Subi Subscriptions vs WooCommerce

Subi Subscriptions is a Shopify app for recurring commerce, bringing subscriptions, memberships, bundles, subscription boxes, and loyalty programs together. Merchants can set subscription discounts, billing and shipping intervals, and prepaid or pay-as-you-go plans. Memberships can include tiers, gated content, perks, member-only discounts, and free trials. Bundle options include fixed bundles, build-a-box, and mystery boxes, with inventory syncing for bundle products. Subscribers can manage plans, payments, and addresses in a self-service portal, including skipping, pausing, swapping, or cancelling. Payment recovery includes decline-aware retries, dunning emails, and one-click card updates. Listed integrations include Klaviyo, Shopify Flow, Mailchimp, Attentive, Postscript, Triple Whale, and ReferralCandy. A free plan is available for development stores. Paid plans start at $29/mo; Starter lists a 1.6% charge per subscription transaction. Paid plans include a 7-day trial. Support varies by plan, from live chat and email on Starter to priority support and a dedicated customer success manager on Subi Plus.

WooCommerce is free, self-hosted software for running an online store with omnichannel sales channels. Its core plan costs nothing, billed free with no monthly subscription. The plan lists unlimited products, unlimited orders, and unlimited APIs, allowing catalog and order volume without those stated caps. WooCommerce supports digital products as well as general online-store sales, includes abandoned-cart recovery, and provides an app marketplace. The listed transaction fee is payment-only. Because the hosting model is self-hosted, the store runs on hosting managed by the user rather than a hosted WooCommerce environment. WooCommerce is made by WooCommerce, founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA. The combination of omnichannel selling, digital-product support, recovery tools, and extensible apps gives store operators a broad core setup without a subscription charge. Hosting management remains part of choosing this model.