You can easily create a subscription for a digital product on your Shopify store using the Ongoing Subscriptions app.
Ongoing lets you create subscription plans for digital products, such as magazine subscriptions.
You can certainly create an annual subscription plan for 4 issues which will renew automatically, on the Ongoing app.
Ongoing lets the customer buy a subscription to a certain amount of issues, and automatically charges them on a repeat basis.
Ongoing will also allow you to tag the customers who are subscribed to your publication so you can isolate them which makes marketing and fulfillment much easier.
We would be happy to set this up for you; we also offer complimentary design customizations to make sure the subscription widget looks exactly how you would like it.
For the method of getting the digital issue to them, I have a couple ideas in mind I would love to discuss with you, and see which one best suits your needs.
Ongoing offers amazing customer service with in-app chat support.
Feel free to try out Ongoing Subscriptions today and our customer support team will help get you set up in a couple minutes. We’re always available to answer any questions you might have so feel free to get in touch if you need anything at all!