Asteris Subscriptions – Recurring Payments & Subscriptions for WooCommerce
by Asteris Commerce
Asteris Subscriptions is genuinely free recurring billing for WooCommerce. It focuses on the thing that actually costs subscription stores money: renewals that silently fail.
Free features
- Self-healing renewal engine — an idempotent claim lock (no double charges) + a watchdog that re-queues any renewal the WordPress queue silently drops, with a WP-Cron fallback.
- Your own Stripe checkout — cards collected under your Stripe account (Stripe Elements, classic + block checkout) and charged off-session for renewals. No separate Stripe plugin required.
- Customer self-service — cancel / pause / resume and a one-click card-update flow from My Account.
- Basic MRR + at-risk dashboard — see your recurring revenue and overdue renewals at a glance.
- Compliance by default — click-to-cancel + an EU Withdrawal Button during the 14-day window.
- No transaction fees. We never take a cut of your subscriptions.
Upgrade to Pro
The paid edition adds the revenue-recovery and growth features: smart-retry dunning with branded recovery emails, full Insights (churn, LTV, recovered revenue), card-expiry reminders, and subscription switching & proration. Details: asterisforwoocommerce.com/subscriptions
This plugin requires WooCommerce.
External services
This plugin connects to Stripe to process payments. It is required for taking card payments and charging subscription renewals.
- What it sends: at checkout and on each renewal, the plugin sends the order amount, currency, a customer/payment-method reference, and order/subscription identifiers to Stripe’s API (https://api.stripe.com). Card details are collected directly by Stripe’s hosted Elements script loaded from https://js.stripe.com and are never seen by this plugin or your server.
- When: at checkout, on each renewal, on card updates, and when verifying incoming Stripe webhooks.
- Provider: Stripe Payments. Terms: https://stripe.com/legal — Privacy: https://stripe.com/privacy
No data is sent to Stripe until you configure Stripe API keys and enable the gateway. This free edition does not contact any Asteris server.
Screenshots
The Subscriptions dashboard — live MRR and at-risk renewals, with the watchdog's silent-drop recoveries, right inside WordPress.
Your subscriptions list — filter and search every subscription, with one-click management.
The renewal log — full observability into every renewal, recovery and failure event.
Settings — connect your own Stripe account in seconds; no separate Stripe plugin required.
Turn any product into a subscription — billing interval, free trial and sign-up fee on the product screen.