Create a subscription from the admin panel
Onboard a customer manually — build a subscription from scratch in the admin with full control over product, schedule, trial, and billing details.
- Add New in admin
- Full schedule control
- Starts Pending → Active
Sometimes you need to create a subscription by hand — migrating a customer, setting up a deal, or fixing an edge case. ArraySubs adds an Add New flow under ArraySubs → Subscriptions with a five-section form: customer, product & schedule, trial, different renewal price, and billing/shipping addresses. The subscription is created as Pending; you then set it Active to start billing. This recipe walks the flow.
- Create a subscription manually for any registered customer.
- Override amount, schedule, trial, and renewal price as needed.
- Capture billing and shipping addresses on creation.
- Starts Pending; activate it to begin renewals.
The exact configuration
Enter these values and you have the setup live. Every field maps to a real ArraySubs setting.
| Setting | Value |
|---|---|
| WhereAdmin | ArraySubs → Subscriptions → Add New |
| Required fieldsCreate Subscription form | Customer · Subscription Product · Quantity · Recurring Amount · Billing Interval/Period |
| Auto-filled from productCreate Subscription form | Amount, interval, period, length, trial, signup fee, renewal price (overridable) |
| Created statusBehaviour | Pending (set to Active to start billing) |
When to use this setup
Set it up in 4 steps
A step-by-step guide drawn from the ArraySubs user manual. Open the linked page for the full walkthrough and screenshots.
Open the create form
Go to ArraySubs → Subscriptions and click Add New. Requires Admin or Shop Manager and at least one published subscription product.
Subscription OperationsPick customer, product, and schedule
Search the customer, choose the subscription product (and variation), set quantity, recurring amount, billing interval and period. Product fields auto-fill and are overridable.
Subscription OperationsAdd trial, renewal price, and addresses
Optionally set a trial, a different renewal price after N payments, the invoice email, and billing/shipping addresses.
Subscription OperationsCreate, then activate
Save to create it as Pending, then open it and change status to Active to schedule the first renewal.
Lifecycle Management
This recipe is built from these ArraySubs user-manual guides:
Notes & edge cases
Modules behind this recipe
The ArraySubs modules this setup relies on.
Manage Subscriptions
The central admin hub for viewing, creating, editing, exporting, and managing every subscription record.
Subscription Products
Create and manage simple or variable subscription products with trials, signup fees, plan logic, and lifecycle behavior.
Related setups to explore
Other configurations you can build with the same modules.
Edit a subscription from admin
Update a subscription’s invoice email, billing/shipping addresses, and status from the admin edit screen.
Cancel, hold, resume & expire
Drive a subscription through its lifecycle from admin — cancel (now or end-of-period), undo, put on hold, reactivate.
Notes & payment timeline
Keep a per-subscription record — system events, private admin notes, and customer-visible notes on one timeline.
Questions, answered
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