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Overview

Leverage the Bold Subscriptions APIs to create a subscription-focused business model with your customers in mind. Bold Subscriptions enables you to generate recurring revenue and increase customer loyalty, and our APIs give you the ability to easily get started, customize, and scale with your subscriptions implementation.

To build with Bold Subscriptions APIs, your store must use Shopify Checkout.

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The content in this section of the Developer Documentation applies only to Bold Subscriptions.

If you are looking for Bold Subscriptions V1 (sometimes called Recurring Orders) documentation and API specifications, refer to our archived documentation.

How do I get started?​

Refer to the Bold Subscriptions Getting Started Guide to install and begin using the Bold Subscriptions API.

What are some example use cases?​

  • Create convertible subscriptions that let merchants swap out an initial product for a different one (e.g. a coffee maker converts to a coffee subscription).
  • Apply a discount on the selected order count for loyal customers by using webhooks to listen for order count, which triggers a price change.
  • Build a custom, unique-to-you customer portal that allows customers to add items, pause, and cancel their subscriptions.
  • Build custom reports that allow you to analyze the success of your subscriptions by viewing metrics such as customers by product, paused subscriptions, or number of orders before cancellation.
  • Send the store owner an SMS message as soon as a customer cancels their subscription by listening for the correct webhook, and connecting to a third-party service such as Twilio.

How big of a project is this?​

Customization projects with the Bold Subscriptions APIs range in complexity, time, and effort. For example, programmatically adding items to a subscription is a relatively simple task for an experienced developer. By contrast, creating a unique customer portal from scratch is a more complicated and labor-intensive process. Many Bold customers choose to work with Bold’s experienced agency partners to create the perfect customer portal.

If you have questions about making your ideas a reality, reach out to our Bold Partners Team.

Where to next?​

Learn more about foundational Bold Subscriptions concepts.

Get started with customizing your Bold Subscriptions implementation using the API.