Get a recurring revenue plan for your BigCommerce store. Subscriptions that renew.

Redefine Innovations builds BigCommerce subscription ecommerce: subscribe and save, recurring orders, payment retries and a subscriber portal, with developers, ERP engineers and marketers on one team.

Sleek Shop: 26% of revenue from Klaviyo flows on BigCommerce. Read the case study. Need a fully custom app? See BigCommerce app development.

Discover your subscription revenue potential.

Written for your store. No need to build with Redefine.

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Repeat buyers on BigCommerce

Buyers who come back pay the bills.

Three BigCommerce stores we run. This was email work, not subscription builds.

  • Sleek Shop

    26%

    Of revenue from Klaviyo flows

  • 28%

    Of revenue from email, Off Grid Knives

  • 5

    Lifecycle flows for past buyers, Glen-L Marine

  • 25+

    Years building ecommerce

  • 550+ projects delivered

    One team for store, ERP and email

Sources: Sleek Shop, Off Grid Knives, Glen-L.

Short answer

What is subscription ecommerce on BigCommerce?

Updated

Subscription ecommerce on BigCommerce means selling products that customers buy again and again on a set schedule. Redefine Innovations sets up subscribe and save, recurring orders, billing with payment retries and a subscriber portal, with a subscription app or a custom build. Redefine connects those orders to your ERP and email, so your team can track each renewal.

A shopper who buys coffee, vitamins or filters each month should not have to remember to come back. A subscription sends the order on time, takes the payment, and lets the buyer change plans on their own.

Renewals and payment retries come first. New plan types wait until those work well.

Three ways to run subscriptions on BigCommerce

Your plan says which one fits

ChoiceBest whenWhat you getWhere it stops
Subscription appYou sell simple subscribe and save itemsA quick start with set featuresCustom rules, B2B and ERP links
Custom buildYou need bundles, special billing or B2B rulesRules that fit your productsIt takes longer to build
App plus custom workAn app covers most of what you needThe app, plus portal, ERP and email linksOne team has to own both parts

What your plan looks at

  • [1] Products and how often buyers reorder
  • [2] Billing and payment retries
  • [3] Subscriber portal needs
  • [4] ERP and email data

Need help with checkout or payments too? See BigCommerce integration services, or all BigCommerce services.

A customer picks up her regular delivery box at her front door in the evening
The same box, on timeEach renewal ships without the buyer having to ask

Why subscriptions

Subscriptions create loyal customers for brands with products people buy again.

When the next order comes on its own, buyers stop shopping around. Your team can plan stock with less guessing.

See BigCommerce Klaviyo integration

One team

Four vendors become one team.

Four vendors

Split vendors leave gaps in the subscription flow.

  • App vendor

    Leaves gaps in billing

  • Designer

    May miss subscription pages

  • ERP partner

    Can miss linking the data

  • Email agency

    Focuses on other campaigns

  • Your reports

    One per vendor

No shared plan
Vendors to manage

4

One Redefine team

Engineers and marketers own the whole subscription flow.

  • Store

    One shared plan

  • Billing

    One shared plan

  • Portal

    One shared plan

  • Email

    One shared plan

  • ERP

    One shared plan

  • Reports

    One shared plan

One subscription plan
One owner, one plan, one renewal report

1

Subscription calculator

See your potential recurring revenue

Estimate how much repeat revenue subscriptions could bring in. Set your own numbers to see the result.

Your inputs

Your numbers

500
20%
$45

Estimate: repeat buyers x share who subscribe x average order value. This is an estimate using your numbers, not a promise.

Your estimate

Projected monthly subscription revenue
$4,500
Over 12 months
$54,000

Where subscriptions break on BigCommerce

Each gap links to the team that fixes it. B2B reorders by hand? See BigCommerce B2B development.

Let subscribers skip, swap and pause on their own.

A subscriber portal answers the asks that fill your inbox, so a busy month does not turn into a cancel.

What your subscribers see

An engineering mindset for ecommerce growth

We run growth the way engineers run software.

Redefine Innovations is an engineering company that does marketing. Developers, ERP engineers and marketers work on one team, so a fix reaches the store's code, not just the ad account.

Typical agency habit compared with our engineering habit
HabitPartnerEngineering habit
How changes shipOn opinionEach one is a test with a success number
Where fixes goStop at the ad accountDevelopers fix the store
When work is doneWhen it is sentEach task has a "done when" line
When problems surfaceIn the monthly reportAlerts fire the week a number drifts
Who owns the fixShared between vendorsA planned response and one owner

Case study: Glen-L Marine

Glen-L Marine brings past buyers back on BigCommerce.

