Firmhouse can now be used in combination with Shopify Checkout and Shopify Subscriptions natively. This works with all subscription payment methods that Shopify supports natively, like credit/debit cards, Apple/Google Pay, and PayPal. In addition as Firmhouse we add the option to use local payment methods for subscriptions on Shopify Checkout.

This native Shopify integration is currently in private beta and our support and onboarding team will guide you in integrating your Shopify shop with Firmhouse. This page explains the ins-and-outs of how the integration works, what is and what isn't (yet) supported and explains how to set things up.

Firmhouse adds the capability to your Shopify store to sell your products on subscriptions. When the Firmhouse app is installed on your Shopify store, you can use the Firmhouse Portal to create subscription plans and pricing policies for them.

When subscription Plans are set up in your Shopify store via Firmhouse Portal, you can then move onto implementing subscription options user interface into your Shopify theme. When that's done, you're good to sell subscriptions! 🎉

After subscriptions have been checked out by your customers, Firmhouse's billing logic will kick in and ensure your customers are charged at the right moments. And that failed payment and payment dunning flows are followed.

If customers check out with a payment method natively supported by Shopify Subscriptions (cards, PayPal), then Firmhouse calls the right subscription payment APIs in Shopify, just like other Subscription apps on Shopify. If you want to offer local payment methods like iDeal and Bancontact, then Firmhouse has a special additional layer to support this, built on native Shopify Checkout.

To manage your customer's subscriptions, you can use the Firmhouse Portal. Your customers can also use the Firmhouse Self Service Center to manage their subscriptions. These features include things like pausing, cancelling, modifying products, and more. The Firmhouse Self Service Center can be linked to your storefront so you can provide a seamless experience to your customers.

Firmhouse allows your customers to check out your product's subscription plans via local payment methods like iDeal and Bancontact.

This is done by configuring a supported payment provider like Mollie or Adyen in your Shopify store and in your Firmhouse project. In your Shopify store you can then activate the supported local payment methods on your Shopify Checkout as payment options. When a subscriptions is checked out via a local payment method, Firmhouse's own subscription engine will take care of billing, order generation, and subscription management.

In this private beta period there are a few steps that have to be performed by the Firmhouse support and onboarding team. See below which steps are performed by Firmhouse and which steps you can do yourself as merchant.

In your Shopify store or page builder you need to implement that a Product's Selling Plans are in some way made available to your customers on your storefront to be added to their cart.

This typically happens by implementing a code snippet that presents the available subscription Selling Plans on your Product Detail Page as a dropdown or selection widget.

We've added a guide to the Firmhouse Developer Docs on implementing Firmhouse on your cart and Checkout using Shopify selling Plans.

In addition, Shopify has a general-purpose guide for developers on how you can add SellingPlan choices to your product detail pages and carts: https://shopify.dev/docs/storefronts/themes/pricing-payments/subscriptions/add-subscriptions-to-your-theme

For local payment methods to be visible on Checkout, the cart line items need to be updated to special local payment Selling Plans that Firmhouse will generate for you.

If you are on Shopify Plus, then the Firmhouse integration will ensure that on Shopify Checkout the right payment methods are shown and that the right Selling Plans are updated in the Shopify cart depending on which payment method gets chosen.

If you're on a regular Shopify plan:

When you're on a regular Shopify plan (not Plus) and you want to offer local payment methods like iDeal and Bancontact, you need to add an additional "Checkout with iDeal/Bancontact" button to your cart page or cart slide-out. This button converts the subscription plan cart line items into special selling plans so that Shopify shows local payment methods on Checkout.

Follow the following section on our Developer Docs to learn how to add a Checkout button to your store that allows customer to pay for their initial subscription order via local payment methods: Customizations for using SEPA based payment methods during checkout

Here's an overview of common capabilities, their status (completed, in development, or on the roadmap), and if they work with local payment method checkouts.

✅ = supported

🚧 = currently in progress

🔜 = next up

📍 = roadmap