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• Go to Settings ➡️ EEW Subscriptions ➡️ Licence
• Paste your key and click Activate
• Confirm the status badge shows Active

Pro plugin + license & Free plugin users

• Go to Settings ➡️ EEW Subscriptions
• Enter your Stripe Publishable Key and Secret Key
  • Use test keys (pk_test_... / sk_test_...) until you’re ready to go live
  • Use live keys (pk_live_... / sk_live_...) when you are ready to go live
• Set your currency (e.g. GBP)
• Save settings

Pro plugin + license & Free plugin users

• In your Stripe Dashboard ➡️ Developers (often down the bottom) ➡️ Webhooks, click Add endpoint/destination
• Select ‘Your Account’ (likely already selected) and use the default API version
• Select the following events:
  • customer.subscription.created
  • customer.subscription.updated
  • customer.subscription.deleted
  • invoice.created
  • invoice.paid
  • invoice.payment_failed
  • invoice.overdue
  • payment_intent.succeeded (Pro only)
  • payment_intent.payment_failed (Pro only)
  • then select Continue ➡️
• Select ‘Webhook endpoint’ and Continue ➡️
• Set the Destination name field value to label this webhook endpoint (something memorable and usually with the site name/connection will usually do)
• Set the Endpoint URL field value to: https://{{ your site url here }}/wp-json/eew-subscriptions/v1/webhook and then Create Destination (note the https, if you ain’t using https, message me and explain to me why you ain’t and I’ll tell you why you’re wrong 🙂‍↕️💃).
• Copy the Signing Secret (whsec_...) of the newly created Webhook and paste it into WordPress admin dashboard ➡️Settings ➡️ EEW Subscriptions ➡️ Webhook Secret.
  The Signing Secret can be found at Stripe Dashboard ➡️ Developers (often down the bottom) ➡️ Webhooks ➡️ Select the newly created desitination ➡️ Destination details

Pro plugin + license & Free plugin users

• Back in your Stripe Dashboard and go to Product catalogue ➡️ Add product
• Fill in the details:
• Under Pricing, click Add a price and configure:
  • Pricing model – select Recurring
  • Amount – e.g. £9.99
  • Billing period – Monthly / Yearly / Weekly / Custom
  • Currency – must match the currency set in the plugin
• Click Save product
• On the product detail page, copy the Product ID, it starts with prod_ (e.g. prod_ABC123). You’ll need this in the next bit.

Pro only: Repeat for each tier or plan you want to offer. Each plan that customers can subscribe to needs its own Stripe product.

• In your WordPress admin dashboard go to EEW Subscriptions ➡️ Settings ➡️ Products tab
• Click + Add Product
• Fill in the row that appears:
  • Product ID – paste the prod_... ID from Stripe
  • Label – the display name customers will see on the subscription form (e.g. Monthly Hosting – £9.99/mo). This is your own label; it doesn’t need to match the Stripe product name exactly.
  • Subscribe Page (optional) – select the WordPress page that contains the [eew_subscription_form] shortcode or /eew Manage Subscriptions block for this product. If set, this is where the “Subscribe to view” notice will link to subscribe for gated content restricted to this specific product.
• Repeat for each product
• Click Save Changes

Note: A subscribe page per product is optional, if left blank the plugin falls back to the default subscribe page set under the Pages tab. If you only have one subscription form for all products, setting the default is sufficient.

Pro plugin + license & Free plugin users

• Create a WordPress page for each of the following and add the relevant shortcode

• Once all of above are created go to Settings ➡️ EEW Subscriptions ➡️ Pages and assign each created page to its corresponding role (Note a specific page for One-off payments doesn’t need to be assigned like subscription pages do).
• Hit Save Changes.

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• For full page/post restriction – on any post or page, find the eew Subscriptions meta box in the editor sidebar via Page/Post tab (not Block tab) on right hand side ➡️ Subscription Restriction, select the required product, and save. Non-subscribers will see a “Subscribe to view” notice instead of the content
• For block specific content restriction place a /eew Subscriber Content block in your page and then place the blocks/content only subcribers of a certain product can see inside of that. Don’t forget to specify which subscriber products a user must be subscribed to in the the Block tab of the editor sidebar under Restriction Settings ➡️ Required Products ➡️ Toggle on/highlight one or multiple subscription products

test

• Use a Stripe test card to complete a test subscription or payment
• Verify a WP user account is created for the customer
• Check the Manage Subscriptions page loads correctly when logged in
• Confirm webhook events appear in your Stripe Dashboard

go live

• Replace test Stripe keys with live keys in Settings
• Update the Stripe webhook endpoint to use your live mode webhook secret (pk_live_... / sk_live_...)

Block references

All four blocks are found in the block inserter under Widgets ➡️ EEW Subscriptions or can be filtered in all blocks search with /eew. Select a block in the editor to reveal its controls in the right-hand panel. The panel is split across two tabs: Block (settings and content) and Styles (colours, typography, spacing, border).

Shortcode references

The following are examples of common shortcode usages for each plgin feature.

[eew_subscription_form product="prod_ABC123"]

[eew_subscription_form product="prod_ABC123,prod_DEF456,prod_GHI789"]

[eew_subscription_form
  product="prod_ABC123,prod_DEF456"
  plan_heading="Choose your membership plan"
  success_message="You're all set! Your membership is now active."
  success_link_text="Visit the Members Area"
  success_link_url="https://yoursite.com/members"
]

[eew_payment_form
  amount="9900"
  currency="gbp"
  description="One-off consultation fee"
]

[eew_payment_form
  currency="gbp"
  description="Donation"
  amount_heading="Enter the amount you'd like to contribute"
  success_message="Thank you so much for your donation!"
  success_link_text="Back to home"
  success_link_url="https://yoursite.com"
]

[eew_payment_form
  amount="9900"
  currency="gbp"
  description="Agency Bundle"
  metadata="source:share,promo_code:LAUNCH25"
]

[eew_manage_subscriptions]

[eew_manage_subscriptions heading="Your Active Memberships"]

[eew_payment_form
  amount="9900"
  currency="gbp"
  description="Agency Bundle"
  metadata="source:share,promo_code:LAUNCH25"
]

[eew_subscriber_content product="prod_ABC123"]
  <p>This content is only visible to active members. Thanks for subscribing!</p>
  <!-- Any HTML, other shortcodes, or block-rendered content goes here -->
[/eew_subscriber_content]

[eew_subscriber_content product="prod_ABC123,prod_DEF456"]
  <h3>Premium Downloads</h3>
  <p><a href="/downloads/guide.pdf">Download the full guide →</a></p>
[/eew_subscriber_content]

<h2>About this course</h2>
<p>This course covers the fundamentals of web development.</p>

[eew_subscriber_content product="prod_ABC123"]
  <h2>Module 1 — Getting Started</h2>
  <p>Video lesson goes here...</p>
[/eew_subscriber_content]