PayWhirl is a Shopify subscription app and subscription billing app for selling recurring plans through Shopify checkout.
PayWhirl for Shopify
Flexible Shopify subscriptions that are easy to launch and serious enough to scale.
Create subscribe-and-save, prepaid, gift, membership, and custom recurring plans in Shopify checkout, then manage subscribers, workflows, payment recovery, migrations, and support from one flexible app.
Free to install. 0% PayWhirl fees on your first $5,000 processed. 4.8 stars on Shopify. 13 years building recurring-commerce tools.
13 years
building subscription apps
20,000+
businesses helped
4.8 stars
182 Shopify reviews
Shopify merchants that want flexible subscriptions, customer self-service, workflows, and support without enterprise bloat.
PayWhirl helps merchants plan subscription migrations, including active subscriptions and supported payment methods.
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Product tour
See the PayWhirl screens merchants use every day.
Review product-page options, workflows, bulk edits, analytics, customer self-service, and subscription emails before you install.
Why merchants choose PayWhirl
Flexible enough for the subscription setups basic apps can't handle.
PayWhirl works with Shopify selling plans and checkout, then adds the operational tools merchants need for billing, customer changes, payment recovery, migrations, and day-to-day support.
Launch faster
Add subscriptions to Shopify products without rebuilding your store.
Create selling plans, attach them to products or collections, place the app block in your Shopify theme, and start testing recurring orders.
Operate smarter
Use workflows, dunning, inventory settings, and bulk tools to reduce manual work.
Automate tags, gifts, swaps, discounts, payment retries, failed-payment handling, and subscription changes as your program grows.
Get help
Talk to subscription people when setup, migration, or support gets tricky.
PayWhirl backs the app with docs, tutorials, migration paths, and US-based support by phone, chat, and email.
Selling subscriptions
Make recurring revenue easy to start and serious enough to scale.
Offer recurring delivery on product pages, keep one-time and subscription items in the same Shopify checkout, and generate repeat Shopify orders on the schedule each customer chooses.
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Subscription programs
Build the recurring offer that fits your products.
PayWhirl supports practical subscription patterns merchants use every day, while leaving room for more advanced workflows when the business is ready.
Subscribe and save
Give shoppers recurring delivery options with percentage or fixed-amount discounts.
Prepaid and fixed-cycle plans
Bill upfront, set anchor dates, define cutoffs, and control when subscriptions finish.
Gift subscriptions
Support repeat gifting and subscription-box style programs without forcing a custom checkout.
Membership and access patterns
Use Shopify accounts, customer tags, and integrations to support member experiences.
Customer self-service
Give subscribers control without giving your support team more tickets.
Customers can manage subscriptions from Shopify customer accounts or classic accounts when enabled: skip an order, pause, cancel, update payment methods, change addresses, adjust schedules, and edit products.
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Workflow automation
Automate the subscription moments that usually become manual work.
Trigger workflows when subscriptions are created, paused, resumed, canceled, expired, paid, or declined. Then update tags, add gifts, swap products, remove products, or apply discounts based on what happened.
When a subscription is
created, paused, resumed, canceled, paid, or declined
Add or remove Shopify customer tags
Add tags to subscription orders
Add a one-time gift product
Swap or remove products
Apply discounts after milestones
React to failed or successful payments
Migration and support
Moving subscribers should feel careful, not chaotic.
PayWhirl supports migration paths from subscription apps and payment providers, including active subscription imports and customer payment method imports. When you need guidance, our team can help you plan the move.
Built around Shopify
Native checkout, Shopify customer accounts, and the tools to run recurring orders cleanly.
PayWhirl is designed around Shopify's checkout, products, customer accounts, orders, shipping, taxes, POS, and integrations so merchants can grow subscriptions without sending customers into a disconnected flow.