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Reaction Subscription Billing

Goals

• To deliver a high quality and reliable Reaction Commerce plug-in supporting the most popular subscription billing features.
• To support extension of features as requirements evolve over time.

Background and strategic fit

Subscriptions play an important and ever increasing role in the e-commerce landscape.

Gateway target

The focus of the MVP will be to get subscriptions working against the Stripe Subscriptions as an initial backend. The design will take care to avoid any coupling with Stripe that would prevent it from working with other services for subscriptions such as Chargify, Recurly, Etc.

Functionality required in a first version/MVP

• Billing Interval
  • Yearly
  • Semi-Annual
  • Quarterly
  • Monthly
  • Semi-monthly
  • Week
  • Day
• Billing Cycles
  • Terminate billing after X cycles.
• Timespan
  • Begin
  • End Date
  • Infinity *Assign subscription profile to products on product edit/management *Assign Role to User on subscription purchase.

Features that are not MVP, but important to consider:

• Free Trial
  • Time the subscriber is allotted on the plan for free. The paid subscription will begin at the end of the trial period.
• Setup Fees
  • A one time fee charged at the start of the subscription.
• User editing of subscriptions
  • User can edit/change the products or variants in the subscription plan.