One of the best parts about WooCommerce Subscriptions is that it runs on your own site. This means you can avoid a lot of fees that you would need to pay if you were to use other services. The downside to running it on your own site is that it uses the scheduling functionality built into WordPress, which relies on people visiting your site. If you don't have people visiting your site, then certain tasks won't happen. For large sites, this isn't a problem at all, but for smaller sites, you could have a subscription payment run a day late because no one visited the site the previous day.
With a few free tools, you can get around this issue by using services that ping your site every few minutes. That will ensure all of your subscription payments go off at the right time.
In order to make subscription payments more consistent, follow these steps:
- From the WordPress admin, go to Plugins | Add New.
- Run a search for the Jetpack by WordPress.com plugin.
- Install and activate the plugin.
- In the WordPress admin, you should see a notice asking you to Connect to WordPress.com.
- Connect to WordPress.com. If you have an account, you only need to log in. If you don't have an account, you can create one for free and then log in.
Now that we have Jetpack installed and connected to WordPress.com, we can use all of the features included in the plugin. The final thing we need to do is turn on the right Jetpack module.
- Go to Jetpack | Settings.
- Scroll down to Monitor, hover over it, and click on the Activate link.
