Payware

Subscriptions

Recurring billing that runs itself.

Define products and prices, subscribe a customer, and Payware charges each period in advance, retries failed renewals and tells your server what happened.

The billing lifecycle

  1. Create the catalog

    Products with prices in RON, EUR or USD, billed every day, week, month or year, or every N of them.

  2. Subscribe a customer

    One or more items, an optional trial, and the customer's stored card. The first period is charged up front.

  3. Renewals run on schedule

    Each renewal charges the next period. A failed payment is retried, then the subscription ends up unpaid.

What you can do

Trials

Start with a trial period or end date. Nothing is charged until it ends.

Several items

Put more than one price on a subscription, with quantities.

Prorated upgrades

Move to a more expensive plan mid-period and pay the difference for the rest of it.

Pause and resume

Stop collecting for a while and resume now or on a date.

Cancel your way

Cancel immediately, or at the end of the period the customer already paid for.

Webhooks for every change

Created, updated, paused, resumed, canceled, trial ending, payment succeeded or failed.

Read the details

The billing guide explains retries, periods and proration. The subscriptions guide covers every action.

Create your first subscription

Use a test key and watch the webhooks arrive.