Subscriptions

Recurring revenue that actually works.

Trials, renewals, retries, and the customer portal run by default. You set the plan; we keep the revenue coming.

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MonthlyYearly
Save 20% on yearly plan

Starter

For solo builders charging their first customers.

$19/mo

Select Starter
  • 10,000 AI credits / month
  • 1 seat
  • Community support
  • Standard API rate limits

Pro

For teams with paying customers and real volume.

$79/mo

Select Pro
  • 100,000 AI credits / month
  • 5 seats
  • Priority support
  • Higher API rate limits
  • Usage analytics

Scale

For products running at scale — custom terms and dedicated support.

$399/mo

Contact sales
  • Unlimited seats
  • Custom credit volume
  • Dedicated account manager
  • Custom SLA & contract

Set it once, collect every cycle.

Everything a subscription needs after the first checkout is already built — the charge, the fallback when it fails, and the page where customers help themselves.

01 / FLEXIBLE LIFECYCLE

A flexible lifecycle for every subscription.

Trials, cycles, renewals, pauses, cancellation — every state a subscription passes through is configurable per plan. The first charge carries the authentication; everything after runs on the stored credential, on the schedule you set.

  • Standard weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly cycles — plus custom day intervals.
  • Free or discounted trials validate the card first.
  • Renewals need no CVV and no repeat 3DS.
Subscription details
ProRenews automatically · cancel anytime

A reminder email goes out before the trial ends.

Trial — free or discountedTrial · 14 days · free or discounted
  • Trial startsToday · $0.00
Automatic chargesRenews every week, automatically
  • 1st period$3.00
  • 2nd period$3.00
  • 3rd period$3.00
  • Every period after$3.00
Next charge$3.00 · Day 15
amelia@northwind.ioSC…67553534
Jun 5
10:35 pmSmart retry129.00 USDCharge failed
kenji@papercrane.jpSC…52713527
Jun 4
8:15 pmDiscount offer480.00 USDCancelled
lucas@atelier.frSC…02003519
Jun 4
6:45 pmAccount updater99.00 USDCharge failed
sofia@brightlab.coSC…70373510
Jun 3
4:20 pmEmail reminder49.00 USDCharge failed
noah@wavefield.devSC…55363437
Jun 2
9:12 amDiscount offer12.99 USDCancelled
emma@studio92.coSC…17593423
Jun 1
11:40 pmSmart retry240.00 USDCharge failed

Subscription details

Premium planActive
Current period$9.90After trial · Period 2
Next chargeUpdated$24.90$19.9026/05/2025
  • Trial periodCompleted · 2/2
    $0.99 – $1.98 / 2 weeksBilled every 2 weeks, 2 cycles
    Trial 1
    $0.99
    Trial 2
    $1.98
  • After trialCurrent · 2/10
    $4.90 – $24.90 / moBilled monthly, 10 cycles
    Period 1
    $4.90
    Period 2
    $9.90
    Period 3–10
    $24.90
04 / UNDER THE SUBSCRIPTION

One model on a full revenue stack.

A subscription is one of the ways Waffo charges, and it leans on the rest of the platform: the billing models beside it, the retention chain around it, the coupons on top of it, and the payment methods underneath.

Billing

Subscriptions sit beside one-time payments and usage-based billing (coming soon) — three charging models on one integration.

See billing

Retain customers

The retention chain end to end: recovered renewals, refreshed cards, and an offer inside the cancel flow.

See retention

Promotion

Coupons apply to subscriptions natively — discount the first charge, the first few renewals, or every payment.

See promotions

Payment methods

More than cards: wallets and local methods that can carry a subscription, across 173 countries and markets.

See payment methods

Frequently asked questions about subscriptions.

Waffo returns a reason code rather than a bare decline, emails the customer the reason and how to fix it, and retries the charge automatically. A changed card is refreshed through the card networks' account updaters, and if nothing recovers the payment the subscription is paused rather than silently cancelled.

A zero-amount authorization validates the credential before the trial starts. Where an issuer does not support a zero-amount authorization, a small authorization is used instead and voided immediately.

Weekly cycles from one to four weeks, and monthly cycles from one to twelve months — enough to model weekly plans, monthly plans, quarterly plans, and annual memberships.

Cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and supported local wallets can each carry a subscription. What is available to a specific business depends on the product, market, currency, and account.

Yes. The customer can cancel from their own subscription page, and access runs to the end of the period they already paid for. You can also cancel by API — but subscriptions that have already expired, or that have a payment in flight, cannot be cancelled.

Yes. Customers upgrade or downgrade from their own subscription page — no need to cancel and re-subscribe.

Card-network account updaters refresh a changed card number or expiry date before the next renewal is due, and the customer can also change payment method from their own subscription page without re-subscribing.

Companies go live on Waffo. Developers start on Pancake.

Two paths, one promise: you build the product, Waffo runs the payments.

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