Can iDEAL offer recurring payments for food box subscriptions?

Payments + Shipping & Fulfilment

Topic summary

A Dutch food box subscription company is seeking a recurring payment solution compatible with iDEAL through Mollie.

Current Challenge:

  • iDEAL is the most cost-effective payment method for their Dutch customer base
  • However, iDEAL only supports one-time purchases, not recurring/subscription payments
  • The company needs weekly auto-recurring billing functionality

Proposed Solution:
One participant suggests using a third-party app called ‘Shopify Stripe Checkout’ that enables iDEAL subscriptions through Stripe instead of Mollie.

Status: The discussion remains open, with the original poster asking if there have been any updates since similar requests were made years ago. No confirmation yet on whether the Stripe-based workaround meets their needs or if native Mollie/iDEAL recurring support has been developed.

Summarized with AI on October 29. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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We have a subscription model that we currently sell boxes of food.

Therefore, our users subscribe using weekly auto-recurring payments.

Since our company is based in Holland and all of our customers are Dutch, we are looking for a solution that uses the auto-recurring payments that is already available through Mollie with iDEAL.

iDEAL offers the cheapest payment method but unfortunately, doesn’t offer a recurring payment method, only a single purchase with using iDEAL.

I have seen several similar requests from a couple of years back, and I was wondering if there’s made any progress?

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There is an easy solution available, third party ‘Shopify Stripe Checkout’ that supports iDEAL subscriptions through Stripe.

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