In your Firmhouse project, you have a Getting Started menu with a video guide. The guide follows the same steps as this article, so you can also follow the video if that format works better for you. 🤗

You control which products and variants you want to offer for subscription. To sync your catalog, simply tag your products in Shopify.

When tagged, your products will automatically show up in the Products tab of the Firmhouse portal.

In Firmhouse, go to Plans from the sidebar. Here, you can set up different shipping frequencies for your subscribers — for example, “Every 2 weeks” or “Every 2 months.” These plans will appear to customers when they add products to their cart or manage their subscriptions on the My Account page.

You can also set a discount percentage for each plan. This percentage determines the final product price for customers who subscribe to it.

If you want to offer the same selling plans for all your subscription products, you may create your plans in the Ungrouped plans section:

However, if you want to have specific plans apply to specific products (collections), we advise you to create Selling plan groups first and then create plans for each selling plan group.

🛍️ How to work with selling plans and selling plan groups
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Once your plans are created, from the Firmhouse sidebar, go to Apps.

The plans are now created in your Shopify store, and you can proceed with adding the "Add subscription to cart" interface on your product detail pages in the next steps.

Now it's time to add the subscription options to your product detail pages, so your customers can add them to their cart. There are two ways to do this:

🧩 Which PDP widget should I use for my business?

If you have specific wishes for your subscription widget that the Firmhouse standard widget does not cover, you can also build your own. The article below covers the general guidelines to get you started.

🛠️ Build or modify your existing custom subscription widget

Enable the two supporting app embeds, which ensure the local payment method checkouts will work as expected:

Because Shopify doesn’t fully support iDeal, Bancontact, and SEPA for subscriptions, you’ll need to adapt your cart and/or checkout to allow customers to take out subscriptions with these payment methods.

If you're not on Shopify Plus, you will have to add a second "Go to checkout button with iDeal/Bancontact" to your cart. With the 2-button setup, customers will have to decide from the cart page whether to pay with iDeal/Bancontact or CC/PayPal when they reach the checkout page.

If you are on Shopify Plus, you can add a checkout widget that enables customers to switch between SEPA and Card payments directly in the checkout.

In your Shopify theme editor, enable the Checkout Button Injector. You can configure when to show the SEPA checkout button, the CC/PayPal checkout button and the regular Shopify checkout button.

We recommend you use the Button Display Mode "Two buttons for subscriptions". This will ensure you show 2 buttons for subscription and mixed carts while keeping your existing button and checkout behavior for one-time purchases.

💡 Checkout Button app embed settings explained

If you are on a Shopify Plus plan, you can add a custom checkout widget directly to your cart. This widget, called the "Local Payment Method Switcher," allows your customers to toggle between two payment options during checkout:

Follow these steps to integrate the "Local Payment Method Switcher" app block:

This allows you to integrate Firmhouse's subscription options and enable payment methods like iDeal and Bancontact directly in your checkout flow.

When powering subscriptions with Firmhouse on Shopify, you must make some changes to your Shopify payment settings and Firmhouse payments configuration. Once done, your customers will have three variations of the Shopify checkout that offer different payment methods, depending on what the customer is purchasing.

A standard setup will look like this:

The default and easiest option to power PayPal and CC subscriptions is via Shopify Payments. If that is not a viable option for your company, Shopify offers some alternatives: Supported payment gateways for Shopify Subscriptions

In your Shopify Payments configuration, you will have to add Mollie-iDeal and/or Mollie-Bancontact as Additional Payment methods to support subscription checkouts with these payment methods.
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Don't worry! Enabling these additional payment methods won't make iDeal and/or Bancontact show twice in your one-time purchase checkout.

📋 Detailed instructions on how to enable Mollie-iDeal and Mollie-Bancontact in Shopify
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Configure your Mollie account and site profile as a payment provider in Firmhouse.