Hi, does anyone know if they ever ended up developing this app? Having a similar issue.
So I’m curious why the spring, summer, fall, and winter are all different subscriptions. Why not one annual one with a swap every quarter?
Has this app been released yet? It sounds like exactly what we need for managing our magazine.
Can we be added to your list of customers when this app is available? Jeff
So the store you set up makes no sense to me - it doesn’t function like an app and I can’t test it. We have tried 2 different apps now: Seal Subscription and I forget the name of the other. We are currently using Seal Subscription and our issue is that if we go with a month to month they have to pay ever time and half of them just sign up to get 1 at the discount and then defer or cancel their subscription. It also will not allow us to swap varients so say April for June. If we go with the pay for the whole year at one time option it leaves the shopify ticket open for the whole year. Then it wants to put the whole year’s quantity on the packing slip instead of just the one that we are shipping. Nothing about any of these apps works for a magazine. If they can’t work as a magazine, I don’t see how they even work for one-off products that might change or have variables. Has anyone had a different experience? I’ve spent a year going back and forth with these two different apps and way more money on it than I’ve made with the product. Its crazy that Amazon can figure this out but no private person with Shopify can seem to make an app that functions well.
As an editor of a quarterly print mag, I’ve been searching for a solution for so long too and have yet to find one. My latest brainstorm: Use shopify subscriptions to capture the initial subscription order, and then use Shopify Flow to populate the order page with the 4 upcoming issues included in the subscription (each as separate products). To track paid-by-check subscriptions, you’d just create a new customer and order, including the 4 upcoming issues. To pull the mailing list, you’d search by issue number and partially fulfill every order that includes that issue. 
Of course, that would leave the order page a mess, given that every active subscriber would have an unfulfilled order, and you’d always have to be sure to update the Flow to reflect which 4 issues are included in the latest subscription. Even so, do you think that would work at all? I cannot believe how much time I’ve spent trying to figure out a solution that’ll work. It’s so frustrating, and I feel like every magazine is simply making due with whatever imperfect subscription system they’ve rigged together with bubblegum and paperclips.