Subscriptions

Fine Print shows the subscription plans that a subscription app creates in Shopify. The theme does not create plans or charge subscriptions. The app does. Once a product has plans, Fine Print offers them on the product page and in quick view, and shows the chosen plan in the cart.

Set up subscriptions in Shopify

1. Install a subscription app from the Shopify App Store, such as Shopify’s own Shopify Subscriptions app, and follow its setup.
2. In the app, create your plans, such as delivery every month, and add the products they apply to.
3. Decide in your Shopify admin whether each product sells by subscription only or also as a one-time purchase.
4. Add a subscription policy to your store policies, so shoppers can read your cancellation terms.

Shopify’s guides to subscriptions and setting up subscriptions cover each step, and store policies covers the policy.

The plan picker on the product page

The Subscription plans block sits inside the Purchase options block of the Product section. All three presets put it after the variant picker, so shoppers pick the options first, then the plan. The default product template already includes it. If you removed it, select Purchase options in the theme editor and add Subscription plans back.

The block’s one setting, Product, picks the product it shows plans for; leave it empty to use the page’s product. It shows only on products with plans, and hides on every other product, so one template serves both.

Under the heading “Purchase”, shoppers choose between two cards:

• “One-time purchase”, with the variant’s regular price.
• “Subscribe”, with each plan of the selected variant as a row: the plan’s name as your app wrote it, its price and its saving, such as “Save 10%”. A prepaid plan also shows its price per delivery. When the product has plans from more than one plan group, each group’s name heads its plans.

Choosing “Subscribe” picks the first plan. A product sold by subscription only has no one-time card and starts on its first plan.

When your store has a subscription policy, a link to it shows under the picker.

How the chosen plan shows

When a shopper picks a plan, the product page updates to match:

• The price shows the plan’s price, with the one-time price struck through when the plan costs less. In the Stack, Carousel and Grid layouts the Price block adds the plan’s saving as a badge.
• The sticky add to cart bar names the plan next to the chosen options.
• The add to cart button adds the variant on that plan.

In the cart drawer and on the cart page, each item bought with a plan shows the plan’s name under the product title, and its price shows the one-time price struck through when the plan saves. See Cart drawer and cart page.

Quick view, cards and the register

Quick view shows the same plan picker as the product page.

On product cards, a product with plans shows a badge: “Save 10%” when every plan in its first plan group saves the same percentage, and “Subscribe and save” otherwise. A card shows at most two badges, so a sale or sold out badge can take its place.

A product sold by subscription only has no direct add to cart button on cards or in the collection register. Its button opens quick view, so the shopper sees the plan before adding it.