The WooCommerce subscriptions plugin that shows you the money — and doesn’t lose it.
Reliable recurring billing for WooCommerce: a self-healing renewal engine that re-queues the renewals WordPress silently drops, your own Stripe checkout, and your MRR right inside the dashboard.
Free on WordPress.org · WooCommerce-native · charges renewals under your own Stripe account · no platform fees.
Most subscription plugins process renewals. We make sure they don’t silently fail.
WooCommerce admits its own renewal queue can drop scheduled charges — and when it does, most plugins fail in silence and you lose the revenue without a trace. Asteris runs an idempotent renewal engine with a watchdog that detects the renewals the queue dropped and re-queues them, backed by a WP-Cron fallback. Reliability you can see, not hope for.
How reliable renewals work →Everything a subscription store needs. Nothing that loses you money.
Six capabilities that ship in the plugin today — each one explained, each one a click away.
A self-healing renewal engine and watchdog re-queue any renewal the WordPress queue silently drops — so you stop losing recurring revenue.
Learn more →Smart retries and dunning recover the payments other plugins quietly let slip, and you see the recovered revenue in WordPress. Pro.
Learn more →Live MRR in your dashboard, free — with churn, LTV and recovered revenue in Pro. No spreadsheets, no third-party SaaS.
Learn more →Cards collected with Stripe Elements under your account and charged off-session for renewals. No separate Stripe plugin required.
Learn more →Compliant cancellation and the EU withdrawal button, built in — so your store meets modern subscription-cancellation laws.
Learn more →We never take a cut of your subscription revenue. The closest competitor charges 2.9% on its free tier until you upgrade.
Learn more →Built for click-to-cancel laws.
Compliant cancellation and the EU withdrawal button are built in — and we’ll tell you straight which laws actually apply to your store (the FTC rule was struck down in 2025).
Is your store compliant? →Comparing subscription plugins?
See how Asteris stacks up — on reliability, fees, and seeing your revenue.
Questions
What is Asteris Subscriptions?
Asteris Subscriptions is a WooCommerce recurring-billing plugin focused on the thing that actually costs subscription stores money: renewals that silently fail. It pairs a self-healing renewal engine with your own Stripe checkout, customer self-service, and your MRR right inside WordPress — with a genuinely free edition and no transaction fees.
How is it different from WooCommerce Subscriptions?
The official extension processes renewals; Asteris makes them reliable and visible — a watchdog re-queues renewals the WordPress queue drops, and you see MRR and recovered revenue in your dashboard. There is also a free edition on WordPress.org, and we never charge a platform fee.
Does it charge a platform fee on my subscriptions?
Never. Asteris takes no cut of your subscription revenue — you only pay your payment processor’s normal fees. The closest competitor charges a 2.9% platform fee on its free tier until you upgrade.
Is there a free version?
Yes — Asteris Subscriptions Lite is free on WordPress.org: reliable renewals, your own Stripe checkout, cancel/pause, card updates, basic MRR and compliant cancellation, with no fees.
Does it need a separate Stripe plugin?
No. Asteris has its own Stripe Elements checkout and charges renewals off-session under your account, so there is no dependency on the official WooCommerce Stripe plugin.
