthly and yearly product can provide the same access.
Access Control can restrict:
✅ Pages
✅ Posts
✅ WooCommerce products
✅ Supported public custom post types
✅ Categories and tags
✅ WooCommerce product categories and tags
✅ Other supported public taxonomy archives
✅ Classic WordPress menu items
Access Control protects WordPress content and supported archives. It does not turn uploaded media files into private file storage, so direct media-file URLs may still be accessible.
Getting Started
- Create a membership level under Subscriptions > Membership Levels.
- Create or edit a simple WooCommerce product and set the recurring price as the normal product price.
- Enable Subscription product in Product Data > General, then choose the membership level and monthly or yearly billing interval.
- Leave Renewal payment set to Manual in the Free plugin. Manual renewals create a WooCommerce order and email the customer a secure payment link.
- Use Subscriptions > Access Control to choose which pages, posts, products, taxonomies or classic menu items require an active membership.
- Configure reminder timing and access-denied behaviour under Subscriptions > Settings.
- Place [corvowp_subs_my_subscriptions] on a customer-facing page if you want a dedicated subscription summary outside WooCommerce My Account.
- Run a complete test purchase and manual renewal before accepting live subscribers.
The separate Premium add-on can register automatic recurring billing adapters. PayFast recurring billing is the first supported automatic adapter.
Privacy
CorvoWP Subscriptions stores subscription and membership information locally in the WordPress database. This may include WordPress user IDs, WooCommerce product and order references, membership assignments, subscription status, billing mode, amount, renewal dates and reminder status.
The plugin uses the customer’s WordPress account and email address for membership access and renewal reminders. Payment card details are not stored by CorvoWP Subscriptions.
The Free plugin does not send subscription, customer or licensing data to CorvoWP.
External Services
The Free plugin does not contact CorvoWP or another external service for licensing or core subscription functionality.
When a customer pays a manual renewal order, the WooCommerce payment gateway they select may communicate with its own payment service according to that gateway’s configuration, privacy policy and terms. Those requests are handled by the selected gateway, not by the Free CorvoWP Subscriptions plugin.
The separate Premium add-on communicates with PayFast when its recurring adapter is enabled.
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