Core Subscriptions

New to subscriptions

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Not sure where to start with subscriptions?

You've come to the right place.

Recharge powers over 20,000 innovative subscription programs of all sizes.

We help brands integrate their products into customers' daily lives with flexible, personal subscription experiences.

Why subscriptions?

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Increase lifetime value

Brands offering subscriptions see a 4-6x increase in LTV, ensuring sustainable growth and profitability.

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Improve retention

Subscriptions are a strategic investment in retention. And with customer acquisition costing five to ten times as much as retention, they're a cost-effective way to foster a robust customer base.

Brands grow with Recharge

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What brands love about Recharge

All the tools you need

Whether you want to offer flexible subscriptions, bundles, gifting, or prepaid plans, Recharge provides all the tools you need to create an easy-to-manage subscription program. Plus, if you need additional features, Recharge has extensive integrations with all the apps you already use and love. 

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Customization without code

Recharge includes both turnkey out-of-the-box solutions and robust customization options and developer tools, so you can tailor our platform to your business.

Data that drives business results

Our self-serve tools help you prove ROI, assess business performance, and improve brand strategies.

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Personalized customer journeys

Automate, A/B test, and iterate on your customer journey.

Unified experience

Harmonize your website and customer portal for a smooth user experience.

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Ready to take the next step?

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New to subscriptions?
You came to the right place.

Turn your one-time transactions into long-term customer relationships. Implementing subscriptions gives you predictable revenue, reduced churn, and higher average order values.

Why subscriptions?

The subscription market is predicted to grow to nearly $500 billion by 2025. It’s time to capture your slice of the pie.

Why subscriptions

Increase customer lifetime value (LTV)

  • Repeat customers are 50% more likely to make another purchase than new customers, and they spend 33% more on average
  • Subscriptions allow you to foster ongoing relationships with your customers that keep them coming back—in fact, the majority of consumers (60%) have had the same subscription for over a year
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Reduce churn

  • Maximize the time you have with your customers and give them a seamless experience to do business with you
  • Avoid passive churn by allowing for flexible checkout options like one-time purchases, skipping a shipment, or swapping products

Increase average order value (AOV)

  • Implementing subscriptions lends itself to increased cross-sell and upsell opportunities
  • In 2020 alone, merchants saw an increase of 6% in AOV across verticals, meaning customers are engaging more than ever with subscription brands
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Types of subscriptions

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Curation

Curation is the most popular subscription model (55% of merchants choose this subscription type). Here, merchants curate a box of one or more products, which are packaged together and shipped at a regular cadence.

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Replenishment

The second-most popular subscription model (32% of merchants choose this subscription type), replenishment offers the same product on a consistent basis. It’s also referred to as “subscribe-and-save” and works best for products that are consumables (ones that most people use daily).

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Access

The third and fastest-growing subscription model (13% of merchants choose this subscription type), access is most commonly used to offer a membership or gate availability. This model is growing quickly because of the wide variety of benefits merchants can offer their subscribers.

Increase LTV with subscriptions

Subscriptions Subscriptions + One time purchases Subscriptions + OTP

$239.44

170%
$4,600

For this exercise, we analyzed data from 15,000 Recharge brands. We calculate LTV using the following formula:

Subscriptions only, multiply by 1.7
Subscriptions + One time purchases, multiply by 2.3

Getting started guide

  • 1. Determine your subscription business plan
    What offerings do you plan to allow for your recurring subscriptions?
  • 2. Sign up for Recharge for free
    Try out Recharge for free to walk through setting up subscriptions for your store.
  • 3. Set up your products for subscriptions
    Using the onboarding flow in Recharge, set up your checkout flow to allow for subscription selections.
  • 4. Ensure your logistics and shipping are in order for recurring fulfillment
    Ensure that you are able to support regular purchases of products on a recurring basis.
  • 5. Turn on subscriptions
    Try out a test order, then go live!
  • 6. Let your customers know!
    Get in front of your most loyal customers and share the great news that they can subscribe to your amazing products.
  • 7. Gather customer feedback often
    Check in on your analytics with a select number of your customers to ensure their subscriptions are working well for them. Test new suggestions to continue to enhance the customer experience.
  • 8. Optimize your subscriptions with key integrations
    Leverage the hundreds of integrations with Recharge to create a tech stack that meets the needs of your customers at every phase of their journey.