Is WooCommerce Subscriptions Compatible With WPML?

How It Works

WPML links translated versions of a product together as one logical product with multiple language representations. A subscription created at checkout is tied to the underlying product and the customer's own language/locale setting at the time, and WPML's WooCommerce Multilingual add-on handles keeping the subscription's translated content (and, importantly, its emails) consistent with the customer's language going forward.

Where This Needs Attention

• Renewal emails sending in the wrong language if the customer's language preference isn't being read correctly at the time the renewal order generates — worth testing directly rather than assuming.
• Pricing consistency across translated product versions. If different language versions of a subscription product have separately editable prices, a mismatch between them (rather than the price being explicitly the same, or deliberately different per market) can create confusing or unfair billing depending on which language a customer originally checked out in.
• My Account subscription management pages need their translated strings to actually cover the WooCommerce Subscriptions-specific UI, not just core WooCommerce text — check that the specific language files include this plugin's strings.
• Currency-per-language setups (a common WPML pattern, showing a different currency per language) interacting with subscription renewal amounts — test this combination directly, since currency-switching-plus-subscriptions carries its own caveats covered separately.

How to Verify It Properly

1. Complete a full subscription purchase in each language the store supports, confirming the correct price, terms, and confirmation email language.
2. Trigger a renewal (manually, for testing) and confirm the renewal email sends in the customer's language, not the site's default.
3. Check the My Account subscriptions screen in each language for any untranslated strings specific to WooCommerce Subscriptions.
4. If currency varies by language, test that combination specifically against the caveats covered in multi-currency support.

See custom WooCommerce development for a multilingual subscription setup that needs custom translation work or logic beyond WPML's standard integration.