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# How to Create your First Manual Subscripton

**Subscriptions** shows all the active **customer subscriptions** created from your Plans — think of it as your live record of who's subscribed to what. From here, you can view and **manage** each customer's billing cycle, update or pause their subscription, and track its status **(active, paused, or cancelled).**

### Step 1: Open the Subscriptions Section
In the left-hand menu, click **Subscriptions** under **Plan**. This is where all your subscriptions are created and managed.


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### Step 2: Click Create Plan
In the top-right corner, click **+ Create subscriptons** to start managing your first subscription .


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### Step 3: Choose How Customers Get Charged

After clicking Create plan, a pop-up asks you to pick one of two options:
###### Option 1:
* **Auto-charging subscription rule (Most popular choice!):** The customer's card gets charged automatically every time, using payment methods like Shopify Payments, Shop Pay, Stripe, and others.
###### Option 2:
* **Recurring invoices:** The customer gets a bill each time and pays it themselves — it's not automatic, but it works with more payment methods.



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### Step 4: Fill In Your Subscriptions Details
      After **choosing** option of you**r own choice** you can proceed with the step:
1. **2. Contract details** – Set next order date/time, currency, and status.
2. **3. Selling plan** – Choose how billing works:
* **Pay as you go** – charged each delivery
* **Prepaid** – pays upfront for multiple deliveries


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Setting the Delivery Frequency:
**Delivery Frequency** and **Delivery Interval** together decide how often the subscription delivers — for example, setting Frequency to **1** and Interval to **Months** means the customer gets a delivery once every month.
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### Step 5: **Products Selection**
* Click **Browse products** to pick which product(s) this subscription applies to.


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**Select** your product and click **Add**


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### Step 6: Orders:
**1. Minimum number of orders** – Locks in a minimum number of billing cycles before the customer can cancel/pause.
**2. Maximum number of orders** – Sets how many billing cycles run before the subscription auto-cancels.



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### Step 7: Select **customer**
**Click** on select customers and you come across the **list of customers:**
![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/a/9/5/5/a9552c769f21a000/image_1493x71.png)

**You can scroll and select your customer.**

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### Step 7: Add Details
1. **Delivery** – Fill in the customer's delivery address (Address 1, Address 2, Country, City, Zip).
2. **Shipping and delivery options** – Choose how shipping is handled:
* **Shipping rates** – Uses your store's existing shipping settings
* **Custom shipping** – Set a custom name and price just for this subscription


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Once all the details are filled in, click **Create subscription** to finish setting it up.

### You can see your subscription.

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In this way you created your **Subscriptions** and manage it according to yourself.
There is an article on **managing subscription** you can review it **"**[**Manage subscriptions**](https://help.wikiguide.link/en/article/how-to-manage-shopify-subscriptions-131luva/?bust=1787130961936)**"**