A selling plan defines how a product can be purchased on subscription: cadence, discount, trial, anchor behavior. Selling plans live in Shopify; recurrabee’s console is the merchant-facing editor.
1. Open the selling plans view
recurrabee console → Plans.
2. Create a selling plan group
A group is a bundle of related plans (e.g., “Monthly / Bi-monthly / Quarterly” for a supplement). Create the group with a name and description.
3. Add plans
Within the group, add individual plans:
- Cadence:
P1M(monthly),P14D(every 2 weeks), etc. recurrabee validates the ISO-8601 duration format. - Discount: optional; percentage, fixed amount, or fixed price per delivery.
- Trial: optional; free days before the first billing.
- Anchor: optional; snap deliveries to a day-of-month or day-of-week.
4. Attach to products
Each plan group is attached to one or more products. In the Products tab of the group, select the products (and optionally specific variants) that should be eligible.
Attached products immediately show a “Subscribe and save” option on the storefront (pending your theme’s support for selling plans — most Shopify 2.0 themes already render it).
5. Test
From an anonymous browser, visit a product page, pick the subscription option, and check out. Confirm:
- The order is tagged as a subscription.
- A contract is visible in recurrabee console within seconds.
- The next billing date matches the plan’s cadence.
Common patterns
- Save X% with subscription. A single plan with a percentage discount. Low-friction.
- Build a box. A plan with no discount but a curated bundle — sells on convenience.
- Replenishment with trial. 14-day free trial, then monthly. Useful for CPG.
Edge cases
- Free shipping on subscriptions. Configured via Shopify’s standard shipping rules, not in the plan itself.
- Mid-cycle swaps. Handled by the recurrabee state machine — see the managing contracts guide.