About Subscriptions

Flash Checkout

You must enable the Flash Checkout feature from the Razorpay Dashboard to proceed with Subscriptions.

Know more about the

To enable the Flash Checkout feature:

1. Log in to the

   Razorpay Dashboard

   and click Account & Settings in the left menu.
2. Click Flash checkout under Checkout settings.
   
3. Enable the Flash Checkout feature.
   

Tokenisation for Card-based Subscription

To process a subscription, customer card details must be secured/tokenised to process a subscription by Applicable Laws. Razorpay Checkout explicitly collects customer consent for tokenising the card to process e-mandate/subscription transactions.

Use Cases

As a fitness and well-being start-up, you would offer different fitness, nutrition, and mental well-being programs.

• For example, one of your customers may want to take a membership in one of your fitness programs. In this case, you may have to manually schedule debits for your customers.
• Using Razorpay Subscriptions, you can create a Plan and set up a mandate using cards to charge your customers on different frequencies for membership. This reduces the effort of scheduling debits manually. You can also run trials and offers and upgrade or downgrade the Plan as per your business needs.

Get Started

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Below are the steps to get started with Subscriptions:

1. Create a Plan

   
   A Plan is the base of a Subscription. A Plan contains all the information about the services, such as the amount and the billing cycle.

2. Create a Subscription

   
   You can create a Subscription after creating a Plan. A Subscription contains Plan details, start date, number of billing cycles and other information.

How Subscriptions Work

Subscriptions does not require any intervention from the customer. It is an automated payment collection system that requires a one-time approval from the customer via an authentication transaction. The following points explain how a Subscription works:

1. The customer’s approval is sought before recurring payments are collected. This approval process works like any normal payment with the 3D Secure authentication step. This is what we refer to as an authentication transaction.
2. After the authentication transaction is successfully completed, the card is automatically charged at the start of every billing cycle.
3. For every recurring payment, Razorpay automatically generates an invoice with customer and Subscription details along with your branding.

Billing Models

Subscriptions supports three different billing models:

• Fixed Schedule and Fixed Amount
  The customer is charged a fixed amount at fixed intervals for a fixed quantity of goods or services. This is done by creating a Plan with a fixed amount and billing frequency and then creating a Subscription based on this Plan with no add-ons.

• Fixed Schedule and Fixed Amount plus Add-ons
  The customer is charged a fixed amount at fixed intervals but can avail of extra goods or services by paying an extra charge for them. This is done by creating a Plan with a fixed amount and billing frequency and then creating a Subscription based on this Plan. The extra goods or services availed can be added to the Subscription via add-ons.

• Fixed Schedule and Variable Amount
  The customer is charged at fixed intervals according to their usage in the defined time interval. Here, the Subscription amount and the quantity of the goods or services are not fixed. This is done by first creating a Plan with a fixed amount (this can be as low as ₹1.00) and a billing frequency. You proceed to create a Subscription based on this plan and charge the customer a variable amount based on their usage via add-ons.

International Payments

You can use Subscriptions to accept payment in any of our

Supported Platforms

Razorpay Subscriptions is supported on the following platforms:

Related Information

• Subscription Workflow

• Subscription States

• Create Subscriptions

• Test Subscriptions

• Payment Retries