The blog
How we build Milo, what the numbers say, and what we get wrong along the way. No growth hacking, no funnels, just the actual work of running a subscriptions ecosystem in public.
Not every subscription business looks like a store. A yoga studio signing up members, a newsletter with a paid tier, a nonprofit collecting monthly donations, a coach onboarding clients: none of them woke up wanting a cart page. What they have, in almost every case, is a form. It has been sitting on their site […]
By Rémi Corson · August 29, 2026 · 4 min read
Moving a store from Easy Digital Downloads to WooCommerce has always had one painful step in the middle: the subscriptions. Products can be rebuilt, content can be moved, customers can be exported. But recurring billing has stubbornly meant going back to every subscriber and asking them to subscribe all over again. Some do. Many do […]
By Rémi Corson · August 11, 2026 · 4 min read
Every subscription store has a number it cannot see: how many active subscribers will fail to renew when their next payment falls due. Not because of churn, or expired cards, or a decision the customer made. Because of something mundane that went wrong months earlier and left no trace. A card that was never fully […]
By Rémi Corson · August 7, 2026 · 3 min read
Stripe on its own, a membership plugin, a hosted platform or a full WooCommerce store: an honest look at the four usual answers, what each one really costs you, and how to pick.
By Rémi Corson · July 31, 2026 · 6 min read
On June 23, Automattic shipped WooCommerce Subscriptions 9.0. It is a substantial release, and the headline is a real one for store owners: All Products for Subscriptions is now built into WooCommerce Subscriptions.
By Rémi Corson · June 25, 2026 · 4 min read
Subscriptions are not a feature you can afford to get wrong. Behind every active subscription is a customer who expects to be charged the right amount, on the right day, and a store owner who expects that money to land.
By Rémi Corson · June 16, 2026 · 6 min read
If you want a genuinely free plugin with a full-featured core, Milo Subscriptions is the best starting point, and it is the only option here that also lets you sell subscriptions without WooCommerce.
By Rémi Corson · June 11, 2026 · 10 min read
Recurring donations are really just subscriptions, so Milo and a good donation plugin should work well together. As of today, they do. We’ve released a small, free connector that joins Milo Subscriptions with the Donation Platform for WooCommerce (WCDP) plugin, so you can take recurring donations that bill what the donor actually pledged. What it […]
By Rémi Corson · June 7, 2026 · 3 min read
If you run a subscription store on WooCommerce, you’ve probably paid the WooCommerce Subscriptions tax: $279 a year, every year, just to keep recurring billing running. Here’s the good news: you don’t have to keep paying it. Here’s the good news: you can move off it. Milo Subscriptions is a free, modern alternative, it’s on […]
By Rémi Corson · June 5, 2026 · 3 min read
This one started in our support inbox. A customer was building client sites in Breakdance and wrote in with a simple question: “Using WooCommerce Subscriptions, we’re able to set conditions in Breakdance based on ‘User Subscriptions’ to display or hide content. Are we able to do this with your plugin somehow?” Out of the box, […]
By Rémi Corson · June 3, 2026 · 8 min read