Maintenance plans

Coming soon. This isn't available to customers yet.

Keep monthly or yearly maintenance plans and memberships in Store, with customers' subscriptions on a status board. The built-in renewal thank-you and failed-payment staff notice start paused: adding this type sends nothing and charges nobody.

Use it when

Use it for a service plan or membership billed monthly or yearly. The products, customers and subscriptions stay in Store; there is no separate membership database.

Use something else when

For a price shown without checkout, use Prices and leave that product's Ordering off. Visits and recurring appointments belong to Schedule; this type does not book them. GrowLocal's own hosting subscriptions use Site subscriptions, which records Core billing rather than merchant payments.

What it adds or changes

Nothing is charged or sent by applying this type

It brings these with it:

How it works

It runs its own built-in automation: Maintenance plans.

Example

A fictional plumbing business keeps an annual service plan as a yearly Store product. Adding Maintenance plans gives it a Subscriptions status board. The owner selects an accepted transactional thank-you template and sender for renewals, and a separate staff template and destination for payment failures. Until those choices are made, both notices remain paused; no plan is sold merely by adding this type.

Limits

Store remains Soon for ordinary members; only the active platform superuser can exercise the current implementation. Taking merchant payments needs the merchant's approved, ready payment connection. Externally recorded subscriptions are records only: adding this type does not take over their billing.

This type configures the workspace and editable notices, not payment credentials, product prices, consent, bookings or a retry schedule. Products must explicitly have Ordering on before they can sell. A purchase is not marketing consent. The subscription message node accepts native subscriptions only; externally recorded subscriptions retain their existing owner and lifecycle.