Understanding the Recharge subscription widget
The subscription widget is the visual representation of your store’s recurring subscription offerings.
This guide provides instructions on how to enable or disable the subscription widget from your storefront.
Warning: This article applies to merchants using the original subscription widget. If you are using the Shopify 2.0 widget, refer to Overview of the Shopify 2.0 widget.
Before you start
- For more information on the subscription widget and how to modify it, see Modifying the subscription widget.
- Disabling Recharge using this guide will only hide the subscription widget and subscription option from your storefront. If you need to stop recurring billing for your customers or need to uninstall Recharge, see Cancelling your Recharge account.
Subscription widget in action
Customers use the subscription widget on your product page to sign up for your subscription offering. Depending on your product settings, customers can select between Subscribe & save and One-time purchase, or select their billing and shipping frequency. The following graphic displays what the subscription widget looks like in a typical Shopify store:
The subscription widget appears differently on BigCommerce stores, but has identical functionality:
The widget appears differently for Subscription-only products since there isn't a need for customers to select the subscription option.
Preview the subscription widget
You can preview the subscription widget before you make subscriptions live on your storefront. See Preview the subscription widget on your storefront for instructions and more information.
Publish or unpublish the subscription widget
You can publish or unpublish the subscription widget from the Recharge merchant portal anytime.
- From the Recharge merchant portal, click Storefront and select Subscription widget.
- On the subscription widget settings page, click Publish the subscription widget or Unpublish the subscription widget.
If your subscription widget is not appearing on your product pages by default, confirm that Auto Inject is not disabled in your widget settings. If this does not work for you, it may be because you have an older version of the app or you are using an incompatible store theme. Contact the Recharge support team for further assistance.
