Installation is three steps: install the app, create your first offer, and add the widget block to your product template. The free plan needs no credit card and ships the whole subscribe and save job, capped on active subscribers rather than on features.
Before you start
- You need to be the store owner or a staff member who can install apps and edit themes.
- Your theme needs to support app blocks on the product template, which every Online Store 2.0 theme does.
- The app requires Shopify's one-time subscription APIs access grant, which Shopify issues to the app rather than to your store. There is nothing for you to approve separately.
What permissions the app asks for, and why
| Permission | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Read and write products | Attach and manage subscribe and save offers, which are selling plan groups on your products. |
| Read and write your subscription contracts | Read the live subscriptions, and apply skip, pause, resume, reschedule, discount and cancel changes. |
| Read and write customers | Show the subscriber on their subscription, and send the secure Shopify link a buyer uses to update a failing card. |
| Read customer payment methods | Find the card behind a subscription, so Shopify can email the buyer a secure link to update it. |
| Read themes and files | Detect where the Subscribe & Save block sits, and resolve your theme logo so the customer portal matches your storefront. |
| Read orders | Show real per-delivery status in the portal timeline: placed, processing, fulfilled. |
Install the app
Step-by-step
Install and approve
Install the app from the Shopify App Store and approve the permissions in your Shopify admin. The app opens under Apps → Miko Subscribe & Save.Create your first offer
Open Offers and create your first subscribe and save offer. See Creating a subscribe and save offer for what each field does.Add the widget block
In your Shopify admin go to Online Store → Themes → Customize, open a product template, and add the Subscribe & Save app block where you want the delivery options to appear, usually just above the add-to-cart button. Save the theme.Check the product page
Open that product on your storefront. You should now see a one-time option and a subscribe option with a delivery frequency menu.
Check it is working
Open a product that is attached to your offer. The one-time option and the subscribe option should both show, with the subscription price and a frequency menu.
What to do next
The optional cart labels block
A second theme block, Subscription cart labels, adds subscription wording to cart and drawer line items on themes that do not show the selling plan name by default. It targets the page body rather than a section, so you add it once from the theme editor and it applies everywhere the cart renders.
- Style the widget and the portal: The Subscribe & Save widget and The customer portal.
- Review your defaults under Settings.
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