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Hi Nataliya

We cannot out of the box. But it should be fairly simple to achieve.

1. On a user, create a number of custom fields
   1. Subscription startdate
   2. Subscription enddate
   3. Subscription type (if you have more than one level of subscriptions that can be bought)
2. Create a product that is your subscription and give it a price
3. When a user wants the subscription, they would have to
   1. Create an account or login
   2. Buy the subscription product
   3. Pay for it using credit card
   4. Optionally: Use recurring orders to automatically renew after subscription ends, i.e. a year.
4. Now you need to do some custom
   1. Create a CheckoutDoneOrderIsComplete notification subscriber (These are fired when someone buys something)
   2. In this one, if the order contains an orderline with the subscription product, update the custom user fields with information on subscription dates and type
   3. Now you can see on a user what subscription was bought and when it ends
5. In user management create a group (Or one group for each subscription product)
6. Custom again
   1. Create a userloggedin notification subscriber
   2. In this one, if the user has a valid subscription, add the corresponding user group to the user that logged in.
   3. Now the user is member of a group that is related to the subscriptioin
7. Use discount module and/or price matrix, permissions etc. based on that user group to provide benefits for users with this kind of subscription

That is a relatively simple way to achieve the functionality. You need a couple of notification subscribers, and thats it.

BR Nicolai