Asteris Subscriptions – Recurring Payments & Subscriptions for WooCommerce

Asteris Subscriptions is genuinely free recurring billing for WooCommerce. It focuses on the thing that actually costs subscription stores money: renewals that silently fail. Free features

• Self-healing renewal engine — an idempotent claim lock (no double charges) + a watchdog that re-queues any renewal the WordPress queue silently drops, with a WP-Cron fallback.
• Your own Stripe checkout — cards collected under your Stripe account (Stripe Elements, classic + block checkout) and charged off-session for renewals. No separate Stripe plugin required.
• Customer self-service — cancel / pause / resume and a one-click card-update flow from My Account.
• Basic MRR + at-risk dashboard — see your recurring revenue and overdue renewals at a glance.
• Compliance by default — click-to-cancel + an EU Withdrawal Button during the 14-day window.
• No transaction fees. We never take a cut of your subscriptions.

Upgrade to Pro The paid edition adds the revenue-recovery and growth features: smart-retry dunning with branded recovery emails, full Insights (churn, LTV, recovered revenue), card-expiry reminders, and subscription switching & proration. Details: asterisforwoocommerce.com/subscriptions This plugin requires WooCommerce.

1.2.2

• Hardening: all database queries now pass table names through $wpdb->prepare() with the %i identifier placeholder, and all admin output is escaped on output (wp_kses / esc_url).

1.2.1

• Internal: longer, more distinctive prefixes on the database tables and product meta keys (asteris_subs_), with an automatic one-time migration that preserves existing data.

1.2.0

• Internal: the free edition is now fully standalone with no add-on code bundled — optional paid features extend it purely through action/filter hooks. Class names are prefixed (Asteris_Subs_) to avoid collisions.

1.1.0

• Reliability + correctness pass: off-session charging is now keyed to the billing period (no double-charge when a renewal is retried), network-timeout outcomes are reconciled via webhook/watchdog instead of being treated as failures, webhook de-duplication is atomic, and subscriptions are created on payment-complete (not only on "processing").
• Customer self-service: cancellation now asks for confirmation (no accidental one-click cancel), per-status labels and colours are clearer, the card on file is shown, on-hold subscriptions get an "update card & retry" action, and pre-renewal reminders let you update the card or cancel before the charge.
• Product pages now disclose free trials and sign-up fees before purchase; customer emails follow your store's brand colour.
• Refreshed admin design, clearer Test/Live Stripe settings with show/hide for keys, and stronger at-rest secret encryption.

1.0.0

• First stable release of the free edition. Reliable self-healing renewals + watchdog recovery, your own Stripe checkout, customer self-service, compliant cancellation + EU withdrawal, basic MRR, and the hardening / compliance pass.

0.2.0-alpha.3

• Hardening + compliance pass: more reliable renewals and recovery, SCA handling that never cancels a good card, GDPR data export/erase, pre-purchase auto-renewal disclosure, accurate renewal tax, and multisite-safe uninstall.

0.2.0-alpha.2

• Initial WordPress.org release of the free edition.