Getting Started Guide

Before going ahead you must check out the quick guide of Pabbly Subscriptions – How to set up an account in Pabbly Subscriptions?

Let’s get you all these Sections one after the other.

1. Dashboard:

You will be redirected to Dashboard once you log in to Pabbly Subscriptions account. This is how it will look:

From the Dashboard, you can get an overview of your products such as Total Sales, Refunds, New Subscriptions, Canceled Subscriptions, Rebills. In the section below recent customer, details are mentioned such as active product, payment status, billing date, etc. Moreover, you can apply a filter on recent customers to view the desired customer.

P.s:- These stats will be visible to you when you have products & subscriptions on your account.

2. Product:

With Pabbly Subscriptions, you can sell SaaS-based products and membership. You must create a product before getting started. There can be multiple plans and coupons associated with a product.

How to add a product?

1. Go to the “Products” tab.
2. Click on “Add New Product ”. 

3. How to set up plans for the product?

Plans are the pricing for your products. You can create unlimited plans corresponding to the product.

1. Go to the “Products” section and select the product to add a plan.

2. Click on “Add Plan”.

3. Fill up the details of the plan. Here is how the form looks like –

• Plan Name

For ex: if you’re offering basic services or features to your customer then you can name your plan as – “Basic” & when offering the advanced featured you can name it as – “Advanced Plan”.

It will be displayed on the invoice that you’ll send to your customer.

• Plan Code

Here you can add a unique code of the product which acts as a unique identifier.

• Price

Here you can add the pricing of a plan in a specific currency. Pabbly Subscriptions supports 25+ currencies such as Dollar, Euro, INR etc. 

• Setup Fee (Optional)

You can charge customers a one-time amount setup fee for setting up the account.

• Billing cycle

1. One Time: The customer will be charged for one time only.

2. Auto renews until canceled – Customer will be charged as long as customer purposely canceled the subscription.

3. Expires after a specified no. of billing cycles – Here you can set the no. of billing cycles after which the plan will expire. (For a one-time payment, enter “1”).

• Bill Every

You can set the number of billing intervals on the weekly, monthly or yearly basis.

For example –

If you set Bill every 1 month – Your customer would be charged every month on the subscription activation date.

• Free Trial

Here you can set up a free trial period for a specified number of days. For example, if you set 7-days or 60-days trial period then, your customer will be charged after that trial period.

• Plan Status

You can ‘Activate’/’Deactivate’ the plan from this section. (When you make a new plan the ‘Plan Status’ is set activated by default)

• Plan Description

Here you can describe the plan of the product.

4. Finally, click on the “Submit” button.

Now, your products, their corresponding plans, and their buying links have been created. So, you are now ready to collect payments for your services.

5. Subscriptions:

When a customer complete’s the purchase of any of your plan then the details are added in this section.

Subscriptions can be added in two ways –

• Via hosted page/Online.
• Manually/Offline
  

How to add a new subscription via a hosted page/Online?

An online subscription is an automatic process, anyone who pays through your Checkout Page, Pabbly subscription automatically adds them as your Subscriptions to make it easier for you to manage and track transactions. You can create an online subscription via your hosted page or you can share the Url of your checkout page via emails or any other way.

Now check your “Subscription” section, a new subscription is created on top of the list by the same email address.

How to add a new subscription manually/offline?

• Click on the “Subscription” section from the sidebar menu.
• Now, Click on the “Add New Subscription”.

Moreover, if you want to view the list of certain status such as “Live” so, you can also apply the filter on the list and view the subscription which arelive.

Now fill up the form which looks like this –

• Customer Name –  You can add a new subscription for existing customers.
• Email To – Send email notification to the customer’s id informing about the new subscription.
• Payment Term –  Payment term is like how long your customer can pay. For example, if you select net 15 that means your customer has 15 more days to make the payment. This case is just the same with Net 30, Net 45, Net 60.

