How to Create WooCommerce Subscription Product via. REST API?

Question

I am able to find the REST API docs for WooCommerce: https://woocommerce.github.io/woocommerce-rest-api-docs/#create-a-product but am unable to figure out how to create a subscription product via. this API.

I am able to also edit a user's subscription once it has been created via the REST API: https://prospress.github.io/subscriptions-rest-api-docs/ however I don't see any documentation for how to create subscription products.

I am able to create a simple subscription product with the following code:

data = {
            "name": subscription_product_name,
            "type": "subscription",
            "regular_price": subscription_product_price,
        }
wcapi.post("products", data)

However, the price is set incorrectly, and I am unable to figure out the fields that would be used to set the signup_fee, billing period, and other various fields.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

The API endpoint for creating a WooCommerce product is http://www.example.com//wp-json/wc/v3/products The subscription length, interval... etc are passed as metadata.

Passing the below JSON can create a simple subscription product

{
    "name": "simple sub api",
    "type": "subscription",
    "status": "publish",
    "featured": false,
    "catalog_visibility": "visible",
    "description": "sub desc",
    "short_description": "sub short",
    "sku": "",
    "price": "10",
    "regular_price": "10",
    "sale_price": "",
    "date_on_sale_from": null,
    "date_on_sale_from_gmt": null,
    "date_on_sale_to": null,
    "date_on_sale_to_gmt": null,
    "on_sale": false,
    "purchasable": true,
    "total_sales": 3,
    "virtual": false,
    "downloadable": false,
    "downloads": [],
    "download_limit": -1,
    "download_expiry": -1,
    "external_url": "",
    "button_text": "",
    "tax_status": "taxable",
    "tax_class": "",
    "manage_stock": false,
    "stock_quantity": null,
    "backorders": "no",
    "backorders_allowed": false,
    "backordered": false,
    "low_stock_amount": null,
    "sold_individually": false,


    "meta_data": [
        {
            "key": "_subscription_payment_sync_date",
            "value": "0"
        },
        {
            "key": "_subscription_price",
            "value": "10"
        },
        {
            "key": "_subscription_trial_length",
            "value": "1"
        },
        {
            "key": "_subscription_sign_up_fee",
            "value": ""
        },
        {
            "key": "_subscription_period",
            "value": "month"
        },
        {
            "key": "_subscription_period_interval",
            "value": "1"
        },
        {
            "key": "_subscription_length",
            "value": "0"
        },
        {
            "key": "_subscription_trial_period",
            "value": "month"
        },
        {

            "key": "_subscription_limit",
            "value": "no"
        },
        {
            "key": "_subscription_one_time_shipping",
            "value": "no"
        }
    ],
    "stock_status": "instock"
}