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Using WooCommerce Subscriptions? Need to test automatic payments on a staging site?
By default, when WooCommerce Subscriptions detects a change in a site's URL, it switches to Staging Mode. In Staging Mode, all subscriptions are forced to use manual renewals. This prevents accidental, duplicate renewal payments being processed by staging sites.
On occasion, there is a need to process automatic payments on staging sites, generally for testing.
This plugin can be used to trigger automatic payments for specific subscriptions when Subscriptions is in Staging Mode.
- Download the latest version of the plugin
- Install & activate the plugin
- Define a
WCS_UPSTAGED_SUBSCRIPTION_IDSconstant - Set its value to a JSON encoded array of subscription IDs (
int's) - it needs to be JSON encoded to avoidPHP Warning: Constants may only evaluate to scalar values errors
Automatic renewal payments will then be triggered for those subscription IDs.
define( 'WCS_UPSTAGED_SUBSCRIPTION_IDS', json_encode( array( 123, 5813, 2134 ) ) );
While the WCS_UPSTAGED_SUBSCRIPTION_IDS constant can be defined anywhere, your site's wp-config.php file is often the best place for defining this type of constant.
The plugin will only trigger automatic payments when:
- the site is in Staging Mode, it does nothing when the site is in Live Mode
- a
WCS_UPSTAGED_SUBSCRIPTION_IDSconstant is defined - the
WCS_UPSTAGED_SUBSCRIPTION_IDSconstant is a JSON encoded array
If those conditions are met, when a scheduled renewal event occurs for a subscription in the WCS_UPSTAGED_SUBSCRIPTION_IDS array, this plugin will trigger the automatic renewal payment process.
If you find an problem or would like to request this plugin be extended, please open a new Issue.
