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Memberships and digital access, billed on Shopify

Courses, memberships, connected devices and premium content have no box to ship. What they need is precise control over who has access, when it starts, and what happens the moment a charge fails.

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4.1×
Average months retained vs monthly one-off buyers
38%
Of failed charges recovered before access lapses
1 day
Typical setup for a first plan
24×7
Merchant support, every day of the year

Built for access, not shipments

Four capabilities that decide whether a digital subscription renews or quietly lapses.

Access control

Access that starts exactly when it should

Activation is rarely at checkout. It can be after a device is set up, when a course opens, or the day a trial ends. Loyal separates the charge from the entitlement, so you decide who gets access to what and when it begins.

Delayed activation, trial-to-paid, seat counts, device limits.

Self-service

Management where the subscriber already is

Nobody thinks of themselves as managing a subscription. They are keeping access to something they use. Upgrading, downgrading, changing a card or reactivating happens inside your own app or portal, on your own branding.

Embedded portal, upgrade and downgrade paths, reactivation.

Billing off the app stores

Keep the revenue the app stores take

App-store commission is a fixed tax on every digital renewal. Billing recurring plans on your own storefront moves that margin back to you, and gives you the customer record, the payment method and the retention tooling with it.

Web checkout, Shop Pay and wallets, one customer record.

Recovery and retention

A failed card should not end the membership

Involuntary churn is the largest single loss on digital plans, because nothing physical is missed until access disappears. Loyal retries on your schedule, emails a one-tap update link, and can hold access through a grace period while the charge is recovered.

Dunning schedules, grace periods, reason codes, win-back offers.

One subscriber record, not four

Digital businesses usually hold the same person in several systems at once, each with its own id. Loyal keeps the commerce record whole, so entitlements, billing and history sit against one subscriber.

Fragmented today

  • StorefrontXJ8921
  • LMS or appLMN456
  • App storeTQZ738
  • Support deskW4Y9K2

With Loyal

One subscriber, ABC123

Plan
Premium, annual
Access begins
At device setup
Entitlements
Active
Payment method
Visa, ending 3286
Lifetime revenue
$1,240
Last charge
Recovered on retry 2

Illustrative example. Loyal holds the commerce and entitlement record; your LMS, app or device platform reads from it.

Categories we see most

Each has a different moment where access has to switch on. The plan model below is the one that usually fits.

Software and tools

Seats change as teams change, so quantity has to be editable mid-cycle.
Seat-based, prorated

Hybrid plans

When hardware and access are sold together

Connected products sell a device once and access forever after. Loyal handles both halves in one plan, so the device ships, the membership begins at setup, and the two stay linked for support and cancellation.

One plan covering a one-time device and its recurring membership

Access held until setup is confirmed, so nobody pays before they can use it

Device and membership cancelled together, with support seeing both

Seat and device limits enforced from the same subscriber record

Digital brands on Loyal

Quotes and figures below are illustrative until each brand signs off.

All customer stories
eLearning

Course access on enrolment, billing on the storefront

Enrolment opened access; the plan renewed on the same checkout as everything else.

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Connected fitness

Membership starts at setup, not at purchase

Delayed activation removed the refund requests from customers billed before delivery.

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Paper goods

Quantity edits cut cancellations from overstocking

Customers halved their box instead of leaving when the cupboard was full.

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Questions from home brands

The ones that come up on almost every call.

Yes. A first-order override lets the opening shipment carry a starter kit or dispenser while every renewal ships only the refill, on the cadence you set.

You define swap groups and whether prices must match. The customer moves to the next stage or size inside the same subscription, keeping their schedule, discount and billing date.

Quantity and interval are both editable from the portal, and the cancellation flow offers a skip, a smaller box or a longer interval before it accepts the cancellation. Reasons are recorded so overstocking shows up as its own pattern.

Yes. A bundle plan holds multiple items, bills once and ships together, while each item can still be swapped, paused or resized on its own.

Loyal retries on a schedule you control and emails a one-tap update link, so a routine delivery is not lost to an expired card. Recovered revenue is reported against attempts.