Below this, you will notice-

You can specify the Subscription Term

• Enter the start date when your subscription is activated.
• Specify the number of billing cycles, after which the subscription expires.

(Tick on Never Expire if you want lifetime subscription)

You have the 2 payment method –

• Offline – Offline payment means the payment which you receive from other sources i.e., cash, cheque, and other payment gateways. Then the  Payment Method will be displayed as offline in the subscription overview.

• Online payment –  Receive payment via Paypal or Stripe.

How to cancel a subscription?

To cancel the subscription, follow the steps below –

• Go to the “Subscription” section.
• Then, click on the email id of the subscribed customer.

• Now click on “More” button. Then select “Cancel Subscription”.

6. Invoice:

Invoices are generated by the system and automatically sent to the customer on every transaction. 

To view the generated invoices of customers.

Follow the steps below –

1. Go to the “Invoice” section.
2. Now click on the customer whose invoice you want to see. 

Here is the created invoice looks like –

NOTE:- If you offer free trial period then the invoice will be generated after the trial period is over.

There are two ways to make payments one is via checkout page and other is through invoice

7. Reports:

The Report section will provide you with the details of current and overall changes in the Pabbly Subscriptions application.

• Subscriptions – It will show the total number subscription in the last 30 days.
• Active Subscriptions – This shows the details of active subscription. It does not include the canceled or unpaid customer
• New Customers – The details of all the new customers added in the last 30 days.
• Active Customers – Shows the details of all the customer who are assigned with any live subscription plan.
• Net Revenue – Shows the stats of the net revenue generated in the last 30 days
• Monthly Recurring Revenue – Stats of the upcoming payments.
• All-Transactions – Shows the stats of all transaction either it is failed or success.

8. Settings:

You can change the settings of the following sections.

• Profile Settings
• Payment Integration
• API Settings
• Checkout Page Settings
• Change Password
• Email Notification
• Client Portal

Profile Settings

Set up your profile here by filling up your details such as Name, Email, Phone, Currency, Time Zones etc.

How to update your profile?

1. Go to the “Settings”.
2. Then click on “Profile Settings”.
3. Fill up the entries.

Now, click on “Update Profile” button.

How to integrate with payment gateway?

Pabbly subscriptions support Paypal and Stripe and also a test mode to test your transactions.

To integrate with PayPal and Stripe, you need a secret key from your PayPal and Stripe account to do so.

If you want to integrate with PayPal, you need to enter client ID and Client Secret key. It also provides you the test sandbox mode.

Note: You can add only one PayPal and one Stripe payment gateway with your Pabbly Subscription account.

Check out these links

• PayPal Integration Guide
• Stripe Integration Guide

API Settings

Whenever customer signed up in the Pabbly Subscriptions they will get a unique API key and secret key. If you want to integrate the Pabbly subscriptions on your software or your SaaS application then these keys are required. Here you can also regenerate your API and secret key,

You can use our API’s to get useful data from your account and use it to integrate Pabbly Subscriptions in the varied type of applications.

Pabbly Subscriptions API And Integration Guide

Checkout Page Settings

Checkout pages are specific to each product’s plan and you can view the checkout page for each plan by clicking on “View Checkout Page” under each plan.

Once you embed this link in your website, your customer can subscribe to your plan by giving their personal and card information.

How to change the settings of checkout pages?

1. Go to the “Settings” section.
2. Click on “Checkout Page Settings”. You will be redirected to Checkout Page Customizer.

9. Multi Plan Checkout Pages –

By this feature of Pabbly Subscription, you can make a single checkout page which will have multiple plans.

Your customer can choose any of the plans and then complete the checkout. This feature of Paably Subscriptions is also known as Multi-plan checkout page feature. To know more about this please check the documentation.

10. Affiliate:

The Pabbly Affiliate Management System is integrated with the Pabbly Subscriptions application. By this system, you can start your own referral program.

In this people will sign up to become your affiliate partner and promote your product against some commission.

To know more about the affiliate system please check this Documentation.