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Creating a subscription
In the following example as featured in the figure below, a new subscription 'At-Home Delivery, 1 Month' is created under the article type 'At-Home Delivery' and the category 'At-Home Delivery Subscriptions' ; this type and this category are created normally and therefore are not different from any standard article type and category.
This new subscription is created as an article and is declared as a subscription by picking 'Subscription' in the 'Usage type:' menu, which only appears if 'Article Subscriptions' has been enabled in the Merchant Configuration Page.
As this new subscription is created, a screen with dedicated subscription options then appears :
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The 'Order subscription in advance first' tick box, if ticked, makes it possible to start the subscription even if payment for it was not registered. If not ticked, payment will have to be registered before starting the subscription.
Finally, upon validation of these options (as well as from a View Article Page), a screen showing the subscription's main properties is displayed :
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