Subscription / Membership – 1 billing, multiple deliveries of changing products

Shopify Apps

Topic summary

A merchant selling a bi-monthly magazine needs a subscription setup with:

Requirements:

  • Prepaid annual billing (every 12 months) with auto-renewal
  • Bi-monthly deliveries (every 2 months)
  • Automatic product rotation for each shipment (Product A → B → C, etc.)
  • 6 issues delivered per 12-month billing cycle

Recommended Solutions:
Recharge, Appstle, or Skio were suggested as advanced subscription apps capable of handling this complexity.

Current Status:

  • Appstle tested but confirmed it only supports product swaps per billing cycle, not per shipment
  • Merchant is now testing Recharge as the most promising option for automating product rotation every 2 months
  • Discussion remains open pending Recharge testing results
Summarized with AI on October 28. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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Hi,
We are selling issues of a magazine every two month.

I want to have a selling plan for product A with a prepaid billing + auto-renew, an order delivery frequency of every 2 months and billing frequency every 12 Months.

I want to swap the product A to product B after the first fulfillment, means after 2 months. Then, after another 2 months, the costumer should get product C and so on. After 12 months, the costumer gets charged for another 12 months to get the next 6 issues.

Is that possible with a subscription or membership app?

Thanks for you support!

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Yes, what you’re trying to do is possible, but it requires an advanced subscription app. I recommend checking out Recharge, Appstle, or Skio. You’re looking for a setup with prepaid annual billing, bi-monthly deliveries, and rotating products per shipment—which is a bit more complex than standard subscriptions.

Recharge may be the best bet to automate product swaps every 2 months. Appstle is also very flexible if you’re looking for a budget-friendly option.

Be sure to ask support directly about rotating product logic they can usually help set it up if not natively available.

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Hi Moshbray,

Thank you for your support! Yes, that’s exactly what we need.
I’m testing Appstle for a view days now, but unfortunately they don’t support product swaps per shipment, but only product swaps per billing.

I’ll try my luck with Recharge and will come back here. Fingers crossed!

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