Subscription auto-ship for chemicals + disposables + can liners, how do you set it up?
Restaurants reorder degreaser, sanitizer, dish detergent, can liners, and takeout containers every 2-4 weeks. If you don’t lock them in on subscription, US Foods or Sysco does. The Magento implementation:
- Subscription engine, Aheadworks Subscriptions & Recurring Payments, Mageplaza Subscriptions, or build custom on top of native Magento sales rule + cron. For Adobe Commerce, Adobe Commerce Subscriptions ships native.
- Per-restaurant cadence, buyer sets “ship every 14 days” on degreaser, “ship every 28 days” on 55-gallon can liners. Account page exposes pause / skip / swap / cancel.
- Net-30 + subscription, subscription order auto-generates on cadence, pulls the customer’s saved Net-30 terms (no card required). Resolve / TreviPay underwrites each recurring order.
- Drop-ship + subscription, degreaser ships from Diversey or Ecolab drop-ship feed, takeout containers from Dart / Solo / Pactiv. Subscription order fires drop-ship PO automatically; your warehouse never touches it.
- Smart cadence suggestion, after 3 manual orders of the same SKU at consistent intervals, surface a “Subscribe + save 5%” banner on the PDP and in the customer order history. Conversion uplift runs 15-30% in the data I see.
Brands to integrate the drop-ship feeds for:
- Chemicals: Diversey, Ecolab, Spartan, Stearns, Procter & Gamble Professional.
- Disposables: Dart, Solo, Pactiv Evergreen, Sabert, Berry Global.
- Can liners: Berry, Pitt Plastics, Inteplast, Heritage.
Once a restaurant is on 4-6 active subscriptions, churn drops below 5% per year. That’s the recurring-revenue base that makes a foodservice distributor sellable at a 3-5x multiple.