Glen-L Marine needed to reach its past buyers and email subscribers. Redefine worked on the website, SEO, Google Ads and tracking, and moved email to Klaviyo with 5 lifecycle flows.

  • Glen-L Marine

    Welcome email

    Glen-L Marine welcome email built in Klaviyo
  • Glen-L Marine

    Cart follow-up email

    Glen-L Marine abandoned cart follow-up email
  • Glen-L Marine

    New arrivals email

    Glen-L Marine new arrivals campaign email

Real Glen-L Marine emails. This was email and repeat-buyer work, not a subscription build. Read the Glen-L Marine case study

How Redefine works

TheREDEFINEMethod

Build subscriptions step by step.

We would not launch a box program or new plan types before renewals and payment retries work well. Each step starts from your store data and ends with a check of renewals.

Get my recurring revenue plan

Your plan is written for your store, with no need to build with Redefine.

Why this approach matters

  • Work starts on the tasks that keep subscribers.
  • Less spend on features that can wait.
  • Each change is checked against renewals.
  1. Start here

    Step 1: Diagnose

    We study your orders to find the products people buy again and how often they reorder.

    You receive Subscription diagnosis report

  2. Choose what matters

    Step 2: Prioritize

    We rank features by value. Renewals and payment retries come before a box program or new plan types.

    You receive A ranked build roadmap

  3. Do the work

    Step 3: Deliver

    We set up the subscription app or custom build, billing and retry rules, and the subscriber portal, then connect orders to the ERP and email.

    You receive A tested subscription setup

  4. Check the result

    Step 4: Prove

    We measure renewal rates and payment results, and compare them with what we expected.

    You receive Renewal and payment report

  5. Keep improving

    Step 5: Improve

    We keep tuning the portal, subscribe and save offers and failed payment steps.

    You receive A checklist of next changes

What you receive

A subscription plan, a build roadmap, a tested setup and a renewal report.

Prepared for: your store

Your Scoped Recurring Revenue Plan.

Your plan shows which products suit subscribe and save, whether an app or a custom build fits, and what to build first. You get a written plan and help to put it in place.

  1. Part 1

    Products for subscribe and save

  2. Part 2

    App or custom build fit

  3. Part 3

    Billing, retry rules and portal

  4. Part 4

    ERP and email data, and what first

A brand owner reads the cover of her recurring revenue plan
What is the REDEFINE Method?

The REDEFINE Method is Redefine Innovations' business-first framework for identifying business constraints, prioritizing improvements, delivering appropriate solutions, verifying outcomes, and sustaining improvements.

It has five stages: Diagnose, Prioritize, Deliver, Prove and Improve. For subscriptions, renewals and payment retries come before new plan types. Read the REDEFINE Method

How does Redefine handle costs and timelines?

Cost and timing depend on your products, billing and systems. We can plan the work in phases to fit your budget.

Your written plan shows the scope, the price and the timeline before any work starts.

Can existing subscribers be moved over safely?

Yes, with a plan. We map your current subscribers, their payment tokens and their renewal dates, then test the move with you.

How payment data moves depends on your payment processor and app, so we check that first.

Is a custom build or an app better?

It depends on your products, billing and ERP needs. We compare both against them and suggest the one that fits.

See BigCommerce app development

How is B2B reordering handled?

We can set up saved reorder lists, set intervals and account pricing tied to buyer accounts.

B2B buyers then reorder without calling sales. See BigCommerce B2B development

Who works on my subscription setup?

Developers, ERP engineers and marketers work on your setup as one team.

Together they build the store, billing, portal, ERP and email parts.

What happens after the subscription system is live?

We watch renewals and failed payments, fix problems and plan the next changes with you.

Alerts flag a drop in renewals or a rise in failed payments, and one owner at Redefine plans the response with your team.

Ready to turn buyers into subscribers?

Get a scoped recurring revenue plan

Tell Redefine what you sell and how often customers reorder. You get a written plan that shows how subscriptions should work for your products, which tools fit, and what to build first.

A tea brand owner fills in a short form to ask for a recurring revenue plan
  • One team for the whole flow
  • A written plan
  • 25+ years in ecommerce
  • 550+ projects delivered

Get my recurring revenue plan

Tell us what feels stuck with repeat orders. We read every request.

  1. 1Send your request
  2. 2Redefine reviews what you sent
  3. 3A short planning call about your products
  4. 4You get your scoped plan

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