Simply create a button (or use a webhook in your CRM) to allow users to initiate a subscription management action.
At the end of this article, you’ll find a few use cases to inspire you and help you make the most of this feature.
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How to Set Up a Subscription Management Button
Step 1: Create New Custom Operation: Subscription action
In AccessAlly > Settings > Custom Operations, click on the “Add New Operation” button.
You can name the operation, then select the Subscription action option under “Choose what this operation will do”.
Step 2: Configure the Subscription Action
In the Configure the subscription action area, you’ll first want to select the subscription products that you’d like to be controlled by this custom operation.
Once the products are selected, you’ll choose the action that should be performed from the dropdown:
- Cancel (removes access at the end of the period)
- Revoke (immediately removes access)
- Pause (does not remove access but stops future payments)
- Add payment credits (skip the future payments)
Note that these options all correspond to the Subscription Management options available in the Sales area.
Optionally, you can also designate another custom operation to be run once this one is initiated. (For example, you might want to run an “add a tag” operation that triggers a notification email so you know when a user has canceled their subscription.)
Step 3: Configure front end display
In this area, you can customize how the button appears on the page:
The webhook is for an alternate setup, where the subscription management action takes place inside a CRM automation. This could be useful if you wanted to trigger a cancelation when there is a failed payment, or after a certain period of time.
Step 4. SAVE
As always, please make sure to click on the “save changes” button before exiting the page or moving onto the next step.
Step 5. Add the button to a page
Now, you can add the new custom operation to a page using the shortcode adder, which you will find on any WordPress admin page in top bar under AccessAlly:
Then select the “Custom Operation” you just created, and copy & paste the shortcode into any WordPress page or builder.
If you are using a webhook to trigger this automation, you can create the automation and run the webhook instead of adding the button to a page.
How to Use the Subscription Management Features for Your Business
Cancel (removes access at the end of the period)
Use cancel subscription custom operation to allow your members to cancel their subscriptions right inside your membership site.
This operation can help reduce the number of customer service inquiries your team handles and manually processes for cancellation requests.
Use AccessAlly Pro to win back your cancellations requests with a win-back campaign. Find out how to set this up here.
Revoke (immediately removes access)
Use the revoke access custom operation to remove access to specified courses within your membership site. This operation is useful to run as part of a cancellation request. When a member cancels, you may also want to remove access to a bonus course that you granted access to as part of your offer.
Pause (does not remove access but stops future payments)
The pause subscription custom operation should be used to prevent ALL future payments. This operation will not remove access to your membership, but no additional payments will be taken.
This operation could be used to allow members to maintain access to the programs and training they have already completed with their membership, but no future trainings or materials when they want to cancel their account.
Or it can be used to allow members to pause their subscription without making a payment and then resuming later.
Add payment credits (skip the future payments)
This custom operation can be used to give a credit to someone’s payments, while still allowing members to retain access to the programs and trainings they signed up for.
Payments will not accumulate or process during this time. After the specified period of time, payments will resume at the original subscription rate.
This option is great for members who may not have had the opportunity to take advantage of the content they have been paying for. By adding a specified number of credits you can skip upcoming payments for the amount of time you decide is appropriate, and resume when they have had the chance to catch up with the materials.
