This guide gets Listeo Subscriptions installed and shows you how it fits into your site, so you can start selling auto-renewing listing packages. It’s our own extension and costs almost 4 times less than WooCommerce Subscription plugin ($79 year vs $279).

You can check landing page of Listeo Subscriptions and purchase it there.

Heads up: it does not work with booking payments, paid claim listing, paid ads placement or Dokan. For those you need to use regular one-time payments WooCommerce checkout.

You can view the Listeo payment flowchart here →

What this plugin does

Listeo Subscriptions turns your Listeo listing packages into recurring (auto-renewing) subscriptions. The best part: you do not need WooCommerce Subscriptions to make it work.

It does more than listing packages, too. The same billing powers memberships: you can lock any part of your site behind a recurring subscription, so only paying members see it. That part is covered in its own Paywall & Membership article.

  1. Recurring payments for listing packages

    Listeo Package Subscription
  2. Paid Membership & Paywalls
    Paid Membership Package
    Locked Content on Front-end

Your site keeps working the way it does today. Your normal WooCommerce package products and your Listeo package entitlements stay exactly as they are. The plugin simply adds recurring billing on top, handled by a hosted payment provider.

You choose one active payment provider at a time, set globally for the whole site. The supported providers are:

  • Stripe Direct
  • Paddle Merchant of Record
  • Polar Merchant of Record
  • Dodo Payments Merchant of Record

Each payment provider offers multiple payment methods (credit cards, Klarna, PayPal etc.). Check what each of them offer:

Before you begin

Make sure your site meets these requirements:

  • A working Listeo theme site with Listeo Core active (minimum version 2.0.48).
  • WooCommerce active.
  • Paid listing packages already set up in Listeo Core.

Note If Listeo Core or WooCommerce are missing or too old, the plugin shows an admin warning. Update or activate them first, then come back here.

Install the plugin

Installing is just like any other WordPress plugin:

  1. Go to Plugins > Add New in your WordPress admin and upload the plugin zip file.
  2. Click Activate.
  3. That is it. On activation the plugin sets up its database tables and background tasks automatically. You do not have to do anything for that part.

Where to find it

After activation, look in wp-admin under the Listeo add-ons / Listeo settings menu for an item labeled Listeo Subscriptions. If the Listeo menus are not present on your site, it falls back under the WordPress Settings menu instead.

The settings screen has five tabs:

  • Settings – choose and configure your payment provider.
  • Products – mark listing packages as recurring and connect them to provider prices.
  • Paywalls – lock content behind a recurring membership and manage membership packages.
  • Diagnostics – check the health of your setup.
  • License – activate and manage your license key.

About the license

Tip If you purchased yearly plan and won’t renew after a year – no worries – existing subscriptions and live payment flows keep running even without an active license. Only settings editing and updates are locked, so customers are never affected.

The big picture: how it all fits together

Here is the whole journey in five steps, so you know where you are headed:

  1. Activate the plugin and your license.
  2. Choose and configure your payment provider (Stripe or a Merchant-of-Record provider).
  3. Create a matching product and price in that provider’s dashboard.
  4. In the Products tab, mark a listing package as recurring and paste the provider’s price ID.
  5. Customers buy the package, get billed automatically, and you manage everything from one place.

Important Before you pick a provider, read Stripe vs MoR article. It explains the difference between Direct Stripe and a Merchant of Record provider (Paddle, Polar, Dodo). That choice affects taxes, payouts, and who is the seller of record, so it is worth understanding first.