Subscriptions

MAJOR Subscriptions now supports external payment methods. External payment methods are payment methods not offered by Elastic Path Subscriptions (such as Elastic Path Payments powered by Stripe or Authorize.net), but they can still be integrated with Subscriptions, giving you more flexibility and choice when selecting payment methods. For more information, see External Payments.

MINOR In Subscriptions, you can now import your subscription offerings, as well as products, plans, and subscribers. For more information, see Subscription Imports.

MINOR In Subscriptions, you can now filter your offerings by proration policy ID. This is useful if you want to understand the offerings affected when updating or deleting a proration policy. For more information, see List Offerings.

MINOR For a subscription with a pending state, you can now configure a go_live_after date. This is useful as it ensures both the subscription provider and subscriber are clear about when a subscription officially begins. For more information, see Creating a pending subscription.

MINOR Subscriptions use client credentials to enable changes to subscriptions, providing you with the flexibility to change your subscribers subscriptions at any time. For more information, see Proration Policies.

MINOR In Subscriptions, we can now have a subscription status of Pending. This is useful as it allows subscriptions to be imported without the risk of the original platform and the Elastic Path Subscriptions platform processing payments for the same billing period. For more information, see Subscription Imports.

MAJOR Proration and Dunning are now available for subscriptions.

• Proration is the adjustment of charges or credits on a subscribers account based on the amount of time a service is used. Proration ensures that subscribers are only charged for the actual time they use the service, whether they upgrade, downgrade, start, or cancel their subscription partway through a billing cycle. This means fair billing for your subscribers and provides you with the flexibility to change your subscribers subscriptions at any time. For more information, see Proration Policies.
• Dunning rules describe the process for collecting outstanding payments for recurring subscriptions and what action is taken after the defined number of payment attempts have failed to successfully take payment. For example, if a customer's payment fails, Subscriptions automatically retries the payment up to X times over Y days, reducing churn and increasing revenue recovery. For more information, see Dunning Rules.

MINOR In Subscriptions, a new card_id attribute is available. You can use the card_id and customer_id attributes to program your front-end implementation to allow your preferred payment service provider to update a subscription with new card details, enabling you to easily manage your subscription charges. For more information, see Card Declines.

MAJOR Subscriptions now supports collecting payments using Authorize.Net. For more information, see Using Authorize.Net.

MINOR You can now track your Subscriptions billing, payment and tax operations using reports, allowing you to manage your finances more effectively. For more information, see Billing, Tax & Payment Reports.

MAJOR In Subscriptions, events are now observable. Events are actions that occur in Subscriptions such as a subscriber changing their address or a subscription changing from active to inactive. This enables you to integrate Subscriptions with external systems like enterprise resource planning, fulfilment and other systems. For more information, see Subscriptions API Documentation.

MINOR When adding subscriptions to a cart, you can now add tax items, allowing you to separate tax from the price of a subscription. For more information, see Add Subscription to a Cart.

MAJOR Elastic Path Subscriptions is now available. Elastic Path Subscriptions allows you to offer your customers subscriptions and recurring billing for your products and services. Elastic Path Subscriptions gives you the flexibility to pause, update, or reactivate your subscription offerings, change billing cycles, and apply discounts. You can create subscriptions using the Elastic Path Subscriptions API or Commerce Manager. For more information see Subscriptions.