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title: "Quickstart"
description: "A recurring subscription is nothing but auto-renewal. J2Commerce’s Subscriptions and Memberships app allows you to create recurring subscriptions."
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# Quickstart

A recurring subscription is nothing but auto-renewal. J2Commerce’s Subscriptions and Memberships app allows you to create recurring subscriptions. If you create a recurring subscription, the customers can auto-renew their subscription plan.

## Example

The example given below assumes you have a store that sells hosting services and wants to collect $99 at the end of every 6th month.

### Step 1: Creating a product

- Go to the Article Manager and create a new article
- Move to the J2Commerce (J2Store cart) tab
- Select 'YES' to treat asa product
- Choose product type, either Simple Subscription or Variable Subscription.

![Simple Subscription Product](https://docs.j2commerce.com/images/docs/v4/assets/simple%20subscription%20%281%29.webp)

### Step 2: Setting up the price based on recurring

1. Now navigate to the Pricing section
2. Enter the price $99 in the price text box.
3. Next to the price text box, you can see two drop-downs. In the first dropdown, choose every 6th and choose the month from the second dropdown.
4. Set Never Expire to Subscription length.
5. Choose your user groups and save.

![quick start](https://docs.j2commerce.com/images/docs/v4/assets/pricing%20%281%29.webp)

## How to create a non-recurring (one-term) subscription plan?

Non-recurring is a single-term subscription in which the subscription will be terminated at a specific period and does not allow for auto-renewal. The subscriber will have to subscribe to the plan next time manually.

Let's see an example for a single-term subscription. For example, consider that you are providing service for $129 for one year.

### Step 1: Creating a product

1. Go to the Article Manager and create a new article
2. Move to the J2Commerce (J2Store cart) tab
3. Select 'YES' to treat as a product
4. Choose product type, either Simple Subscription or Variable Subscription.

### Step 2: Setting up the price based on non-recurring

1. Now navigate to the Pricing section
2. Enter the price $129 in the price text box.
3. Next to the price text box, you can see two drop-downs. In the first dropdown, choose every, and choose the year from the second dropdown.
4. Set 1 Year to Subscription length.
5. Choose your user groups and save.

![non recurring](https://docs.j2commerce.com/images/docs/v4/assets/pricing1.webp)

Watch the video here:

[![Watch the video](https://img.youtube.com/vi/D7-7EOzovqM/hqdefault.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7-7EOzovqM)

## Creating 3-month subscription plan

Refer below screenshots for setting na on-recurring 3-month subscription plan

Choosing duration

![3 months duration](https://docs.j2commerce.com/images/docs/v4/assets/pricing2.webp)

On Frontend

![subscription plan](https://docs.j2commerce.com/images/docs/v4/doc-images/subscriptions-and-memberships/quick-start/3-months-subs-plan.png)

Watch the video:

[![Watch the video](https://img.youtube.com/vi/RtcGiQg6PG8/hqdefault.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtcGiQg6PG8)

## Creating 6-month subscription plan

Refer below screenshots for setting na on-recurring 6-month subscription plan

Choosing duration

![6monthsduration](https://docs.j2commerce.com/images/docs/v4/assets/pricing3.webp)

![6monthsplan](https://docs.j2commerce.com/images/docs/v4/doc-images/subscriptions-and-memberships/quick-start/6-months-subs-plan.png)

watch the video here:

[![Watch the video](https://img.youtube.com/vi/5BNGktLk_6k/hqdefault.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BNGktLk_6k)