&lt;p&gt;You can use the subscription feature to offer customers the ability to subscribe to your gallery before purchasing products or instant download media. The subscriptions that you create will be available for purchase from the Products page in the gallery. There are two types of subscriptions available.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To Add a New Subscription&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Subscription Type:&lt;/strong&gt; Choose your subscription type.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Duration Subscription&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Customers who subscribe to this subscription type are able to purchase products or downloads for any media that has product types that are available for this subscription. Customers will not able to use a subscription if it has expired.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Credit Subscription&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;This subscription type is similar to the &amp;ldquo;Duration Subscription&amp;rdquo;, but instead of checking for the expiration date, the system will check for available credits to use. The available credits are the customers Subscription Credits minus the used credits. The customers can&amp;rsquo;t use their subscription when their remaining credits are zero.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; If the product type is a delivery type then the customers will only need to pay for the shipping cost and not the media cost. If the product type is NOT a delivery type, then the customers will not be charged during the checkout process. Therefore, Stockbox recommends that you use the subscription product for &lt;strong&gt;instant download product types &lt;/strong&gt;only, to avoid the customer having to pay for shipping charges upon checkout.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Subscription Name&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Name of subscription. This name should not contain any spaces or invalid characters.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Subscription Description&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Description of the subscription. Use this field to describe this subscription. The system will use this description in the gallery instead of the subscription name.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Subscription Price&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Subscription price.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Subscription Period / Credit Number&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Depending on Subscription Type selected, the system will display the Subscription Period or Credit Number field. If the subscription type is Duration, then the Subscription Period will be shown. Otherwise the Credit Number will be shown. If the Credit Subscription Type is selected the system will display&amp;nbsp; the &quot;Expire After&quot; field to allow you to set the number of days after the purchase that the subscription will remain valid.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Available on Product Type&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Tick the desired product type for this subscription. The customers are only able to purchase or download any media that has this product type assigned to it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Click on the &lt;strong&gt;Submit&lt;/strong&gt; button to add the new Subscription.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Manage your Subscription&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To &lt;strong&gt;Delete&lt;/strong&gt; an existing subscription click on the &lt;img src=&quot;images/admin/delete.gif&quot; alt=&quot;delete&quot; width=&quot;16&quot; height=&quot;16&quot; align=&quot;top&quot; /&gt; Icon.&lt;br /&gt;The system recommends that you should set the subscription status to &quot;Hidden&quot; instead of deleting it from the database. This will prevent missing data issues.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; subscribers for a desired subscription click on the &lt;img src=&quot;images/admin/users.gif&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;users&quot; width=&quot;16&quot; height=&quot;16&quot; align=&quot;top&quot; /&gt; Icon &lt;br /&gt;With this function you are able to view sales reports for the subscribers. The system also calculates the photographer&amp;rsquo;s commission, if customers used their subscription to purchase or download a photographer&#039;s media.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To move a Subscription&#039;s position up or down in the display list, click on the &lt;img style=&quot;vertical-align: top;&quot; src=&quot;images/admin/up.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Up&quot; /&gt; or &lt;img style=&quot;vertical-align: top;&quot; src=&quot;images/admin/down.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Down&quot; /&gt; respectively. This is the order that the system will use to display the Subscriptions on the &lt;strong&gt;Products&lt;/strong&gt; page of the gallery.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To &lt;strong&gt;hide&lt;/strong&gt; a subscription from users, click on the &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Active&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; hyperlink in the &lt;strong&gt;Status&lt;/strong&gt; column. Customers are not able to purchase a subscription when its status is &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Hidden&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To activate a &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Hidden&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; subscription, click on the &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Hidden&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; hyperlink in the &lt;strong&gt;Status&lt;/strong&gt; column.&lt;/p&gt;
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